Guiyang to improve renovations of buildings, communities

Guiyang – capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province – has undertaken a series of measures in the current year to improve its renovation of shanty towns, old residential communities and back alleys.

Support documents were issued to provide efficient designs and specific goals and methods for the renovation program. The city also drew up standard renovation procedures and established a project library, so departments could share data and resolve problems promptly.

The work on house acquisitions and compensation, as well as on land storage was also carried out in line with national and provincial policies to protect people's legal interests.

To better improve old residential communities, the city invited 238 specialist designers from nine design institutes to support the renovation work. Higher technical standards were also applied to improve construction drawing designs and implementation plans.

Guiyang has also refined its housing resettling models to satisfy the diverse residential needs of people who used to live in the shanty towns, further strengthening their sense of acquisition, belonging happiness and security.

To enable people to fully benefit from public services, the city undertook efforts to roll out more support facilities in terms of education, medical care, sports and transportation. It also moved to improve the infrastructure for water, electricity, gas, parking lots and new energy vehicle charging piles by making use of big data and artificial intelligence technologies.

In the renovation process, priority was also attached to the protection and utilization of cultural and historical heritage – by attaching modern functions to historical buildings – to demonstrate the city's commitment to modernization while retaining cultural characteristics.