The General Office of the State Council issued the Guidance on the Comprehensive Promotion of the Renovation of Old Urban Communities

The General Office of the State Council has issued the Guidance on the Comprehensive Promotion of the Reform of Old Urban Communities (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), which calls for the comprehensive promotion of the reform of old urban neighbourhoods in accordance with the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, to meet the needs of the people for a better life, to promote the expansion of domestic demand for the benefit of the people, to promote the transformation of urban renewal and development methods, and to promote the development of high-quality economic developmentthe Opinions stressed that, guided by Xi Jinping's new era of socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics, we should fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress and the 19th Central Committee of the Second, Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 19th Central Committee, vigorously reform and upgrade the old urban neighborhoods, and make life more convenient, comfortable and better for the peoplestarting to renovate 39,000 old urban neighborhoods in 2020, involving nearly 7 million households;the "Opinion" requirements, clear the urban old community transformation tasks, focusing on the transformation of the old community completed by the end of 2000transformation content can be divided into basic classes, perfect classes, promotion categories 3 categories, local conditions to determine the transformation of content list, standardsscientifically prepare plans for the transformation of old urban neighborhoods and annual renovation plansold-age, health, care and other related parties involved in the old urban areas of various types of facilities to add or reform plans, as well as professional business units related to pipeline transformation plans, should take the initiative with the old urban community transformation plan, plan effective docking, synchronous lying forward implementationthe Opinions, we propose to establish and improve a special working mechanism for government co-ordination, block-by-block collaboration and joint management by various departmentsuse the "Internet plus co-construction and sharing" and other online means, to carry out various forms of grass-roots consultation, take the initiative to understand the residents' demands, to promote residents to form a consensusclear the main body of project implementation, promote the orderly implementation of the project, improve the long-term management mechanism of the communitythe Opinions, the establishment of a reasonable sharing mechanism between the government and residents and social forces for the transformation of fundsin accordance with the principle of who benefits and who contributes funds, actively promote residents to participate in the transformation of capital, through direct funding, the use of (re-construction, renewal) of special residential maintenance funds, transfer of community public income and other ways to implementincrease government support to integrate the transformation of old urban neighborhoods into secure housing projects, and the central government to grant financial subsidiessupport local governments to raise funds for renovation through the issuance of local government bondssupport the large-scale implementation of urban old community transformation operation subject to adopt a market-oriented approach, the use of corporate credit bonds, project income bills and other bonds financing, but not to assume the government financing functions, to eliminate the new local hidden debtcommercial banks provide credit support to enterprises and projects that implement the transformation of old urban neighborhoods in accordance with the lawthrough government procurement, paid use of new facilities, the implementation of assets rights and interests, and other ways to attract various types of professional institutions and other social forces, investment in all kinds of facilities in need of transformation design, transformation, operationimplement the tax relief policythe Opinions, streamline the approval items and links of the old urban district renovation project, build a rapid approval process, actively promote online approval, and improve the efficiency of project approvalperfect the standard system to adapt to the needs of transformationpromote the joint transformation of adjacent neighborhoods and surrounding areas, and strengthen service facilities and public spacesstrengthen the intensive mix edification of existing landthe Opinions stressed that the provincial people's governments bear overall responsibility for the reform of old and old districts in the region' cities and towns, strengthen overall guidance, implement the responsibilities of the municipal and county people's governments, and ensure the orderly progress of the workdo a good job of publicity and guidance, the formation of social support, the active participation of the masses of a strong 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