Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 11th, title: Checking the cause of the disease to make up for the shortcomings-the urban physical examination evaluation mechanism prescribes prescriptions for “urban diseases”
Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Youling
my country’s urbanization rate has reached 63.89%. With the concentration of population in cities, problems such as traffic congestion, environmental pollution, and lack of supporting facilities have gradually been exposed. How to solve the problem of “urban disease” in the process of transformation and development? Xinhua News Agency reporters conducted research in Chengdu, Chongqing and other places a few days ago to see how local areas manage “shortcomings” in cities.
Understand the demands of residents and draw up a list of “urban diseases”
“The width of the plank road is too narrow”, “I want to improve the neighborhood environment”, “Waste disposal needs to be transformed”… During the “micro-renewal” process of the traditional style area of Shancheng Lane in Chongqing, the masses expressed different demands through the 2020 urban medical examination mass satisfaction survey.
The reporter saw in Shancheng Alley recently that some buildings were demolished and an overhead layer was added. A plank road with a width of 1.5 to 2 meters was snaking, and the originally narrow earth plank road could be seen through the installation of glass; it was full of rubbish. The ruins of the city have been built into a “wilder garden” and are being upgraded and repaired.
Hu Wenqi, deputy director of the Human Settlements Department of the Chongqing Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Committee, said that based on the social satisfaction survey, Chongqing has formed a “urban development shortcoming list” and “urban disease list”, etc., and aimed at the urban shortcomings that the people are most urgently addressing. , Formed the “Urban Governance Project Plan”, and the time-limited sales number was resolved. At present, Chongqing has completed the questionnaire collection for the 2021 social satisfaction survey, covering all communities in the built-up areas of the main city metropolitan area.
The basis of urban physical examination is to give play to the main role of public participation in urban governance. In the past, urban development and construction were dominated by large-scale incremental construction; now, urban construction is shifting to stock quality improvement transformation and incremental structural adjustment. To shift from “has it” to “good or bad”, it is necessary to fully understand the residents’ demands and listen to the opinions of all parties.
At present, my country has basically established an urban physical examination evaluation mechanism, established a physical examination index system composed of 65 indicators in 8 areas, and formed an urban physical examination work method that combines urban self-examination, third-party physical examination and social satisfaction surveys.
The person in charge of the relevant work of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said that the results of the urban physical examination in 2020 show that the sample cities generally have over-populated central areas, unclear underground municipal infrastructure, insufficient refuge sites, and urban flood control and drainage and waterlogging prevention systems. Insufficient and other hidden risks, the level of resilient city construction needs to be improved. In addition, there is still a big gap between the city and the people’s growing needs for a better life, especially the lack of community infrastructure and public service facilities.
Break through departmental barriers and make concerted efforts to control the “stubborn disease” of the city
Located in the old city, the surrounding roads are narrow, parking spaces are severely insufficient, and the average number of patients treated every day reaches 80,000… The West China Hospital of Sichuan University, the largest general hospital in the western region, was once the largest “blocking point” in Chengdu.
How to solve the congestion crux? In 2019, Chengdu, as a pilot city of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, carried out urban physical examinations. In the urban physical examinations, 20 road congestion points were sorted out, and West China Hospital was the first to bear the brunt.
“Old city renewal requires systematic and holistic thinking. It is necessary to open up resources on a district scale.” said Zhang Qiao, director of the Chengdu Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. The relevant enterprises and institutions involved can work together to overcome congestion and other “stubborn diseases” in cities. In advancing the transformation of old communities, it is necessary to use urban physical examination and assessment as the starting point, fully understand the wishes of the masses, work together to solve difficult problems.
West China Hospital provides a mirror for the locals to solve traffic congestion and other “urban diseases” from the beginning to the end: “microcirculation” and “multi-point decentralization” are combined, bus lanes are set up, special buses are added, and underground parking is built in the West China campus of Sichuan University. At the same time, an underground passage was built, and a shuttle bus was set up to realize seamless docking, etc. The traffic of people and vehicles around West China Hospital was evacuated and absorbed.
Starting in 2018, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has taken the lead in carrying out urban physical examination and evaluation in Beijing. In 2019, it will launch urban physical examination in 11 cities across the country to find problems in the development of urban construction. By this year, the urban physical examination work has been fully carried out, and the number of sample cities has expanded to 59, covering 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country.
The person in charge of the relevant work of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said that the comprehensive discovery of outstanding problems in urban planning and construction management through the urban physical examination forced the city government to strengthen the effective connection of objectives, problems, and resources, and to solve the “fragmentation caused by fragmentation.” ”Phenomenon, establish a linkage mechanism between the results of the physical examination and the city government’s annual plan, key action project database, and investment direction to provide a basis for the city government to control the “urban disease” and formulate a work plan for urban construction and management.
Emphasize the application of results to promote urban planning and construction management
The purpose of carrying out urban physical examinations is to “cure diseases.” In recent years, each sample city has deeply analyzed the problems and reasons existing in urban planning and construction management, and promoted the application of urban physical examination results.
Some sample cities compared the problems identified in the urban physical inspection, namely, the inspection is changed, and the border inspection is changed. Based on the results of the city’s physical examination, Jingdezhen City has built 248 public facilities supporting projects, and included relevant tasks in the “14th Five-Year Plan”. Chengdu has formulated rectification measures for the problems found in the city’s physical examination, and incorporated the tasks of urban renewal and the construction of public supporting facilities into the list of urban construction projects and released them to the public.
Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Chengdu and other places have established urban physical examination evaluation information platforms, using the existing urban planning and construction management information foundation to coordinate the promotion of urban physical examination work. Shanghai promotes the construction of an urban vital signs monitoring system to realize a visualization, standardization, and dynamic update of data sharing, interaction and maintenance mechanisms. Changsha City has established a closed-loop physical examination process and implemented normalized monitoring and early warning through an information platform.
Urban physical examination promotes the solution of practical problems in urban planning and construction management. The person in charge of the relevant work of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said that urban construction management should focus on post-processing and shift to pre-warning and supervision during the event. The disease can be found through urban physical examinations, the cause of disease can be diagnosed, and prescriptions should be prescribed, and comprehensive treatment should be used to solve shortcomings and Contradiction, to “prevent disease, cure disease.” Through the implementation of urban physical examination and evaluation, the preservation, utilization and promotion of urban renewal should be the main focus, to prevent major demolition and construction, and to promote the transformation of urban development and construction methods.
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