Nanming district kicks off three-year urban upgrade plan

A panoramic view of the urban landscape of Nanming district [Photo/nanming.gov.cn]

The Nanming district of Guiyang – capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province – has issued plans to renovate its shanty towns, old residential communities, backstreets and alleyways in an initiative to transform its living environment over a three-year period.

In the next three years, Nanming will implement shanty town renovation projects involving 7.01 million square meters, that are expected to benefit more than 41,000 households.

It will also do remedial work on old residential communities that will improve the lives of an additional 48,000 households and it will finish renovations and upgrading of 202 backstreets and alleyways.

As 2021 is the first year of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), it is seen as a milestone for the implementation of the five-year-long program for Guiyang to become "a competitive provincial capital".

A wall in Taizi Street is currently being repainted. [Photo/nanming.gov.cn]

Nanming will reportedly further renew its urban spaces, continue to meet its people's aspirations for a better life and promote the construction of a new type of urbanization.

In 2021, Nanming plans to renovate 10,507 shantytowns with an area of about 2.23 million sq m. To date, 7,979 households in the renewal program have been renovated, with a completion rate of 75 percent.

Moving forward, there are plans for Nanming to start construction work on 12 community renovation projects, including the Xinglong, Qingshan and Yutian areas.

These will involve 29,314 households with a renovation area of about 2.02 million sq m. At present, great progress is reportedly being made in the renovation projects.

Renovation work at Qingshan residential community is currently underway. [Photo/nanming.gov.cn]