Poverty-stricken people achieve safe and secure housing

"Preventing poor people from living in dilapidated houses" is one of the important tasks in the process of poverty alleviation. Through the joint efforts of many parties, the verification work of housing safety and security for registered poor households has been fully completed. Verification shows that all registered poor households across the country have achieved housing safety and security.

As the villagers said, "Now that the dilapidated house has been renovated, the muddy legs are gone, and good times are coming, the confidence and energy to strive for a well-off society are getting stronger day by day."

Prevent poor people from living in dilapidated houses

Ni Hong, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, introduced that since the implementation of the poverty alleviation campaign, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has closely focused on achieving safe and secure housing for the poor. To ensure the goals and tasks of poverty alleviation, we will focus on registered poor households, organize all localities to carry out safety assessments on the housing of all registered poor households, include all houses with safety hazards in the scope of renovation, and establish renovation platforms on a house-by-house basis. We will gradually increase the per-household subsidy standard for the renovation of dilapidated houses in rural areas, and provide preferential support for the renovation of dilapidated houses in deeply impoverished areas such as the "Three Districts and Three Prefectures". Organized and compiled technical standards and guidelines for the identification, renovation, and completion acceptance of rural dilapidated houses that are highly applicable and operable, carried out training related to rural house construction management, strictly implemented quality management, strengthened the supervision of the use of subsidy funds, and renovated one household and canceled the number. One household to ensure that the renovation goals are achieved.

In the face of the sudden COVID-19 epidemic, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has guided all localities to coordinate the work related to epidemic prevention and control and poverty alleviation and the renovation of dilapidated rural buildings. Gather the strength of the whole industry and the whole system to implement dynamic management of the progress of the finishing projects and help all regions solve difficulties and problems in a timely manner.

In the second half of 2020, after floods and geological disasters occurred in relevant southern provinces, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development promptly organized relevant areas to use prefabricated houses and other methods to resettle the affected poor people, and promptly conducted safety appraisals of disaster-damaged houses. , make good use of relevant central and local subsidy funds to support the restoration and reconstruction of housing for the poor people damaged by disasters, and ensure that the housing of registered poor households is safe and secure.

No household is left behind

The "three districts and three states" are the most difficult and the most difficult in the fight against poverty. The "Three Districts and Three Prefectures" are deeply impoverished areas with relatively lagging economic and social development, backward transportation conditions, and a shortage of building materials, local construction craftsmen and even construction teams. Construction costs are relatively high, and it is difficult to renovate dilapidated rural buildings. Zhang Xueqin, director of the Village and Town Construction Department of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that in recent years, nearly half of the funds allocated by the central government to local governments for the renovation of dilapidated rural buildings have been concentrated in the "three districts and three prefectures." At the same time, regions also help each other. For example, in 2019, Sichuan Province adopted the "one county to help one township" policy specifically for "three districts and three prefectures", and counties with better conditions provided counterpart assistance to towns in Liangshan Prefecture.

Zhou Hongwen, director of the Guizhou Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that Guizhou is the province with the largest number of poor people in the country. It was also the first province to implement the renovation of dilapidated rural buildings, and it is also the province that has implemented the most renovation of dilapidated rural buildings. The renovation of dilapidated houses in Guizhou's rural areas has implemented a full coverage appraisal to ensure full coverage of housing safety and zero omissions; it has implemented quality improvement in all areas, comprehensively implemented rectification of ventilation and rain leakage in old rural housing, comprehensively implemented rectification of mixed living in rural areas, and simultaneously implemented supporting kitchen renovations , toilet renovation, and circle renovation projects; implement full-process control to ensure the quality of dilapidated building renovation projects; and implement all-round training.

Zhai Yulong, secretary of the Zhenxiong County Party Committee, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, said that they have achieved three "not missing a single household" in their work to ensure housing safety. First, no household will be missed in the identification, and three rounds of household identification will be organized to put in a lot of "embroidery efforts". Second, no household should be missed in the renovation. Once identified, we must firmly grasp the three keys of financial subsidies, technical services, and process control, and organize the masses to carry out the renovation of dilapidated houses in an orderly manner by category and year. Third, no household was missed in the verification, and it took 6 days to complete the verification of safe housing security for the 118,000 registered poor households in the county.

Further improving the quality of the human settlement environment

In Zhenxiong County, the renovation of dilapidated rural houses not only enables the rural poor to realize their dream of living and working in peace and contentment, but also makes the villages more "alive". In the process of implementing the renovation of dilapidated rural houses, many villages in Zhenxiong County combine new construction with demolition of old ones, coordinate house renovation with electricity, road, water and toilet renovations, and unify foundation improvement with retaining nostalgia. Many places have therefore become rural tourism attractions.

There is an ethnic minority village called Songlin in Zhenxiong County. It used to be a notoriously poor village. The people lived in thatched houses and walked on muddy roads.

The villagers once joked to themselves that "it's a pine forest town, full of mud and water, and you can't take off your shoes even if you take three steps out." Since the implementation of the renovation of dilapidated houses in rural areas, the village has transformed from renovating dilapidated houses and building roads to developing characteristic planting and rural tourism, and has transformed into a model village for the improvement of the county's living environment and national unity and progress.

In the next step, what efforts are needed to achieve an effective connection between poverty alleviation and rural revitalization?

Ni Hong introduced that after the poverty alleviation task is completed, there are two important tasks to implement rural revitalization:

The first is to consolidate. Based on the calculation of 50 years of farm building design life and 2% annual depreciation, more than 200,000 of the 11.57 million households that have undergone renovation of dangerous houses are likely to become dangerous houses again; 11.84 million households had originally safe houses, and based on a service life of 50 years , there are also 2% depreciation, and there are more than 200,000 households; there are also more than 10 million households on the edge of poverty that have been guaranteed, including subsistence allowance households, five-guarantee households, poor disabled families, etc. Calculated based on 2%, there are still 20 Thousands of households. In other words, we must continue to ensure that the renovation of dilapidated houses of the more than 600,000 registered poor and marginalized households is completed.

The second is promotion. After achieving housing safety and security, we must gradually improve the quality of the living environment and work hard on water supply, sewage treatment, energy structure, etc., so that households lifted out of poverty will have a greater sense of gain, happiness, and security.