Nanming takes steps to improve its residential environment

english.guiyang.gov.cn|Updated: 2021-05-18

Nanming district in Guiyang, the capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province, will renovate its shanty towns, old residential communities, back streets and alleyways in the coming years, in an effort to improve its residential environment.

In terms of shanty town renovation, Nanming set a target of renovating 1,090 households as a provincial-level task in 2020, but actually managed to complete the renovation of 1,900 households, giving it a completion rate of 174.3 percent.

The city-level renovation task was 16,585 households, and all the households had signed renovation contracts, with a completion rate of 100 percent.

In 2021, Nanming plans to renovate 10,507 shanty towns with a total area of about 2.23 million square meters.

At present, five shanty town renovation projects, including the second phase of Taiciqiao Prison and the first phase of the Beer Plant, have begun.

With regard to the renovation of old communities, Nanming has undertaken four old community reconstruction projects since 2019, with a total area of about 237,600 square meters, benefiting 2,869 households.

From 2021 to 2023, Nanming plans to start 19 old community renovation projects, involving 48,801 households covering 3.25 million square meters in total.

Among them, in 2021, it plans to start the reconstruction of seven old communities, including the Qingshan, Yutian and Xinglong residential communities. The projects involve 24,784 households and the renovation area covers 1.69 million square meters.

The renovation work primarily includes roads, greening, garbage collection and storage, underground pipe networks, communication, lighting, power supplies, walls and monitoring installations.

Additionally, Nanming will renovate 50 back streets and alleys within its jurisdiction in aspects like sanitation and cleaning, road occupation operation, private construction, parking, overhead pipelines, municipal facilities, wall facades, green landscapes, and night markets and stalls.