Multi-department and Multi-policy Promote Urban Renewal Press the "Fast Forward"

  The National Development and Reform Commission and other departments have recently issued plans to promote the construction of urban community service facilities. Embedding functional facilities and services such as old-age care and nursery in urban communities and community public spaces. At the same time, urban renewal has welcomed more policy support in construction and land use. Recently, the Ministry of Natural Resources issued policy guidelines, proposing to strengthen the planning and overall planning of urban renewal within the national spatial planning system. The reporter learned that this round of urban community embedded service facilities construction, its new building scale is expected not to be restricted by the planned floor area ratio index.

  The industry pointed out that land has always been a difficult problem in urban renewal. Recently, many departments have issued support policies, which are expected to usher in breakthroughs in composite land use and land allocation methods.

  The reporter recently came to Dongli South District of Tiantan Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, where the renovation has just been completed. I saw that the roads in the community were completely renovated, hardened and laid, and drying poles were installed in public areas, which significantly improved the overall living quality.

  The Dongli South District of the Temple of Heaven has been a building for more than 40 years. In recent years, there have been some problems that plague residents, such as falling off walls, aging water supply and drainage pipelines, damaged facilities in public areas, and disorderly parking. "The street will incorporate the renovation project of this community into the plan in 2021, start construction in October 2022 and complete it in October 2023." Li Junjian, deputy director of Tiantan Sub-district Office, introduced that this time, five high-rise buildings in the community were renovated, involving 594 households with a renovation area of 35,000 square meters. "It is mainly aimed at residents’ demands, including painting stairwells and fa? ades, updating water and sewage pipelines in the building, road paving, greening and reconstruction, and monitoring and installation of smart communities."

  Since the beginning of this year, urban renewal represented by the transformation of old residential areas has been accelerated. According to the data of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, in 2023, the country plans to start the renovation of 53,000 old urban communities, involving 8.65 million households. According to the data reported by local statistics, 1-mdash; In October, 52,800 old urban communities were newly renovated nationwide, benefiting 8.7 million households, and the operating rate was 99.6% according to the number of communities.

  At the same time, relevant departments have further supplemented the shortcomings of facilities and services to improve the urban living environment. Recently, the General Office of the State Council forwarded the National Development and Reform Commission’s Implementation Plan for Embedded Service Facilities Construction in Urban Communities, giving priority to big cities with an urban population of more than 1 million, and continuously improving community functions by embedding functional facilities and adaptive services such as old-age care, community feeding, housekeeping convenience, health services, physical fitness and so on in urban communities and community public spaces.

  “‘ Livable city ’ Construction has become one of the main goals of high-quality urban construction in China. "Zhang Jing, chief planner of China Urban Planning and Design Institute, said that community embedded service facilities are an important measure to realize residents’ access to high-quality community public services at their doorstep by paying attention to the development needs of" people "in" livable "cities and satisfying residents’ demand for community public service facilities from" whether they are available "to" good ".

  Zhang Yan, deputy director of the Department of Building Energy Conservation and Science and Technology of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that the next step will be to guide all localities to make overall use of existing resources, rationally determine construction projects and implement detailed community facilities in urban renewal. Among them, in the transformation of old urban communities, supporting facilities and living environment will be improved through supplementary construction, purchase, replacement, lease and transformation. In the construction of a complete community, we will focus on the shortcomings of "one old and one small" service facilities and implement a number of construction projects such as service stations for the elderly, nurseries and kindergartens.

  It is worth noting that urban renewal welcomes more policy support in construction and land use. Recently, the Ministry of Natural Resources issued "Guidelines on Planning and Land Policy to Support Urban Renewal (2023 Edition)", proposing to strengthen the overall planning of urban renewal under the guidance of land spatial planning. The above-mentioned implementation plan is clear. As a non-profit public service facility, the community embedded service facilities built by the government can relax the planning conditions and support the implementation of related projects in the pilot cities on the premise of conforming to the detailed planning of land and space and not breaking through the relevant national and local policy and technical standards and norms.

  Yang Jun, deputy director of the Space Planning Bureau of the Ministry of Natural Resources, said that municipal infrastructure, public service facilities and public safety facilities projects implemented to protect residents’ basic living needs and fill the shortcomings of the city can be considered without negative impact on the surrounding areas. The scale of new buildings can be considered without being restricted by the planned floor area ratio index.

  "Land has always been a difficult problem in urban renewal. Dealing with the problems left over from land history in some areas has become the first hurdle for urban renewal. After the renewal, there are also many specific operational problems such as the acquisition method of composite land or mixed land, land price calculation, service life and payment standard." Huang Zheng, a researcher at the Institute of Land Development and Regional Economy of China Macroeconomic Research Institute, said that the policies of relevant departments have been involved in these aspects, and it is expected to make a breakthrough in the disposal of historical issues, composite land use, land allocation methods, land tax collection and land price collection rules.

  Li Yujia, chief researcher of the Guangdong Housing Policy Research Center, said that the planning and use of land were faced with rigid control and it was difficult to adjust. If it is fragmented, it will lead to low land use efficiency. If the overall planning of urban renewal is strengthened within the national land spatial planning system, and the land use, function and floor area ratio control are coordinated, it will be beneficial to "fat and thin collocation", better integrate some inefficient land, free up space for urban renewal and mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties.

  Huang Zhengxue said that this round of urban renewal is different from the way of government-arranged, large-scale demolition and large-scale construction. It is necessary to establish a multi-agent collaborative model of "government guidance, market operation and public participation" to improve urban functions, improve urban quality and enhance urban development vitality. Therefore, this round of urban renewal pays more attention to environmental quality improvement and public space optimization. He suggested that in the next step, urban renewal needs more coordination of policies such as investment, taxation and land.