East China’s Jiangsu province is stepping up its efforts to renovate old residential quarters to increase people’s sense of gain and happiness.
Wangxiang Xincun Community in Guangling District, Yangzhou City was built in the late 1980s, with dilapidated infrastructure and detached exterior walls. No garage was built in the community, so many residents took up green space and built tin-roof sheds to stack household items.
Wangxiang Xincun Community in Guangling District, Yangzhou City
Tin-roof sheds were built
on the former grape trellis
and the elderly have no place
for rest and activities
The residents are full of expectations when informed that the government will renovate these old communities this year. The community also held a symposium to solicit suggestions in advance.
Feng Qingnian, Deputy Party Branch Secretary of a Residential Community in Yangzhou
We will refresh the exterior walls and stairways
and appropriately increase parking spaces
Yangzhou will continue to renovate 164 old communities and scattered buildings with an area of 1.73 million square meters.
Drainage renovation, road surface repair, building renovation and environmental beautification will be implemented on a customized basis to greatly improve the living environment of 170 thousand residents.
Recently, Xuzhou released 52 projects in 8 categories for people's livelihood in 2022, including improving the construction of the epidemic prevention and control capacity system, community medical services and public-good emergency first aid training.
Gao Xingqun, Director of Grassroots Health Division, Xuzhou Municipal Health Commission
We will accelerate the construction
of rural regional medical and health centers
and community hospitals
improve the level of medical services
strengthen basic public health services
and provide 55 services in 14 categories
Xuzhou will also build a supply-demand platform that integrates on-site recruitment, online recruitment, and live-streaming recruitment, implement a mass entrepreneurship action plan, optimize financial services for technology SMEs, improve the level of urban and rural basic pensions, and improve the residents’ ability to spend their later years at their homes.
