Construction of Residential Houses


(I) Main indexes of the construction of residential houses in the 10th "5-year Plan"
1. Scale
The newly-built residential houses shall be as much as 70 million to 75 million square meters, about 780,000 to 830,000 units. The urban residential area per capita shall be 13.8 square meters to 14 square meters. The house completion rate shall be 85%, enabling the families to enjoy the well-to-do residence of "1 house for 1 family" basically.
2. Quality
Establish robust and efficient quality management system of residential construction, in order to control the quality of residential house effectively. By 2005, eliminate basically the general quality faults such as cracking, leakage, blocking and likewise, improving the main quality indexes of residential house in Shanghai among the top lines of the main cities in China.
3. Environment
Continuously improve the internal functional quality of residential houses that act as the principle part of residential community environment, and improve the outside profile. Strengthen the vegetative construction, make good vegetative arrangement to improve the ecological quality of community environment , and strengthen the community environmental arts to obtain a harmonious, graceful, tidy, tranquil and safe environment.
4. Supporting construction
Accelerate the construction of the civil and public pipeline networks that support the residential community. In the principal of "from underground to ground", gradually develop the residential construction; Work out and perfect the professional layout for the approved residential community bases in Shanghai, improve the construction content and standard of the supporting facilities of residential community, and continuously increase the modernization level of thee supporting construction of residential community.
5. Industrialization of residential houses
Based on the technical development and the promotion and application of "4 new" (new technology, new process, new material, and new equipment), realize the conversion of residential construction mode from extensive to intensive; Carry out the authentication system of residential house choiceness units and the confirmation system of residential house performance. And keep improving the socialization and industrialization level of residential house production.
£¨II£©Main countermeasures of residential construction in the 10th "5-year Plan"
1. Balance the layout and the construction land of residential community.
According to the general design of city schedule and the development requirements of economy and society, the layout plan of residential community shall accommodate the city development orientation, combine with the development of urban transportation and the improvement of urban base supporting facilities, develop in the relatively concentrated way, provide the diversified and selectable residential houses, and build the new-type modern residential community with the unified plan and rational layout. As to the residential land, the overall land supply shall be adjusted and controlled in plan, and the land reservation shall be optimized as well to increase the land utilization rate and further streamline the allocation of land resources. It's estimated that total 70 million to 75 million square meters of residential houses will be built in Shanghai from 2001 to 2005. Thus, rearrange and make rational use of the residential bases that are under construction or left idle and have been approved for requisition by Pudong government, remold the rest lots of "365" dangerous residential areas in downtown as well as schedule and rebuild the latest reconstruction bases, and combine with the industry structure regulation of "2 steps backward, then 3 steps forward" to tap the potential and reservation in order to guarantee the overall requirement of residential land.
2. Improve the overall quality of residential construction
1) Build beautiful residential environment. From now on, the new residential communities between the inner and the outer circles shall be well equipped with residential house, public building, road and vegetative coverage in proper density, most of the houses shall be the tier buildings, the rate of high buildings shall be no more than 15%, and the building capacity rate shall be around 1; in the downtown area, encourage the development of residential communities in the mode of grouping instead of scatted distribution, and focus on building the moderate high buildings with the capacity of 2.5 or below. The vegetative coverage rate of the newly-built communities shall be as much as 35% or above, including no less than 10% of the concentrated grassland; The vegetative coverage rate of the downtown communities shall be no less than 25%, including no less than 5% of concentrated grassland, and wall of residential communities shall be constructed in the proper way to make the vegetation observable.
2) Build the residential house with complete function and rich profile. The layout and division design of house shall provide good residence, comfort, diversity and changeability. Each set of house shall include a reservation room with its area of no less than 3 square meters; the residential buildings with 7 or more floors shall be equipped with the elevator with good performance and rational price; build proper quantity of the geronto-apartments according to the aging trend of population; the entrance of residential house or public building and the sidewalk in the residential community shall be equipped with the non-barrier facility to facilitate the disabled. The height and appearance of residential house shall be rich of alteration in order to form the building profile with the features of a modern city; the outside wall of residential house shall be coated with paint to provide harmonious color change, and shall be regularly renewed; all kinds of aerial cables shall be laid underground in order to keep the building in uniform profile.
3) Settle the common quality faults in terms of building structure and use function. Find the proper way to solve the over-subsiding form the angle of technology and cost, improve the control standard of subsiding in the fundamental design of residential house properly, as well as increase the overall house rigidity, optimize the designing architecture, minimize and even eliminate the structure faults caused by over-subsiding or uneven subsiding and the common quality insufficiency such as seeping, leakage, blocking and bubbling; promote the slope-roof design, eliminate the seeping or leakage on roof or the cracking or seeping at the top of outer walls; boost the supplying mode of residential house from primary decoration to the menu-based full decoration proactively.
4) Establish the quality responsibility system of residential house, ensuring all kind of residential house quality faults to be definitely settled. Intensify the approval system of plan and design to guarantee and improve the design quality; improve the team building of residential house plan and design, and carry out the market entry system; fully promote the social supervision system of residential house design, project bidding and project construction, in order to put the residential house quality under all-way control; strictly follow the regulations of residential house construction completion, delivery and use as well as the quality guarantee system of newly-built residential house, in order to make the residents be satisfied with the purchase houses.
3. Promote the development of residential house industry modernization proactively.
Focused on building the "4 high" model residential community, and target at quality improvement, efficiency improvement, resource consumption reduction, and cost improvement to work out and promote the development plan of residential house industry modernization; build and complete the promotion system of residential house industry modernization, including the decision-making layer made up of Shanghai Residential Industry Modernization Leading Team, its office, and the professional consultant committee, the promotion layer mainly made up of the related government authorities, and the implementation layer made up of design unit, enterprises in business of building materials production and selling, real-estate development company, construction enterprise, and property management company, as well as the evaluation system mainly constituted by the evaluation authorities; establish and utilize well the development fund for residential house industry modernization, and promote the development and application of science research and the outcome; firmly set the trials, carry the residential industry modernization on building modern residential community, and based on the performance certification of residential house commodity, the authentication of residential house parts, and the promotion of "4 new" fruits, work out the proper industry policies that both facilitate the promotion of residential house industry modernization and guarantee the stable realization of it.
4. Perfect the supporting construction of municipal, public and official facilities in the residential communities step by step.
1) Based on the constructions of main urban infrastructure such as the construction of outer circle, the renovation of Suzhou River and the laying of primary sewage pipelines, promote the compiling, completion and organized implementation of professional district plan, and further improve the main municipal supporting conditions of approved residential house bases.
2) Make full use of the constructed large-capacity track transportation facilities, regulate and perfect the transportation networks of community residents, and build more than 10 distributing centers between the inner and outer circles.
3) The municipal, public facilities and the public buildings shall be massively applied with the new-type supporting equipments and technologies featured with high technical content, safety, durability and low cost, in order to improve substantively the intelligence level of the IC-based water, electricity and gas metering system, the safeguard system, and the community service in the residential communities.
4) Further improve the management of residential house supporting construction to make it standardized and legalized; based on the latest requirement of community construction, revise the official supporting construction standard; make full use of market system, bypass the supporting construction investment rationally, and carry out the supporting construction system of "investor-owned, and investor-benefited" to the commercialized official facilities; the main official constructions in the district center shall be market-oriented to introduce the investment; strengthen the use management of public facilities in the residential community, the stadium or gymnasium and the school sports field shall be opened to public gradually in organized way, in order to relieve the insufficiency of community cultural facilities and increase the utilization rate.
5. Smooth channels proactively to promote the benign circle of the construction and consumption fund of residential house.
In order to reach the target of residential house development in 2015, it's crucial to guide and promote the house consumption as well as guarantee the construction and consumption fund of residential house. According to the fixed price in 1990s that averagely 2,900 RMB is invested to 1-square meters construction area of residential house, it's estimated that at least 203 billion RMB are needed to build 70 million to 75 million square meters of residential houses in Shanghai from 2001 to 2005. The general idea is to ensure the source of construction fund based on the new system of "government support, pay to improve, enterprise participate, and market-oriented".
6. Promote the remolding of old residential houses and the protection of excellent building scene area proactively in the policy of "dismantle, remold and maintain".
According to the requirement of city function positioning and rational urban population distribution, work out the city old house remolding plan to guide the city old house remolding orderly and keep away from the eagerness for quick success and instant benefit; go on with the application of "2 positivities" to break the remolding plan down to each district and apply favorable policies to the district with heavy remolding task; go on with the "convert platform to slope" along the sightseeing roads or regions, and remove part of the residential roof water tank along with the remolding; strictly control the building capacity in the whole-set remolding to enable it to regulate its layout, add new equipment, improve the inner and outer environment as well as mitigate the residents based on keeping the original building features and structure architectures.
7. Promote the orderly development of rural residential house construction
Build a model residential community in Songjiang New City, and handle well the construction trials of Baoshan Yangbai Central Village, Nanhui Taoyuan Central Village, Pudong Gaodong Central Village, Tangzhen Dazhong Village, Minhang Qibao Zhonghua Village and Jinshan Fengjing Central Village. With the trials, take high standpoint to promote the construction of village residential house step by step in the layered way, in order to achieve the goal of "Change in the 1st year, and make progress in 3 years". Focus on the planning design, carry out the principle of "save land, improve environment, protect feature, and comply with reality", include the farmer's houses as part of the residential communities of the central villages or towns, and further guide the merge of natural village. Harmonize the management system of rural residential house, strictly manage the construction land used for rural residential house, and control the unrestricted development of natural development. Put emphasis on the settlement of municipal and official supporting construction in rural residential house, and guarantee the health development of village construction.
8. Strengthen the industry management of residential house construction and the compiling and perfection of related policies and laws.
Take the chance of the promulgation of "Shanghai Municipal Management of Residential House Construction", work out a series of standardization documents regarding the management of residential house, so as to establish the legal system of residential construction and management; accelerate the revision and perfection of legacy stipulations and systems, and work out 10 or more standardization documents according to the requirement of strengthening the all-way management of residential house construction; as to the puzzles and problems emerged in the development of residential house construction but with no legal basis, work out the reports with certain quality by carrying out investigations, in order to make the prophase preparations for building and completing the legal system of residential house construction.

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