“Urban renewal is a development project, a livelihood project, a carbon reduction project and a cultural project.” On December 23, Song Chunhua, former Vice Minister of the Ministry of housing and urban rural development, former president of China Real Estate Association and President of China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited(601668) Institute of principles, said at the 22nd China Housing Fair.
Under the new pattern of China’s urban and rural construction, urban renewal has great prospects. Asked about the focus of the real estate industry, Song Chunhua gave an example to the reporter of the daily economic news that housing, cultural innovation, pension and other fields can be done.
“Under the new pattern, we should have a comprehensive understanding of the connotation of urban renewal. It is not the original transformation of old cities, nor simple real estate development, but a development mode under the new form.”
urban renewal is an important way to improve the quality of urban agglomeration
Song Chunhua pointed out that China’s urbanization rate will reach 64% in 2020, which is close to the turning point of 70%. “This is the positioning of the big urban development trend, that is, China is in the middle and late stage of high-speed urbanization.”
In 2006, the outline of the eleventh five year plan first proposed “taking urban agglomeration as the main form to promote urbanization”. Now the status of the “main form” of urban agglomeration is gradually clear and its role is becoming increasingly prominent. Since then, the report of the 18th and 19th CPC National Congress and the national new urbanization plan (2014-2020) have also mentioned the issue of urban agglomeration for many times. The 14th five year plan has more clearly pointed out that we should rely on urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas to promote the coordinated linkage and characteristic development of large, medium and small cities and small towns.
“The so-called urban agglomeration is not a group of cities.” Song Chunhua said that urban agglomerations should have several basic characteristics: superior location and good natural conditions, one or more core cities, accurate industrial system and industrial cooperation, developed infrastructure, convenient transportation and communication networks, unified and coordinated governance mechanism and planning guidance, We should have a relatively large population, economic agglomeration and cultural influence.
According to Song Chunhua, there are two inflection points in China’s urbanization development: one inflection point is that after the urbanization rate exceeded 30% in 1999, China entered the stage of rapid development; The second turning point is that the urbanization rate reaches 70%. After exceeding 70%, the urbanization rate curve will be stable and will not have the previous high speed.
“In the middle and late stage of the rapid development of urbanization, the urbanization rate is around 70% of the second inflection point. Urban agglomeration is the main form of new urbanization in China. The implementation of urban renewal is an important way to improve the urban quality of urban agglomeration.”
Song Chunhua proposed that when the urbanization rate is close to 70%, all countries should transform from incremental to stock, that is, from the original large-scale incremental epitaxial development to the development mode of paying equal attention to stock improvement and incremental structural adjustment, and implement urban renewal action.
urban renewal is a carbon reduction project, which cannot be demolished and built on a large scale
The life of a city is a process of constant metabolism, renewal and development.
“Urban renewal involves material and hardware iteration, innovation of humanistic elements, upgrading of service supply, transformation of operation and maintenance mode, improvement of governance accuracy, etc. under the background of the new pattern, we should have a comprehensive understanding of the connotation of urban renewal.”
Song Chunhua believes that urban renewal is a development project, a livelihood project, a carbon reduction project and a cultural project.
In August this year, the Ministry of housing and urban rural development issued the notice on preventing large-scale demolition and construction in the implementation of urban renewal (Exposure Draft), which proposed to strictly control large-scale demolition, large-scale construction and large-scale relocation, so as to ensure stable supply and demand in the housing rental market. At the same time, it is emphasized to retain and utilize the existing buildings, maintain the scale of the old city pattern and continue the urban characteristics.
Song Chunhua believes that urban renewal should enable the city to develop more fully, focus on the systematic treatment of “urban diseases”, protect history and culture, shape characteristic features, and build a complete community suitable for modern life through ecological restoration and functional improvement, so as to make the city more livable, resilient and sustainable.
Urban renewal is a livelihood project. Efforts should be made to solve the problem of unbalanced development. The focus is to transform and improve the function of the stock area of “three old and one village”. Old buildings should be protected, transformed and utilized as much as possible to eliminate large-scale demolition and construction.
Song Chunhua said that our previous community was incomplete and had many shortcomings. We should make our city more livable, resilient, sustainable and achieve fuller development.
In terms of urban livable construction, Song Chunhua proposed to meet the people’s higher requirements for living environment and working, living and leisure conditions. The first is to ensure the basic supporting facilities, including water, electricity, gas, road and network; The second is to improve infrastructure, that is, install elevators, public activity facilities, parking, property rooms, etc; The third category is to improve public service facilities, including elderly care, childcare, canteen, culture and other facilities. Adjust, improve and support the house type, functional layout, complete sets of equipment and aging facilities of residential buildings according to local conditions, so as to better meet people’s modern living requirements.
“Urban renewal is a carbon reduction project, which must not be demolished and built”, Song Chunhua stressed again, including some old buildings. It’s a pity to demolish them.
He proposed that we should carry out energy-saving transformation of old buildings, improve the thermal insulation performance of envelope structures and doors and windows, and reduce energy consumption; Renovate the heating system, transform coal-fired boilers, use clean energy, implement central heating, and improve heating efficiency and quality; Eliminate and update backward parts and use water-saving and energy-saving equipment.
“We should also promote green building materials. In the whole process of the development of construction industry and real estate industry, building materials are the big head, especially cement and glass. We should produce low-carbon, environmental friendly and recyclable building materials to realize the low-carbon production of building materials.”
The Ministry of housing and urban rural development has previously issued a document that all localities should strengthen the protection of history and culture and resolutely stop destructive acts in urban renewal and transformation. All localities should speed up the special work of delimiting historical and cultural blocks and determining historical buildings, timely check and make up for deficiencies in accordance with the principle of delimiting as much as possible and protecting as much as possible, so as to ensure the timely identification and publication of urban areas and buildings with protection value.
Song Chunhua said that urban renewal must strengthen historical and cultural protection, tap local culture, inherit context, creatively develop and transform urban cultural resources, shape characteristic features, highlight urban cultural spirit, and form a sense of cultural belonging and identity of urban residents. Through urban renewal, open up more public spaces, implant public art, form new memory places and dynamic spaces, and make the public art space become an all-weather art museum free of appointment and the first classroom of youth aesthetic education, so that the majority of audiences can interact with it, resonate with it and enjoy immersive art experience.
“Urban and rural construction has entered a new stage of high-quality development. We are full of confidence and expectations for its development, because we have significant institutional advantages, long-term economic improvement, social stability and harmony, a good foundation for urban hardware and a gradual improvement in management level. We must maintain strategic concentration, be good at understanding and grasping the law of urban development, do a good job in top-level design and be firm Hold the bottom line thinking, take the initiative to meet challenges, run your own affairs well, and constantly create a new situation in urban and rural construction. ”
“There is great potential for urban renewal.” Song Chunhua said.
(Daily Economic News)
