The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development held a major meeting to focus on "three stability", with precise security, rental housing, and garbage classification being the focus.

What will be the focus of housing and urban-rural development next year? What are the requirements?

On December 23, the National Housing and Urban-Rural Development Work Conference held in Beijing gave the answer.

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What to do next year?

The meeting put forward five requirements for the work of housing and urban and rural construction next year:

First, unswervingly implement the new development concept. Effectively change ideological concepts, take a new path of high-quality development of urban and rural construction with connotation and intensiveness, and implement new development concepts into all aspects and links of housing and urban and rural construction work.

The second is to resolutely fight the three tough battles. We will make every effort to promote the renovation of dilapidated houses in rural areas and ensure that all 1.352 million dilapidated houses that need to be renovated for poverty alleviation are completed by 2020. Increase efforts to control black and odorous water bodies in cities to ensure that more than 90% of black and odorous water bodies in built-up areas of cities at prefecture level and above are eliminated by the end of 2020. Adhere to the word "stability" as the top priority, fully implement the long-term management and control mechanism of city-specific policies, stabilize land prices, house prices, and expectations, maintain the smooth operation of the real estate market, and resolutely prevent and resolve real estate market risks.

The third is to do a good job in ensuring people's livelihood. Adhere to the people-centered development idea, focus on people's livelihood issues to find the right entry point, and concentrate on solving the people's worries, worries and worries. Implement the party's mass line, give full play to the main role of the masses, and jointly build a beautiful homeland.

The fourth is to focus on promoting high-quality development. Adhere to problem orientation, goal orientation, and result orientation, promote urban development and construction from focusing on incremental construction to paying equal attention to quality improvement and transformation of existing stocks and incremental structural adjustment, and continue to meet the people's needs for a better life. Taking supply-side structural reform as the main line, promote policy innovation, management innovation, and technological innovation in housing and urban-rural construction, and promote the modernization of the governance system and governance capabilities in the field of housing and urban-rural construction.

The fifth is to effectively improve work style. Adhere to the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, establish a correct view of political achievements, and avoid all forms of formalism and bureaucracy. Continue to strengthen learning, develop the style of investigation and research, master scientific working methods, and continuously enhance work skills. Adhere to pilot projects first and promote comprehensive development of work based on exploration and accumulation of experience.

What are the key tasks?

The meeting emphasized that in 2020, we must focus on the following nine aspects of work:

First, strive to stabilize land prices, house prices, and expectations, and maintain the stable and healthy development of the real estate market.

We will long-term adhere to the positioning that houses are for living in, not for speculation, and do not use real estate as a short-term means to stimulate the economy. We will continue to steadily implement the long-term mechanism plan for the stable and healthy development of the real estate market, and strive to establish and improve The institutional mechanism of real estate regulation.

The second is to strive to improve the urban housing security system and increase the intensity of housing security for people in need in cities.

We will do a good job in improving the housing security system pilot work and strive to form replicable and popularizable experience. We will further standardize the development of public rental housing and strengthen precise protection for needy groups in sanitation, public transportation and other industries. Strictly grasp the scope and standards of shantytown renovation and steadily promote the renovation of shantytowns. Summarize and promote pilot experience, further improve support policies, and do a good job in the renovation of old urban communities. Reform and improve the housing provident fund system.

The third is to focus on cultivating and developing rental housing to help solve the housing problems of new citizens and other groups.

Further cultivate institutionalized and large-scale leasing enterprises, and accelerate the establishment and improvement of government-led housing leasing management service platforms. Focus on the development of policy-based rental housing and explore the standards and operating mechanisms for policy-based rental housing.

The fourth is to focus on improving the quality of the city and the quality of the living environment and building a "beautiful city."

In-depth implementation of the new development concept, treating cities as "organic living entities", starting from solving outstanding problems of "urban diseases", coordinating urban planning and construction management, and promoting high-quality urban development. Establish and improve urban construction management and human settlement environment quality evaluation systems, and launch pilot projects for the construction of "beautiful cities". Accelerate the construction of a CIM platform construction framework system at the ministry, provincial and municipal levels.

Systematically promote the construction of sponge cities across the region, and promote special actions to address shortcomings and upgrade infrastructure. Comprehensively promote the classification of urban domestic waste, and 46 key cities must achieve the goal of basically establishing a domestic waste classification and treatment system by 2020. Strengthen the protection of historical culture and build a national system for urban and rural development and historical and cultural protection and inheritance. Continue to deepen the reform of the urban management law enforcement system and accelerate the construction of a comprehensive urban management service platform.

The fifth is to focus on improving rural housing conditions and living environment and building "beautiful countryside."

Summarize and promote the pilot experience in the construction of new rural houses such as steel structure prefabricated ones to improve the quality of rural houses and rural living conditions. Accelerate the management of rural domestic waste, improve the rural living environment, and promote the establishment of a county-level beautiful countryside assessment system.

The sixth is to focus on promoting the supply-side structural reform of the construction industry and promote the transformation and upgrading of the construction industry.

Conscientiously implement the guidance on improving the quality assurance system to improve the quality of construction projects. Reform and improve the engineering standard system and deepen the market-oriented reform of engineering cost. Vigorously promote the pilot construction of steel structure prefabricated housing. Continue to improve the project guarantee system and reform the construction labor employment system. Strengthen the project quality responsibility of construction units, strengthen the safety management and control of major risks at the construction site, and ensure the safety of construction construction.

Seventh, we will focus on deepening the reform of the approval system for engineering construction projects and continue to optimize the business environment.

Promote the reform experience and innovative practices of various regions, further promote the full-process and full-coverage reform, improve the evaluation and evaluation mechanism, strengthen social supervision, and ensure that a national unified construction project approval and management system is basically established next year.

The eighth is to focus on carrying out activities to jointly create a beautiful environment and a happy life, and promote the construction of a "complete community".

The ninth is to focus on strengthening party building and providing strong political guarantee for the high-quality development of housing and urban and rural construction.

Experts: Guide the market to stabilize expectations with a long-term mechanism

Yan Yuejin, research director of the Think Tank Center of the Yiju Research Institute, said that the meeting made it clear that houses are for living in, not for use. The positioning of speculation puts more emphasis on "long-term", which means that the positioning of housing for living and not for speculation is not affected by the market cycle. "No matter whether the market is good or bad, we will persist in the follow-up. This has strong guiding significance for the property market in 2020 and the future." Zhang Dawei, chief analyst of Zhongyuan Real Estate, said that it is expected that the national real estate regulation will be strengthened in 2020 The situation in 2019 will be maintained - we will still resolutely crack down on speculation, and fine-tuning policies will also be conducive to rigid demand. "Although some cities have made slight adjustments recently, overall, the basic principles will not change, and the central government's determination to curb the rise in housing prices will not change."

Zhang Dawei said that the key to stabilizing land prices, stabilizing housing prices, and stabilizing expectations is The key to the long-term management and control mechanism is to properly handle the coordinated relationship between housing consumption and investment, real estate and economic growth. The investment attribute of real estate must be downplayed and return to the residential attribute. From the perspective of policy expectations, the next step should be to speed up the supply of housing and land, improve real estate taxation, leasing and other systems, and guide the market with long-term mechanisms to stabilize expectations.