Forwarding "Housing and Urban-Rural Development Ministry of the relevant person in charge of transformation of shantytowns"Accelerate the pace of transformation to benefit more people - Housing Urban and Rural Construction Department of the relevant person in charge of shantytowns transformation Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 28 (Xinhua News Agency reporter Du Yu) According to the plan, in 2012, the country will transform all kinds of shanty towns more than 3 million. Today, shantytowns to complete the transformation of how? What are the challenges? The next step will also take measures to accelerate the pace of transformation of shantytowns? With these questions, the reporter recently interviewed the Ministry of housing and urban construction of the person in charge. Q: In recent years, China's large-scale implementation of affordable housing projects, half of which is shantytowns. Today, shantytowns to complete the transformation of how? A: Preliminary statistics, from 2006 to the end of 2011, the national total of all types of shantytowns started more than 10 million households. In 2012, the country will transform more than 3 million shanty towns. The existence of shantytowns is a historical issue of outstanding debts, has now become a city in the "dual structure" of a major performance, it is necessary to speed up the pace of transformation. The CPC Central Committee and State Council attached great importance to urban housing, industrial and mining (including coal mines), forest, reclamation shantytowns housing difficulties, poor living environment, the past few years increased the transformation of various shantytowns efforts. In 2008, the central government launched affordable housing projects and accelerated the transformation of state-owned forest areas (shanty houses), dilapidated buildings in state-owned land reclamation areas and shantytowns in the central decentralized local coal mines as an important content. In 2010, the central government started the transformation of urban and state-owned mining shantytowns, and continued to promote shantytowns in state-owned forest areas (shanty buildings), state-owned land reclamation areas and central decentralized local coal mines. After several years of efforts, various shantytowns transformation has achieved positive results. However, all kinds of shantytowns transformation task is still arduous. According to the survey, as of now there are still more than 12 million urban low-income and a small amount of middle-income families living in shantytowns. In addition, there are a lot of "villages in the city", urban old buildings. Shantytowns housing dilapidated crowded, kitchen facilities are incomplete, and some even exist security risks. To help these residents to solve housing difficulties, the party and the government is bounden duty. Protection or support for this group of housing is also a common practice in many countries and regions. Q: What kind of policy support does the government provide for shantytowns? A: The transformation of shantytowns, the central government in financial investment, construction land, taxes and credit and so on to support. From 2007 to 2011, the central government arranged grants totaling 73 billion yuan, of which more than 90% of the subsidy funds to the central and western regions with financial difficulties. Shantytowns in accordance with the "government-led, market operation" principle. In addition to encouraging local governments to implement the financial subsidies, tax relief, land transfer income and other preferential policies, but also allows the transformation of the project, supporting the construction of a certain proportion of commercial services and commodity housing to support the transfer of part of government revenue to attract the development of enterprises to participate Shantytowns transformation, both the original shantytowns residents can enjoy better public services, but also can ease the pressure on government funding to improve the transformation efficiency. Q: How to understand the significance of transformation of squatter settlements? A: The basic purpose of the implementation of shantytowns is to improve the living conditions of the masses, taking into account the improvement of urban functions, improve the urban environment. All parts of the shantytowns to implement a "security at the end of" placement, resettlement standards generally reached more than 45 square meters per household to ensure the implementation of the transformation of the people living standards can be improved significantly. Shantytowns transformation also called for strengthening the transformation and construction and placement of housing distribution process open and transparent, shantytowns masses to maintain the right to know and participation, to ensure that the results of the masses of the distribution of satisfaction. Practice from the past few years, a solid push forward the transformation of various shantytowns, both to improve people's livelihood, but also an important measure to expand domestic demand. Shantytowns transformation of high industrial relevance, driving force, not only to increase investment, but also to stimulate consumption, can effectively digest steel, building materials, home appliances and other upstream and downstream production capacity and products. Q: What challenges does China face in shantytowns? A: Objectively speaking, the implementation of shantytowns transformation more and more difficult, mainly due to high commercial value, easy to transform the basic transformation has been completed, the rest of the transformation of most of the high cost. From this year's situation, the prominent problems in the transformation of squatter settlements include: First, land acquisition and demolition work is difficult, for the implementation of the plan affected, some of the shantytowns into the program can not be implemented on schedule; many local reconstruction fund raising pressure Large, especially supporting facilities construction funds is difficult to implement, affecting the completion of shantytowns resettlement housing delivery; a few projects there are quality problems, including the quality of participating units do not implement the responsibility of the size of some components of the larger deviation, there are some common quality problems . Although difficult, but determined to further promote, because it is the people's eagerly look forward to, but also help to enhance the quality of the city, enhance the vitality of urban development. Q: What will be the next step to accelerate the pace of transformation of squatter settlements? A: In the coming period, the central government will increase investment and improve policies and measures to speed up the transformation of shanty towns so as to enable the residents of shantytowns to live in complete sets of housing in line with civilized and healthy standards. All localities should strive to basically complete the transformation of all kinds of shantytowns, and accelerate the transformation of non-shanty shantytowns, sporadic dilapidated houses, the steady implementation of the transformation of the villages, and gradually carry out basic infrastructure, building density, The comprehensive renovation of the old residential quarters in the urban area will enable the masses among them to synchronize with other people to improve their living conditions. To achieve the above objectives, will focus on promoting the following aspects: First, continue to expand the protection of housing projects funding channels, and actively innovative financing. Second, urge all localities to fully implement the project quality responsibility system, based on the quality assurance, efforts to speed up the progress of transformation. The third is to speed up the completion of the completion of the project acceptance and supporting facilities, good delivery ready.