NDRC: Efforts to solve outstanding housing problems in big cities

On April 13, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued a notice on Key Tasks for New Urbanization and Urban-Rural Integration Development in 2021, according to the NDRC's public microblog.

It proposed, among other things, to focus on solving the outstanding housing problems in big cities. Adhere to the positioning of the house is for living, not for speculation, according to local conditions, multiple measures, stabilize land prices, housing prices and expectations, and promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market. Accelerate the cultivation and development of the housing rental market, effectively revitalize the stock of housing resources, vigorously and orderly expand the supply of rental housing, improve the policy on long-term rental housing, and reasonably regulate the level of rent. Focusing on cities with high population inflows and high housing prices, the government will expand the supply of guaranteed rental housing, and focus on solving the housing problems of difficult groups and new citizens such as the agricultural transfer population and newly employed college students. A separate land plan for rental housing, exploring the use of rural collective construction land and enterprises and institutions own idle land to build rental housing, and supporting the conversion of non-residential housing into guaranteed rental housing.

Some of the contents are as follows:

I. General Requirements

In-depth implementation of the new urbanization strategy focusing on human beings, promoting the orderly and effective integration of the agricultural transfer population into the cities, enhancing the carrying capacity of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas, transforming the development mode of mega-mega-cities, upgrading the modernization level of urban construction and governance, and advancing the urbanization with county cities as important carriers, accelerating the integrated development of urban and rural areas, and providing strong support for a good start in the "14th Five-Year Plan".

Second, promote the orderly and effective integration of the agricultural transfer population into the city

Cooperatively promote the reform of the household registration system and the full coverage of basic public **** services for the resident population in cities and towns, and improve the quality of the citizenship of the agricultural transfer population.

(1) orderly liberalization and relaxation of urban settlement restrictions. All kinds of cities should be based on the carrying capacity of resources and environment and the actual needs of economic and social development, reasonably determine the conditions for settlement, adhere to the principle of stock priority, and promote the employment and life in the city for more than five years and move the family of the agricultural transfer of the population, the new generation of rural migrant workers in the town of stable employment and life, the rural students to further their studies and join the military to enter the city of the population of the key groups of people to settle conveniently. Cities with a permanent urban population of less than 3 million have implemented a policy of comprehensively removing settlement restrictions, and cities that have implemented a points-based settlement policy have ensured that the number of years of social security payment and the number of years of residency scores account for a major proportion. The urban settlement policy should treat renters and buyers equally, and allow the resident population of rented housing to settle in public **** account. Cities should plan as a whole, design carefully, and do a good job of liberalizing and relaxing settlement, talent introduction and real estate regulation in an integrated manner. Promote mutual recognition of the cumulative number of years of social security payments and years of residence within conditional city clusters and metropolitan areas. (The Ministry of Public Security and the Development and Reform Commission are responsible for this.)

(2) Promote the coverage of basic public **** services in cities and towns to the non-settled resident population. Encourage the expansion of the supply of public school places for compulsory education in cities with concentrated inflows of population, optimize the deployment of career staffing, and increase the number of teachers. Supporting conditional areas to include the non-settled resident population into the scope of universal pre-school education guarantee. Simplifying the procedures for social security transfers and continuations. Completing the construction of a nationally coordinated information system for pension insurance. Promoting direct settlement of general outpatient expenses across provinces. (The Development and Reform Commission, the Central Editorial Office, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Health Commission, and the Medical Insurance Bureau are responsible for this.)

(3) Upgrading the skill quality of the agricultural transfer population. High-quality subsidized training will be promoted, and the target of 50 million person-times set by the Action Program for Upgrading Vocational Skills will be completed. For the agricultural transfer population, especially the new generation of rural migrant workers, deepen the implementation of the rural migrant workers "spring tide action", "schooling dream action", the new generation of rural migrant workers vocational skills upgrading action, support enterprises to carry out a new apprenticeship training and training subsidies in accordance with the provisions of the law. In conjunction with the epidemic prevention and control situation, the vocational skills training program for rural migrant workers for stable employment has been increased at the appropriate time. In conjunction with promoting the employment and entrepreneurship of rural migrant workers returning to their hometowns and undertaking industrial transfers, targeted entrepreneurial skills training will be carried out. Expand the enrollment scale of vocational colleges and universities for the agricultural transfer population. (The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Education are responsible for this.)

(4) Improve the supporting policy system. Continuing to arrange incentive funds for citizenship from the central government. Improve the mechanism of linking the increase in the scale of urban construction land with the number of agricultural transfer population settling in the city. In accordance with the law to safeguard the rights and interests of farmers who have settled in the city contracted land, residential base, collective assets, support the exploration of the rural "three rights" in accordance with the law, voluntary and compensated withdrawal mechanism. Based on the results of the seventh national population census, release data on the resident population of counties and towns above the county level, study the establishment of a mechanism for releasing statistics on the resident population of urban areas in each city, and promote the release of statistics on a regular basis in conjunction with big data technology. (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Bureau of Statistics, etc.)

Three, enhance the carrying capacity of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas

Enhance the central city's ability to radiate and drive the surrounding areas, cultivate and develop a modernized metropolitan area, enhance the population and economic carrying capacity of urban agglomerations, and form a spatial power system in which metropolitan areas lead the urban agglomerations, and urban agglomerations drive the high quality development of the region. The spatial power system of regional high-quality development.

(5) Improve the mechanism of integrated development of urban agglomerations.
Development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cooperative development, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area construction, the Yangtze River Delta integrated development of the "14th Five-Year Plan" implementation program. Solid implementation of the Chengdu-Chongqing region of the Twin Cities Economic Circle construction planning program. It will study and prepare implementation programs for inter-provincial city clusters in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the Beibu Gulf and the Guanzhong Plain, and guide the development of city clusters within the province in an orderly manner. Improve the multi-level coordination mechanism of city clusters and the cost***sharing and benefit***sharing mechanism, and raise the level of integrated development. (Development and Reform Commission and other responsible)

(F) cultivate the development of modern metropolitan area. Support Fuzhou, Chengdu, Xi'an and other metropolitan areas to prepare and implement development plans, and support other conditional central cities to take the lead in preparing metropolitan area development plans under the guidance of provincial governments. Make full use of existing railroads to run city (suburban) trains, scientific and orderly development of city (suburban) railroads, and open up the inter-city "broken road". Promote ecological environment *** prevention *** governance, build green isolation and ecological corridors between cities. Establish a regular consultation and coordination mechanism for the metropolitan area, and explore the establishment of a joint response mechanism for major emergencies. (Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Transportation, the State Railway Group and other responsible)

(VII) construction of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas on the track. Accelerating the planning and construction of intercity railroads in key city clusters such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and supporting other conditional city clusters in the rational planning and construction of intercity rail transit. Optimize the layout of integrated transportation hubs, build integrated comprehensive passenger transportation hubs and efficient integrated freight hubs, and promote seamless connection and convenient transfer of various modes of transportation. Promote transportation "one card" and two-dimensional code "one code". (Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Transportation, National Railway Group, etc.)

Four, to promote the coordinated development of large, medium and small cities and small towns

Integration of the scale of the economic benefits of the urban layout and the need for ecological health and safety, to promote the rational division of labor in the city, coordinated linkage, and to optimize the size of the structure of cities and towns.

(8) Promoting the optimization of the development of mega mega cities. Promoting the transformation of development and construction methods from scale expansion to connotation enhancement. In the central city, the general manufacturing industry, regional logistics bases, professional markets and other functions and facilities in an orderly manner, as well as excessive concentration of medical and higher education and other public **** service resources, and reasonably reduce the development intensity and population density. Improvement of municipal transportation, ecological and environmental protection, and community governance capabilities to effectively solve the "big city disease". The scientific development of suburban satellite towns around the central city will promote multi-center and cluster development, and realize the integration of production and urbanization and the balance of jobs and housing. Systematically assessing and investigating risks and hidden dangers, and improving risk prevention and control capabilities. (The Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and the Ministry of Emergency Management are responsible for this.)

(ix) Promote the county to make up for the shortcomings and strengthen the weaknesses. Accelerating to make up for the shortcomings and weaknesses of the county's public **** service facilities, environmental infrastructure, municipal utilities, and industrial support facilities. Strengthen the project planning and design, categorization and design of public welfare, quasi-public welfare and business projects, accelerate the project preliminary work. Under the premise of controllable debt risk, increase the central budget investment and local government special bonds and other financial funds to coordinate support, the orderly issuance of the county's new urbanization construction special corporate bonds. Improve the long-term mechanism of government, bank and enterprise docking, coordination and guidance of large-scale enterprises with the strength to undertake the relevant construction tasks, to attract the development of policy and commercial financial institutions in the medium and long term credit funds to actively invest in the use of existing foreign preferential loan channels to be invested. Give full play to the leading role of the 120 county city construction demonstration areas, and support the construction of a number of industrial transformation and upgrading demonstration parks in conditional counties. Combined with the construction of new urbanization, improve the public **** facilities in large-scale resettlement areas for poverty alleviation and relocation. (Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Finance, People's Bank of China, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Development Bank, Agricultural Development Bank, etc.)

(10) Strengthening the function of towns and cities in border areas. To comprehensively enhance the ability of border towns to carry population, connect urban and rural areas, and support national defense. Carrying out the pilot construction of the center towns of the border rich people action, improve infrastructure and public **** services, improve the ability to attract and gather people. It will build highways along the borders, develop a number of new villages and new towns along the borders, and guide the border people to moderately concentrate along the border highways, border-people's trade points, and border settlements. Promoting the full implementation of the Notice of the General Office of the State Council Transmitting the Opinions of the National Development and Reform Commission on Promoting the Standardized and Healthy Development of Characteristic Towns. The list management is unified, with each province as a unit to establish a comprehensive list of featured towns, carry out dynamic adjustment, superiority and inferiority. Guidelines for the development of featured towns will be issued to guide the establishment of quantity control and quality improvement, and to strengthen positive guidance and categorization guidance. Coordinate typical guidance and negative warnings, promote the typical experience of the new round of construction of characteristic towns, strengthen supervision and regulation, and rectify irregularities. (The Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the General Administration of Market Supervision are responsible for this.)

Fifth, accelerate the construction of modern cities

Conform to the new concept and trend of urban development, build livable, innovative, intelligent, green, humanistic, and resilient cities, and push forward pilot demonstrations of modernization of the city. Make cities a space for people's high-quality life.

(XII) focus on solving the outstanding housing problems in big cities. Insisting on the positioning that houses are to be used for housing and not for speculation, adapting to local conditions and adopting a variety of measures, stabilizing land prices, house prices and expectations, and promoting the stable and healthy development of the real estate market. Accelerate the cultivation and development of the housing rental market, effectively revitalize the stock of housing resources, expand the supply of rental housing in a vigorous and orderly manner, improve the policy of long-term rental housing, and reasonably regulate the level of rent. Focusing on cities with high population inflows and high housing prices, the government will expand the supply of guaranteed rental housing, and focus on solving the housing problems of difficult groups and new citizens such as the agricultural transfer population and newly employed college students. A separate land plan for rental housing has been set out, exploring the use of collective construction land in rural areas and unused land owned by enterprises and public institutions for the construction of rental housing, and supporting the conversion of non-residential housing into guaranteed rental housing. (The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance are responsible for)

(xiii) Construction of a new type of smart city. Promoting the intelligent upgrading of municipal utilities and transforming terminal systems in key areas such as transportation, public security and water, electricity, gas and heat. The construction of "urban data brain" and other digital intelligent management platform, promote data integration **** enjoy, improve urban operation and management and emergency response capabilities. Comprehensively implement "one network management" for urban operation, and expand and enrich the application scenarios of smart cities. (The Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the Ministry of Natural Resources are responsible for this.)

(xiv) Construction of low-carbon green cities. To comprehensively promote the classification of domestic garbage, accelerate the construction of domestic garbage incineration and treatment facilities, and improve the disposal facilities for medical waste and hazardous waste. Enhance the collection capacity of the sewage network, implement the utilization of sewage resources, and promote the harmless disposal of sludge. Strengthening the management of urban air quality standards, and promoting the synergistic control of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3). It will promote the elimination of black-smelling water bodies in urban areas and the elimination of sections of poorly V-class water bodies in key urban clusters. It will carry out patriotic hygiene campaigns, promote civilized and healthy living habits, and strengthen the remediation of backstreets, alleys and other environmental hygiene dead ends. It will control urban greenhouse gas emissions, promote the safe and efficient use of energy in a clean and low-carbon manner, and further promote the green and low-carbon transformation of industry, construction, transportation and other fields. (The Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and the Health and Welfare Commission are responsible for this.)

(xv) Enhance the resilience of urban development. Improve infectious disease treatment facilities in public hospitals, improve the basic conditions of disease control, strengthen the construction of operational rooms and the necessary equipment configuration, make up for the short board of public **** health prevention and control treatment in county cities. Improve the ability to combine the level of epidemic, to ensure that the reconstruction of new large public **** facilities with a short period of time to transform the conditions of the square cabin hospital. Coordinated promotion of urban flood management and sponge city construction, transformation of rivers, embankments, reservoirs and other flood control facilities, focusing on the treatment of serious flood-prone waterlogged sections. Improve the mechanism of storage and deployment of important emergency supplies and the mechanism of guaranteeing basic necessities. (Development and Reform Commission, Health Commission, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Emergency Management, General Administration of Sport, etc.)

(p) Optimize the urban transportation service system. In-depth construction of public transportation cities, launching green travel creation actions, and improving customized public transportation, bicycle paths and walking paths. Improvement of parking facilities system mainly with allocated parking lots, public **** parking lots as a supplement, on-street parking spaces as a supplement, improve the charging facilities in residential communities and public **** parking lots, carry out innovative financing methods to support the construction of parking lot pilot. (Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Transportation, Development and Reform Commission, etc.)

(17) implementation of urban renewal action. in the old city to promote the old district, old factories, old neighborhoods, urban villages and other "three districts and a village" transformation as the main content of the urban renewal action. Accelerate the transformation of old districts, the renovation of 53,000 new construction in 2021, the conditions can be synchronized to carry out building energy-saving transformation. In areas with advantages in economic development, such as city clusters, metropolitan areas and large cities, the transformation of old factories and large-scale old neighborhoods will be explored. A number of urban villages will be transformed into urban communities or other spaces according to local conditions. (The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Health and Wellness Commission are responsible for this.)

Sixth, Improve Urban Governance

Establishing the concept of full-life-cycle management, improving the governance structure, innovating the governance method, and promoting the modernization of the urban governance system and the ability to govern.

(xviii) Optimize urban spatial governance. The preparation and completion of provincial, municipal and county-level land space planning, and the coordinated delineation of the three control lines of the red line of ecological protection, permanent basic farmland, and the urban development boundary. Promote the intensive and efficient use of urban construction land, and fully implement the linkage between incremental investment and stock revitalization and utilization. Appropriately expand the proportion of residential land supply, improve the efficiency of industrial land utilization, and increase blue and green ecological space in an orderly manner. Explore the implementation of mixed industrial land supply, layered development, three-dimensional development and public **** transportation-oriented development (TOD) and other modes. Steadily and prudently grasp the adjustment of the jurisdiction of provincial capital cities and the size of municipal districts. It will implement the new-period construction policy of being applicable, economical, green and beautiful, strictly limit the construction of super-high-rise buildings over 500 meters, and strictly prohibit the construction of "ugly buildings". Drawing historical and cultural protection lines and strengthening the protection and utilization of cultural relics. (The Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the Bureau of Cultural Relics are responsible for this)

(xix) Strengthening social governance at the grassroots level. Optimizing the setting and jurisdiction of street communities according to the size of the resident population. The construction of modern communities, based on comprehensive community service facilities, docking community residents' needs, providing convenient and high-quality services. Guiding community social organizations, social work service agencies, community volunteers, resident business units and other *** with the participation of community governance. Supporting the introduction of market-based property services or the implementation of community trusteeship, social organizations, and other ways to improve the quality and standardization of property services in old neighborhoods. (The Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the General Administration of Market Supervision are responsible for this.)

Seven, accelerate the integration of urban and rural areas

Promote the integration of urban and rural areas with counties as the basic unit, insist on supplementing the agricultural sector with industry and bringing the countryside to the urban sector, promote the free flow of urban and rural elements in both directions and the rational allocation of public **** resources, and promote the development of urban and rural areas by taking the 11 national urban and rural areas as a breakthrough. The 11 national urban and rural integrated development pilot zones are used as breakthroughs to promote institutional reforms and the implementation of policy initiatives.

(xx) Promoting employment and entrepreneurship of talents in rural areas. Encourage localities to formulate rules and regulations on the system for talents to join the countryside, allow those who enter the countryside for employment and entrepreneurship to settle in the place of origin or employment and entrepreneurship and enjoy the relevant rights and interests, and explore a variety of ways of absorbing talents into the countryside, such as through investment in stocks and shares and cooperation. It has established a system for scientific researchers to join the countryside to work part-time and leave their posts to start their own businesses, and has explored mechanisms for them to take up shares in technology and work part-time and at part-time salaries in agriculture-related enterprises. Deeply implement the system of scientific and technological specialists. Improve the service system of employment and entrepreneurship for migrant workers returning to their hometowns. Guide industrial and commercial capital to enter the countryside for development, and cultivate a number of typical projects for urban-rural integration. (The Development and Reform Commission, the Central United Front Work Department, the Central Agricultural Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce are all responsible for this)

(21) Deepen the reform of the rural land system. Actively exploring the implementation of a system of market entry of land for rural collectively operated construction, and issuing guidance on the steady and orderly promotion of market entry of land for rural collectively operated construction. Promote the deepening of the rural residence system reform pilot areas to take the lead in improving the residence allocation, transfer, mortgage, withdrawal, use, income, approval, supervision and other systems. Encourage rural collective economic organizations and their members to adopt such methods as self-employment, leasing, shareholding and cooperation to revitalize idle rural residence bases and houses on the ground. (The Ministry of Natural Resources, the Development and Reform Commission, the Central Agricultural Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, etc. are responsible)

(xxii) Promote the extension of public **** facilities to the countryside. Coordinate the planning of water, gas, heat and other municipal utilities, and promote the extension of suburban villages and larger towns. Promote the integrated development of urban and rural road passenger transportation, and promote the reconstruction and relocation of highway passenger stations and functional upgrading. Supporting the suburbs of cities to undertake the evacuation of urban specialized markets and logistics bases, rationally distributing cold-chain logistics facilities, distribution and delivery facilities and farmers' market networks in counties and villages, and unclogging the channels for agricultural products to enter cities and industrial products to enter the countryside. Promote the quality and balanced development of compulsory education and urban-rural integration, and promote the reform of the management of compulsory education teachers' "county-controlled school employment". It will implement regional registration of physicians, promote multi-institutional practice of physicians, and actively develop healthcare consortia. Relying on the National Urban and Rural Integrated Development Pilot Zone and other pilot demonstrations of urban and rural integrated development within counties. (The Development and Reform Commission, the Central Agricultural Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Education, the Health Commission and the Ministry of Commerce are responsible for this)

Eight, organization and implementation

(Twenty-three) compression of local responsibility. Provincial Development and Reform Commission should take the lead in conjunction with all relevant departments at the provincial level, do a good job of organizing and scheduling and task decomposition, and increase funding and land and other elements of security support. Municipal and county governments should effectively promote the implementation of tasks, policies and projects to ensure substantial progress and results.

(xxiv) Strengthen inter-ministerial coordination. The National Development and Reform Commission, relying on the inter-ministerial joint conference system for urbanization work and urban-rural integration and development, will strengthen coordination and guidance and supervision in conjunction with all relevant departments. All relevant departments should refine and formulate specific measures, and organize and mobilize the strength of the system to solidly promote.