Changing the old look of the block to improve the happiness of living.
Harbin, Heilongjiang promotes the renovation of old residential areas, investigates fire hazards and improves environmental sanitation.
Changing the old look of the block to improve the happiness of living.
Upgrade infrastructure and transform old communities; Investigate fire hazards and ensure the safety of residents; Excavating stock resources and creating creative blocks … Since the theme education was launched, Heilongjiang Province has focused on the transformation of urban infrastructure and done a good job in people’s livelihood. The reporter visited Harbin and found that with the implementation of various measures, the city’s appearance changed, living conditions improved, and people’s lives became more convenient, more comfortable and better.
Red walls, green trees, benches and windmills, in front of the 80-meter-long "graffiti" wall, people put on various poses to take pictures and punch in. Many citizens and tourists came here and praised the "net red wall" of Hongqi Street in Xiangfang District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province.
"In the past, this area was a garbage transfer point that stinks and residents can’t avoid." Lin Shan, head of the Pearl River Community, said. Change the way of garbage removal, demolish the damaged wall and rebuild it, and organize residents to paint the wall art. Now, this garbage spot has become a punching place.
"The wall is still that wall, but the surrounding area is clean, and the artistic taste is raised, which is different. We old residents are also happy!" Rebecca, a resident of Zhujiang Community, lamented.
Since the education on the theme of studying and implementing the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era was launched, Heilongjiang Province has carried out field research, focused on people’s livelihood, given priority to solving people’s urgent problems, and continuously improved urban functions by transforming urban infrastructure. Recently, during a visit to Harbin, the reporter learned that the local government organically combined environmental remediation with the renovation of old residential areas, investigation of fire hazards, improvement of environmental sanitation, and promotion of industrial development, constantly improving people’s happiness in living, making efforts to build a livable and happy city, and taking various measures to realize the old look of old streets with a new look.
Listen carefully to the opinions of the masses
Transform and upgrade infrastructure.
"This new cement pavement is so good that it makes people feel bright." Standing on the newly paved concrete floor in the corner of the community, Wang Guihuan, a resident of No.248 Gogol Street, Harbin, was happy in his words. In the past, the community was a mess, with abandoned boiler rooms and small yards full of garbage.
"No.248 Gogol Street was built in 1977 and is a typical old community." Chen Haijing, secretary of the Party Organization of Struggle Community, said that after the heating was connected to the grid, the community’s own boiler room was abandoned and left in the community. Now, according to the residents’ opinions, fitness equipment has been added here, and the old boiler room has been transformed into a service center for the party and the masses, providing a place for the residents’ leisure life.
There is a large stock of old residential areas in Harbin, and the area of old residential areas that were built before 2000 in Chengjiu District alone reached 61.23 million square meters. "Old residential areas have low building standards, incomplete supporting facilities, lack of property management, and strong willingness of the masses to transform." The relevant person in charge of the Harbin Housing and Construction Department said.
This year, Harbin started 224 renovation projects of old residential areas, with an area of 10.93 million square meters, 42.2 kilometers of water supply network and 100 kilometers of aging heating network, and simultaneously implemented environmental remediation work such as demolition, power repair and network cable bundling.
No.248, Gogol Street, where Wang Guihuan lives, is the beneficiary community. "The old courtyard wall has been removed, and our residents have added 400 square meters of leisure space." Wang Guihuan said.
Putting the people’s urgent difficulties and worries in the first place, Harbin strives to make the environmental remediation work in the hearts of the people, listen carefully to the opinions of the people, listen to the voices of the people, gather public opinions, solve people’s worries, and handle complaints overnight.
"I hope to solve the problems such as hanging wires in disorder and the leisure and fitness area in the courtyard of the community together in the renovation." "The roof leaks and the sewers are often blocked, and I hope it can be solved." … Harbin has deeply integrated the environmental remediation work with the renovation of old communities, and made a thorough investigation of 1,630 buildings planned to be renovated in 2023, and held more than 210 public opinion consultation meetings, renovation plan review meetings and public opinion survey forums.
Carry out hidden danger investigation actions
Ensure that residents live and work in peace and contentment.
Smooth and spacious asphalt roads, freshly painted walls, rows of lilac trees, quaint and elegant Chinese pavilions … The clean environment of the petrochemical community in Xiangfang District is refreshing.
"Demolition of private buildings in the neighborhood, cleaning up the mess, and cleaning up the environmental sanitation, the change of our community is the boss." Wang Xiuyun, a resident of the community, lamented.
Behind this is Harbin’s efforts to improve the public sanitation of the community by combining environmental remediation with striving for a civilized city: comprehensively carrying out urban road cleaning and washing, floating debris cleaning, garbage daily cleaning, and carefully carrying out greening plant pruning and maintenance.
In Ningjiang Hutong District of nangang district, the fire rescue department of Harbin took the lead in jointly launching a special campaign to investigate fire hazards, demolishing illegal buildings that affected fire safety, clearing evacuation routes and safety exits, opening fire corridors, and making full use of idle boiler rooms to build community miniature fire stations and central pump rooms.
Harbin has made great efforts to ensure the safety of owners’ lives and residences through environmental improvement. At present, all the 171 hidden fire hazards have been rectified, and 60 small fire stations and 5,493 micro fire stations have been set up.
In order to put an end to the problem of "resurgence" and all kinds of messy phenomena coming back after the renovation of old residential areas, Harbin accelerated the property management work after the renovation of old residential areas, and hundreds of property residential areas led by party building emerged in the city to play a leading role in demonstration.
The fifth block of Honghe Community in Daowai District was built in the 1990s, with more than 1,500 households. Streets, communities, property companies and community committees have set up the Party branch of Minqiang Red River Fifth Block, forming a long-term management mechanism of co-construction and co-management.
"Residents complain less and the community atmosphere is getting better and better." Meng Xuebin, director of the Industry Committee of Honghe Fifth Block, took the lead in setting up a "volunteer service team" to help solve more than 20 problems such as underground pipeline maintenance, parking space division, roof repair of residential areas, replacement of security doors, and more than 1,500 "key things" around the people, such as dredging the water, repairing unit doors, replacing voice-activated lights, and repairing stagnant roads.
Perfecting function and improving quality
Create characteristic creative blocks
"Brother, 10 more kebabs!" "Boss, another beer" … In the evening, when the lights are on, the uniform business sheds on both sides of the road come into view, and the nightlife of Xingfu Road in Xiangfang District has just started.
There is a street with a total length of nearly 1 km outside Happiness Road Food, including more than 60 restaurants, which can taste the food of most famous catering brands in Harbin.
Through the environmental improvement work, Xiangfang District upgraded this road section, expanded the sales area, opened the food and beverage stalls, made unified food stalls, set up creative landscape sketches, and created a "street with food outside".
"Opening the external pendulum can increase the turnover by at least 30%, and the government has invited enterprises to cooperate and help us build a unified external pendulum business shed for free." Yang Jing, manager of a restaurant, said.
Harbin organically combines industrial development with improving the neighborhood environment, and strives to create a unique creative neighborhood through environmental remediation. Xiangfang District has become the first area to start the pilot project.
Xiangfang District mobilizes and organizes all the towns in the whole district to dig deep into the existing resources and advantages such as regional characteristics, historical culture, realistic foundation, industrial characteristics and commercial layout, and creatively transform the old urban areas through cultural creativity empowerment.
"Environmental improvement, especially after injecting cultural and creative elements, has changed the face of the messy areas that have long plagued people and become a popular punching place." Li Yafei, secretary of Xiangfang District Party Committee, said that Xiangfang District should pay equal attention to improving its functions and improving its quality in building blocks with cultural and creative characteristics, so as to revitalize it and promote the construction and renovation of the surrounding environment.
The dormitory area of the boiler plant has been transformed into a "living room for urban culture". Leisure blocks with the theme of TCM health preservation, Dongxing Manchu-style street with strong ethnic flavor and night market full of fireworks have emerged … Since this year, Xiangfang District has successfully created 14 cultural and creative characteristic blocks, which has become a punching place to attract citizens and tourists. (Reporter Zhu Dawei, Liu Mengdan)
