A healthy city with urban diseases

In order to promote the pace of building a healthy city in the world, WHO once defined the theme of1April 7, 1996 as "city and health" and published the specific standards and contents of 10 healthy city, which provided a good reference for countries to build a healthy city.

With the increase of floating population, increasing employment pressure, traffic congestion, environmental pollution, housing shortage and energy shortage in modern cities, "urban diseases" are becoming more and more serious. Building a healthy city is of strategic significance to the healthy development of cities in the future.

The most important ones include: (1) to provide a clean and safe environment for the citizens; (2) enabling residents to participate in the formulation of various policies concerning their daily lives, especially their health and welfare; (3) Protect cultural heritage and respect the various cultural and life characteristics of all residents (regardless of race or religious belief); (4) It can make people live healthier, live longer and get sick less. These standards show that building a healthy city is a profound revolution in which modern civilization replaces traditional civilization, and it is the fundamental way to promote harmony between man and nature and between people, actively respond to various problems in the process of urbanization, and improve human health. The concept of "harmony" is the core of our culture. For China people, "healthy city" and "livable city" should not be a new concept. In the new era, we can't live without urbanization, and we can't cure "urban diseases". Creating a "healthy city" is a good choice to treat "urban diseases". Only in this way can the process of urbanization not go astray, and the cure of "urban diseases" can have a real starting point.

The 20 12 Report on New Urbanization in China gives prescriptions for how to control "urban diseases": first, scientifically formulate urban planning; second, strengthen infrastructure construction; third, adjust urban spatial layout; and fourth, improve employment mechanism. In order to solve the contradiction between population expansion and urban scale in big cities, Niu Wen suggested that efforts should be made in establishing urban alliances, guiding the rational distribution of population and changing the mode of economic development. "