Establishing beautiful and delicate residential quarters in urban areas for poor people moving into buildings from dilapidated shantytowns, carrying out waste disposal in rural areas and implementing the Hundred Village Demonstration and Thousand Village Renovation projects for the construction of a pretty countryside, integrated progress and coordinated development of urban and rural areas have become the focus of Yuxi City in enhancing people’s wellbeing and strengthening standard of living projects. Therefore, Yuxi City is on a speedier pace and a widening path with unique characteristics towards rural and urban construction.

Renovation of Shantytowns Holds up the People’s Dream of Comfortable Living

During the Two Sessions, the Report on the Work of the Government of Yuxi City pointed out that the construction of security housing should be enhanced and 10,000 households in urban shantytowns should be renovated. Since there are many households with simple structures, poor quality, security hazards, imperfect usage functions and incomplete ancillary facilities in city planning areas, conducting renovation of shantytowns has become an objective requirement for improving urban functions of Yuxi City to advance the new urbanization construction with people at the center, improving the quality of urbanization, forming new economic growth points, promoting investment and consumption and boosting the development of relevant industries.

To let poor people move out of dilapidated shantytowns is a significant measure to improving the wellbeing of the Yuxi people’s livelihood and is even the Priority Project of the whole city!

Since it is a significant project for people’s wellbeing, the CPC Committee of Yuxi Municipality and the Yuxi Municipal People’s Government have attached great significance to the renovation of shantytowns, timely convened the promotion and policy business training meeting for the renovation of shantytowns and required departments at each level to have a thorough grasp of their superior’s policy, to think critically and apply it, to strengthen communication and coordination, to largely carry out the PPP model, so as to transform the policy support of shantytown renovation into the actions for the development of Yuxi City via seizing opportunities and enhancing momentum.

This year, there are 6 counties and districts in Yuxi City implement 8 shantytown renovation projects with a planned region of about 4,943mu, total removed households of 12,682 units and 2,030,000m².

At present, Yuxi Municipal People’s Government has signed the Memorandum of Open Financial Cooperation with China Development Bank Yunnan Branch and Financing Development Agreement with Yunnan Construction Engineering Group Co., Ltd., respectively and has won over RMB 7.956 billion in committed loans for shantytown reform projects from China Development Bank covering 7 projects in Hongta District, and Yuanjiang, Eshan, Chengjiang, Huaning and Yimen Counties. According to the unified arrangement of the CPC Committee of Yuxi Municipality and the Yuxi Municipal People’s Government, these projects will have been completely under construction by October this year covering over 10,000 households over 1,500,000m².

Renovation of Rural and Urban Waste Improves Environmental Health

The environment was dirty, disorderly and bad, the environment sanitation facilities were old-fashioned, the problems of rubbish disposal were severe, the regulation mechanism was incomplete and the urban and rural management was in disorder. So, beautiful Yuxi still had many unkempt factors affecting the rural and urban environment.

Therefore, Yuxi Municipal People’s Government has initiated a renovation of urban and rural waste by the second half of last year to carry out the waste renovation model mainly on city and countryside integration and supported by on-the-spot disposal and guided by the Sanitation in Group, Collection in Village, Transportation in Township and Renovation in County and District through intensive participation and detailed measures so as to solve the problems of dirtiness, disorder and melancholy. Yuxi Municipal People’s Government has required every county and district to actively carry out waste renovation activities in urban and rural areas based on the concept Comprehensive Coverage, Long Effective Management, Demonstration and Drive, Keeping a Normal State via the Insistence on Government Leadership, All People Participation, Adjusting Measures to Local Conditions, Rural and Urban Integration and Comprehensive Renovation.

Meanwhile, Yuxi Municipal People’s Government will establish a long-term mechanism for sanitary controls in urban and rural environments with a division of rights and responsibilities, coordination and unity, norms of science and will mobilize cadres and masses at all walks of life to participate in the renovation of urban and rural waste, with the acceleration of infrastructure construction for urban and urban sanitation as the breakthrough, and strengthening people’s awareness of civilization and sanitation and the construction of a clean city and beautiful home as the key, so as to cultivate a good situation with complete sanitary facilities, perfect and orderly rural and urban management mechanisms, a tidy and clean urban and rural appearance, and sound human settlement.

Since the start of the renovation, Yuxi City has formulated relevant implementation plans and arranged special funds under real conditions of each county and district to fully advance the renovation of urban and rural waste.

Hongta District has accumulated funds of over RMB 20 million through various financing to upgrade sanitary facilities, organize management personnel and cleaning teams for waste renovation, improve waste disposal mechanisms, reinforce supervision and assessment through strict rewards and punishment. Xinping County has mobilized the people to carry out cleaning and clearing activities for the rural environment at regular periods and the Three Guarantees right outside your door management has been conducted across 848 village (residential) groups. Tonghai County has improved the village regulations and non-governmental agreements through system establishment and 90% of village committees have established charge systems for waste collection and clearing. Yimen County has deployed sanitary facilities and personnel in towns and townships, and has carried out concentrated renovation activities over 200 times. Yuanjiang County has publicized duty cards in mountainous areas, villages and groups, implemented the villager co-peasant household on-duty system and carried out concentrated renovation at regular periods to lay a solid foundation for the renovation of rural and urban waste.

Hundreds of Demonstrations and Thousands of Renovations Have Made Yuxi More Beautiful

Constructing an artificial wetland, implementing an aquatic landscape project, reconstructing the cultural center square and normalizing village planning construction and other construction are the construction planning for the demonstration village established by Shangmou Xichong Village, Liangwangba Community, Gaocang Sub-district, Hongta District, which is supported by the high officials of the district and sub-district and is on the basis of widely taking advice from high officials after being approved as one of 100-Village Demonstration Construction Units by the municipal committee. The village government has given priority to the transformation of rural houses, improvement of environmental health, hardening of village roads, and green & beautifying village, actively promoting construction on the Hundred Village Demonstration and Thousand Village Renovation project.

Implementing the Hundreds of Demonstrations and Thousands of Renovations project is a specific practice for our city to implement the Opinions on Promoting Beautiful Village Construction of the provincial committee and provincial government and comprehensively implement a four-year village beautification construction plan. Aiming to beautify village construction and focusing on its weaknesses, the city will regard reform and innovation as breakthrough strategies with strong pushes and promotions to achieve villages and townships’ beauties in ecology, appearance, living and customs.

This year, the city will finish 40 demonstration village construction projects and 400 village renovations. According to working guidelines that making quality villages with characteristics by taking one area as an example for the rest of them to follow, insisting on development in areas along national highways and provincial highways, around the Three Lakes, around towns and cities, and ethnic villages as the main points, the city will manage the village via connections between leaders at the city & county level and municipal departments and between organizations and enterprises to strengthen its inspection and instruction on demonstration villages and renovation village constructions. Meanwhile, the city will earnestly formulate construction plans on demonstration villages and renovation villages, highlighting natural scenery, colorful ethnic cultures and regional features, remaining regionally diverse, protecting of local culture and ethnicities so that they can show off their own unique beauties.

We will largely implement Cooperative Shares projects to strengthen the foundation and benefit the farmers through close integration between the construction of village demonstration and renovation with the rapid development of industries with countryside features, will promote the sustainable growth of farmers’ income and develop the collective economy, will completely eliminate empty villages and strengthen the economic power of weak villages so as to strive to build a new path in the beautiful countryside with Yuxi characteristics.