After 10 years of illegal demolitions in Hainan: The end of Hainan-style retirement real estate due to strong demolitions?

“Every building has a story and a chain of interests behind it.”

Four years ago, Luo Baoming, then secretary of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee, said this in an interview.

On April 28 this year, the Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau of Lingshui County, Hainan Province announced that after the bureau recently issued the "Compulsory Demolition Announcement" and other notices, Lingshui Shunze Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. 57 low-rise buildings and 2 underground passages were demolished, covering a construction area of ??22,479.05 square meters.

Earlier on March 24, the Le'an Village Committee of Sancai Town, Lingshui, carried out mandatory demolition of the "two violations" pattern in the 2019 Phase 02 of 4 foundations in Sanshan Village, with a construction area of ??540 square meters. square meters.

"Demolishing illegal activities" for the island of Hainan is a "mission-style" operation that never stops.

Mei editor (WeChat account Real-easte-Circle) noticed that in June 2015, the article "The head of the Provincial People's Congress Legislative Affairs Committee talks about certain regulations on investigating and punishing illegal buildings in Hainan Province" published on the Hainan Provincial Government website "Between 2006 and 2012, the Hainan Provincial Government discovered more than 16,000 illegal buildings covering an area of ??approximately 9.2 million square meters. During this period, the Hainan Provincial Government investigated and dealt with more than 8,700 illegal buildings covering an area of ??5.04 million square meters." meters, but there are still more than 7,400 illegal buildings covering an area of ??4.2 million square meters, and the number of newly built, renovated, and expanded illegal buildings continues to increase, and the number of illegal buildings continues to increase."

Data from the Hainan Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development shows that in 2016, the number of illegal buildings continued to increase. The province demolished 7.87 million square meters of illegal buildings and prevented and controlled 840,000 square meters of illegal buildings; in 2017, the province demolished a total of 4.6023 million square meters of illegal buildings, effectively controlled 1.1623 million square meters of illegal buildings, and exceeded the target task by 131.49%; 2018 In 2019, the province concentrated on demolishing 11,822 illegal buildings, covering an area of ??5.24 million square meters...

The road to "demolition of illegal buildings" in Hainan is long and difficult, but it has been a year and is still being updated.

“The impact is very bad”

Lingshui Guomao·Qingshui Bay is a super illegal construction of 380,000 square meters, but the compensation and resettlement of home buyers and the accountability of those involved are An official response is still awaited.

On December 14, 2019, the Lingshui County Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau coordinated with various relevant functional departments to demolish the Lingshui Guomao·Qingshui Bay project in accordance with the law. The illegal building area demolished exceeded 140,000 square meters.

Lingshui Guomao·Qingshuiwan project has been subject to administrative penalties many times since 2015 due to construction on agricultural land. According to CCTV's "News Investigation" report in April 2019, each time the penalty was imposed, illegal buildings were confiscated and demolished, but the illegal buildings were left intact. In March 2017, the Lingshui County Housing Authority issued an administrative penalty decision, ordering Guomao Qingshuiwan to immediately stop sales.

On January 12, 2019, Guomao·Qingshui Bay was officially taken over by Lingshui County, and compulsory measures such as cutting off water and electricity were taken. A large number of owners said that they had stayed for less than a month. The next day, "Hainan Daily" reported that Lingshui County has established a rectification and disposal leading group headed by the county party committee and county government. In the next step, it will do its best to do a good job in persuading and guiding the masses and other related stability maintenance work, and launch an investigation into the relevant responsible persons. Accountability process.

Liu Cheng, deputy secretary of the Hainan Provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission and leader of the Guomao project disposal team, publicly stated that we believe that the government here does not have adequate supervision and inaction, and there are even some public officials who have nothing to do with this illegal company. Businesses collude with each other. The consequences of building such a large house on this agricultural land knowingly and illegally are very serious and the impact is very bad. It has caused great damage to the construction of Hainan Free Trade Island. These issues are indeed worthy of our deep thought.

Picture source: Lingshui Li County People’s Government

From rushing to build houses to demolishing them very quickly

Some illegal buildings were officially It was built slowly amid fines and supervision, and then quickly razed to the ground. All of this is closely related to Hainan's painful real estate development history.

After Hainan was established as a province, there have been two real estate bubble bursts, the earliest in 1993 and the latest in 2011. These two heavy losses created unfinished buildings everywhere in Hainan.

According to official data, after the real estate market deteriorated in 1993, there were three main impacts on Hainan: first, 23,800 hectares of construction land that had been occupied and idle for a long time; second, 4.55 million square meters. There are 603 vacant commercial buildings with an area of ??16.31 million square meters, and there are many suspended and postponed projects everywhere.

Hainan has experienced continuous planning improvements in recent years, and the real estate market has also heated up. Against this background, real estate developers have become active again, and it is not uncommon for real estate construction to be carried out in the name of cultural tourism projects.

The real estate trend is prevalent across the island, and some developers are even "taking risks" and attracting investment through tourism, health care and other projects. Without obtaining the "Five Certificates" in accordance with the law, they hurriedly The house was built on the ground.

A person engaged in commercial real estate development in Wanning, Hainan, told Magnesium Editor (WeChat account Real-easte-Circle): "(Developers) are bold. They dare to do it without any (documents). If it is really demolished, there is no room for negotiation."

"It will be demolished very quickly. Look, it was just a community before, but now there is no trace of it? Not even a week. When we arrived, all the demolition was done and all the things were taken away. Some people in the community had to pile up their things and throw them away or sell them when they had no time to move them out the next day. "In Nanlin, Wanning City. Town, a local resident described the scene of illegal demolition to Magnesium (WeChat ID: Real-easte-Circle).

Refuse to make the same mistakes again

Hainan officials are therefore very wary that the overheated development of the real estate industry will make the same mistakes again. In the past 10 years, Hainan has also been quite cautious in the approval and planning of construction land.

After the "double suspension", the Ministry of Environmental Protection inspected Hainan in 2018. In the announcement of "The Fourth Central Environmental Protection Inspection Team Feedback on Inspection Situation to Hainan Province", real estate became a key target of criticism. , many well-known developers' projects have also been suspended, including Evergrande Dahua Island, Sunac Riyue Bay and other reclamation and island projects, and China Communications Construction Real Estate projects, some of which have not been resumed so far.

Just after the inspection team of the Ministry of Environmental Protection called the name, the executive of the Hainan Provincial Government also passed the "Opinions of the Hainan Provincial People's Government on Further Strengthening Land Macro-control and Improving Land Benefits" stating that land macro-control will be strengthened from multiple aspects . Among them, a dual control system for the total amount and intensity of construction land is implemented, and it is prohibited to provide land for projects with overcapacity, high energy consumption, and high pollution, and it is prohibited to bundle or match the supply of commercial residential land with land for other industrial projects.

At the same time, Hainan has spared no effort in cracking down on illegal construction. Among them, the route in Sanya City is the most representative.

On July 22, 2010, in order to crack down on illegal construction, Sanya City launched the massive "Operation Hammer", focusing on cracking down on illegal buildings built in planned project lands and illegal land sales and construction. houses with small property rights, occupying agricultural land, filling in rivers, and illegally constructing buildings and villas by digging mountains and destroying forests.

According to official information released by Sanya, in the nine years from 2010 to 2018, Sanya City demolished 26,809 illegal buildings/locations covering 15.057 million square meters. Among them, Operation Hammer reached its climax in 2015 when Sanya’s Golden Sunshine Community was demolished. In this year, Sanya City demolished 7,269 illegal buildings/units covering 3.886 million square meters.

However, no one can understand the joys and sorrows of those affected by demolition.