On August 23, the State Council Information Office held a series of themed press conferences on "Promoting High-Quality Development" in Beijing. Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Ni Hong, Deputy Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Dong Jianguo, and Deputy Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Qin Haixiang attended the presentation and answered questions from reporters. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xin

Promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market

       The real estate market situation has attracted much attention. Ni Hong, Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that at present, the supply and demand relationship in the real estate market has undergone major changes, and the market is still in a period of adjustment. With the implementation of various policies, the market has undergone positive changes. Judging from the process of urbanization development in my country and from the people’s new expectations for good houses, the real estate market still has great potential and space. We must strengthen our confidence, implement policies according to the city, strictly implement them, and promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market.

       Accelerating the construction of a new model of real estate development is the fundamental solution to prevent and resolve real estate risks and achieve high-quality real estate development. Ni Hong said that building a new model of real estate development can be summarized into four aspects: First, in terms of concept, deeply understand the positioning of "houses are for living, not for speculation", and build good houses that meet the new expectations of the people. Second, in terms of system, the government should mainly meet rigid housing needs and the market should mainly meet diversified and improved housing needs. Third, in terms of system, reform and improve the real estate development, transaction and use system to lay a solid institutional foundation for the transformation and development of real estate. Fourth, in terms of factor allocation, a new mechanism for linking elements of "people, housing, land and money" will be established.

       Dong Jianguo, deputy minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development will work closely with relevant departments to further strengthen top-level design while summarizing the relevant pilot practices in the previous period, firmly grasp the basis of allowing the people to live in peace, accelerate the reform and improvement of basic systems such as commercial housing sales and land, finance, and taxation, promote institutional innovation through reform, promote new model construction through reform, and promote industrial development through reform, and strive to promote high-quality development of real estate.

Increase the construction and supply of affordable housing

Increasing the construction and supply of affordable housing is a high concern for urban families with housing difficulties, new citizens and young people. Dong Jianguo introduced that the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and relevant departments have strengthened overall planning and guided local governments to focus on the construction of allotment-based affordable housing on the one hand and accelerate the solution of housing difficulties for the working-earning group; on the other hand, the supply of allotment-based affordable housing, and solve the housing problems of new citizens, young people and other groups in diversified and diversified ways such as "one bed, one room, one house".

According to data provided by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, in the first seven months of this year, the construction of affordable housing and urban village renovation resettlement housing nationwide has started and raised 2.35 million units (rooms), with an investment of more than 440 billion yuan.

Dong Jianguo said affordable housing planning is an important part of housing development planning. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development guides all localities to formulate five-year plans and annual plans for affordable housing based on the economic capacity of the region, real estate market conditions and housing needs of various disadvantaged groups, and to formulate five-year plans for affordable housing based on needs and annual plans for local conditions.

In terms of system improvement, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development is guiding local governments to follow the national top-level design and local actual conditions, adhere to doing their best and doing what they can, and speed up the issuance of specific implementation opinions, management methods and supporting policies, and further refine and improve specific requirements such as guarantee objects, guarantee methods, guarantee standards, and allocation management.

Dong Jianguo said that for projects included in the planned construction this year, we must implement financial, taxation, land, finance and other support policies, accelerate the start-up and construction of projects, strengthen project quality and safety supervision, and carry out allocation and allocation as soon as possible. We must strengthen project planning and reserves, do a good job in the preliminary work of projects next and next year, and form a rolling project promotion mechanism of "implementing one batch, reserving one batch, and planning one batch". At the same time, in light of the local real estate market conditions, we actively promote the acquisition of existing commercial housing that has been built as affordable housing, promote the accelerated completion of acquisitions of projects with mature conditions, and timely allocation of rental and distribution.

In addition, we must also focus on the "good house" model. At present, various places have identified a number of affordable housing demonstration projects, and carried out the construction of "good houses" in accordance with the requirements of "green, low-carbon, intelligent and safe" to continuously improve the quality of affordable housing.

Create a livable, resilient and smart city

Implementing urban renewal actions is an important measure to transform the urban development model and achieve high-quality development. Qin Haixiang, deputy minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that it is necessary to systematically promote the construction of "four good" good houses, good communities, good communities and good urban areas.

"We must continue to renovate old urban communities and make efforts to solve the problems of installing elevators, parking, charging, etc. This year, our plan is to complete the renovation of more than 50,000 old communities. On this basis, we will promote the construction of a number of complete communities and promote the renovation of old blocks and old factories." Qin Haixiang said.

At the same time, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development will continue to promote the construction of the city's "inside" project, strengthen the construction of underground comprehensive pipelines and the renovation and upgrading of old pipelines, and strive to renovate all kinds of old pipelines this year for more than 100,000 kilometers. Vigorously promote the construction of urban lifeline safety projects, and through digital means, we can monitor the city's water supply, drainage, gas, heating, bridges, pipeline corridors and other municipal facilities in real time, so as to detect, warn and deal with safety hazards early, and ensure the safe operation of the city. Strengthen urban flood control, and this year, we will complete the rectification of flood-prone waterlogging sites in 100 cities and more than 1,000 waterlogging sites.

Ni Hong said that we should adhere to the principle of "the people's city builds the people, and the people's city serves the people", adapt to the new requirements of urban development entering the urban renewal stage, further deepen the reform of urban planning, construction and governance, establish sustainable urban renewal models and policies and regulations, and adhere to "physical examination first, update later". The problems found in physical examination are the key points to be solved in the update, and create livable, resilient, and smart cities, so that the people can live more conveniently, more comfortable and better in the city.