Cities carry people’s yearning for a better life and are related to the improvement of urban quality and urban competitiveness.
Urban renewal has become an effective way to enhance the overall functions of the city, improve the quality of life of residents, and enable the city to continuously adapt to the needs of future social and economic development.
When urban construction shifts from “is there” to “is it good or not”, each city is actively exploring how to better adapt to the needs of social and economic development based on actual conditions. Chongqing is "people-oriented", insists on functional transformation, and has embarked on a disruptive road to urban renewal.
The old concept
"With copper as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes." At the "2022 Chongqing Urban Renewal Theme Seminar" held on June 27, Yang Zhihong, member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Committee, used this sentence words to describe Chongqing’s urban renewal work.
In recent years, Chongqing’s urban renewal work has been frequently named and praised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development believes that “Chongqing’s urban renewal work has clear ideas, clear paths, and practical methods. Generally speaking, it is at the forefront of the country.”
In 2021 and 2022, Chongqing was selected as a model city for urban physical examination by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development for two consecutive years, and the "Chongqing Experience in Urban Physical Examination" was promoted nationwide; Yuzhong District and Jiulongpo District were successfully selected into the country's first batch of 21 urban renewal pilots... …
Behind this, first of all, it benefits from Chongqing’s breakthrough in the concept of urban renewal. The change in work policy from "demolition, replacement and retention" to "retention, replacement, demolition and addition" is exactly the implementation of the core of urban renewal and the people-centered development idea.
"Remain" - leaving behind buildings with protective value, leaving behind the pattern and texture of the old city;
"Reform" - transforming to solve the problem of urban functional decline, and increasing efforts to promote the redevelopment and utilization of idle land and idle buildings;
"Demolition" - demolishing illegal buildings and buildings that have been identified as dilapidated by professional organizations and without repair and preservation value;
"Addition" - making up for the shortcomings of municipal infrastructure and public service facilities, and building a 15-minute living circle for community residents .
After clearly prohibiting the "big demolition and big construction" model, Chongqing has implemented a refined and high-quality urban renewal model, paying more attention to integrated development with society, humanity, ecology, and economy.
At the same time, the accompanying "Chongqing Urban Renewal Technical Guidelines" was released, detailing the work content and standardizing the work process of urban renewal. It is the country's first urban renewal technical guideline.
"Urban renewal is currently in the development and transformation period, the policy improvement period, and the path exploration period. three phases are superimposed on . needs to break the existing 'system walls' and 'pathway obstacles' that are not conducive to urban renewal, and promote healthy urban renewal. Stable and sustainable development," Yang Zhihong said.
Breaking the Dilemma of Funds
In the advancement of urban renewal work, funding is an important issue. Funding for urban renewal must mobilize the active participation of governments, financial institutions, and social capital.
For example, in the Daijia Lane urban renewal project in Yuzhong District, the government invested 258 million yuan for the renovation and improvement of the area environment, municipal infrastructure, and public service facilities; residents successively invested nearly .1 billion , for the installation of elevators. , Improve the business format; after the project is completed, the district-level platform company will take the lead in cooperating with surrounding merchants to form a business alliance , and jointly be responsible for the later operation and maintenance management of the area.
According to Wu Geng, director of the Urban Human Settlements Environment Construction Division of the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Commission, as of the end of March 2022, Chongqing’s urban renewal pilot demonstration projects reached ,103 , and the total investment in projects was html worth 1.14 trillion yuan.
How to increase the intensity of urban renewal fund raising? Chongqing has not only established a special fund for affordable housing projects, a central budgetary investment fund, and a fund pool for urban renewal projects, but has also established urban renewal funds, policy financial institutions, and credit support models through government guidance.
Among them, the establishment of urban renewal funds is an effective way for many cities to solve the funding problem. Tianjin has established a 60 billion yuan urban renewal fund, Shanghai has established an 80 billion yuan urban renewal fund, and Beijing has established a 30 billion yuan urban renewal and development fund ... Local governments are vigorously introducing social capital to participate in urban renewal projects.
"This year, Chongqing will strive to complete the preparation of the urban renewal fund." Wu Geng revealed that the urban renewal fund uses municipal resources, introduces diversified social capital, invests in urban renewal projects in the form of equity, and solves the need for project matching bank loans. The issue of capital or funding requirements for the first-level development stage.
It is understood that the urban renewal fund adopts subscription system , and the actual payment is made in accordance with the project investment progress, which will not cause current investment pressure. At the same time, through a small proportion of subscriptions, multiple times of fund return can be achieved, solving the problem of project investment fund being tight.
Overcoming design difficulties
Through Chongqing’s practical exploration in recent years, Chongqing has completed a large number of urban projects. What is gratifying is that Chongqing’s urban renewal projects have successfully avoided the “sameness” effect and instead presented the characteristics of a hundred flowers blooming.
The urban renewal project at No. 56 Dongcun, Yuzhong District , integrates special B&Bs, cultural establishments, cultural exhibitions, creative markets, catering and leisure. , provides citizens with Chongqing-specific cultural experience services.
Nan'an District Tongyuan Bureau's Chongqing Time Town project focuses on "new finance" and supports the concepts of "new consumption" and "new culture" to create an open and shared model of urban historical and cultural urban renewal projects.
The Yubei District Huayuan area urban organic renewal project, with the theme of "One garden blooming with the fragrance of flowers all over the city", integrates the Huayuan community, starting from the three aspects of "living, working and traveling", built The new IP in the central city...
continues to make breakthroughs and innovations in design, and is another "sharp tool" for Chongqing's outstanding achievements in urban renewal.
"Design should have more vision and action in urban renewal." According to Xu Qianli, Party Secretary and Chairman of Chongqing Design Group, the city is transforming from extensive extensional expansion to high-quality connotative development . Chongqing's urban renewal construction concept has undergone a positive change, and cities and buildings have gradually shown a tendency to return to basic goals.
Chongqing urban renewal design, with the diversified, multi-dimensional, multi-level and colorful urban space and urban life, the urban space form that is deeply integrated with "mountain, water and city", and the accessibility, integration and convenience The sources of urban vitality are inseparable, and they all fully embody the idea of "implementing the new development concept of and being people-centered".
Xu Qianli introduced that every urban renewal project has different backgrounds and problems. This requires the design team to start from the different activities and specific needs of people, find the closest design points, and propose corresponding update strategies and methods to further solve the problem and ultimately provide design answers.
Breaking the pain of joint construction
Currently 03 Chongqing urban renewal pilot demonstration project, fully operational project 24 , partially operational project 8 , is in the implementation stage project 25 , planning and preliminary stage 36 .
Urban renewal is connected to people’s livelihood and development. Because so many aspects are involved, success is difficult to achieve by relying on any single force.
It is clearly mentioned in the "Chongqing Urban Renewal Management Measures" that the basic principles of urban renewal are "government guidance, market operation, reform and innovation, coordinated advancement, people-oriented, co-construction and sharing". Chongqing’s urban renewal is changing from a single government-led approach in the early years to a collaborative approach involving the government, investors, developers, residents and other parties.
Nan'an District follows the principle of "top leaders are responsible and flat management" and established a working group with the deputy district chief in charge as the team leader and relevant departments as member units. Through effective and accurate service guarantees, social enterprises are attracted to actively participate in the city renew. At present, the number of urban renewal projects involving social enterprises in Nan'an District has reached 5.
Urban renewal projects, through sharing and co-construction, have revitalized many small streets, alleys, and old communities.
"Jianrong Home" in Nanqiao Garden, Jiangbei District, is a community built in the late 1990s. Once upon a time, large areas of the exterior walls fell off and there was serious water seepage inside. The Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Committee actively guides social forces such as banks, property developers, district-owned state-owned enterprises, and social companies to participate in the investment and renovation of old communities, and is responsible for subsequent operations and maintenance. It has revitalized the stock of idle and inefficient housing assets, and connected the renovation of old communities with housing. Access to the rental market.
In Xingjiaqiao Community, Renhe Street, Liangjiang New District, residents and community streets worked together to implement the community's "Ten Livelihood Matters List" one by one and promote its completion. This community gives full play to the leading role of grassroots party organizations and mobilizes the masses to participate in the transformation project throughout the process. Whatever the masses need, they will change it.
"Urban renewal is closely related to everyone's life. It is not only a key strategy for high-quality urban construction in the new era, but also an important pillar of urban economic development and transformation." Chongqing UniversityVice President and Professor Liu Guiwen said.
The People's City is built by the people, and the People's City is for the people.
Chongqing urban renewal, people-oriented, breaking the situation and opening the way!
Source of article: Hualong.com
