Recently, Heilongjiang Province held a provincial housing and urban-rural development work conference to review and summarize the work in 2023 and deploy tasks for 2024.

　　The conference pointed out that in 2023, the province's housing and urban-rural development system focused on stabilizing the economy and ensuring growth, improving housing to benefit the people, building facilities to shore up weak links, advancing reform to promote development, and preventing risks to ensure safety, and successfully completed all tasks and objectives.

　　The conference emphasized that in 2024, the province's housing and urban-rural development system should focus on the primary task of high-quality development and sustainable revitalization, adhere to the principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability, promoting stability through progress, and establishing the new before abolishing the old, and focus on eight areas of work: First, improve and perfect the housing security system and market system, adhere to the positioning that "houses are for living in, not for speculation," actively build a new model for real estate development, make every effort to maintain the stable operation of the real estate market, systematically advance the construction of "good houses," continuously optimize housing provident fund management and services, effectively prevent and resolve risks in the real estate sector, and strive to ensure that the people of Longjiang have "a home for everyone, occupied homes, and good homes for all." Second, accelerate the pace of transformation and upgrading of the construction industry. Adhere to deepening reform as the focal point, cultivate and strengthen construction enterprises, continuously purify the construction market environment, solidly advance innovative development, accelerate the improvement and perfection of the standards system, promote high-quality development of the survey and design industry, and create high-quality building products. Third, steadily implement the urban renewal action, comprehensively carry out urban physical examinations, accelerate the filling of gaps in residential environment facilities, and intensify the protection and inheritance of historical and cultural heritage. Fourth, step up efforts to promote green and low-carbon development in urban and rural areas, fight and win the battle against pollution, vigorously advocate green and low-carbon production and lifestyles, accelerate the construction of urban parks and green spaces, and continuously meet the people's new needs and expectations for a high-quality ecological environment. Fifth, vigorously implement the rural construction action, comprehensively complete post-disaster housing reconstruction, continue to advance the renovation of dilapidated rural houses, improve the effectiveness of the rural domestic waste treatment system, and strengthen the protection and utilization of traditional villages. Sixth, insist on placing safety in a more prominent position, carry out actions such as the root-cause treatment and fundamental improvement of safety production in the housing and municipal engineering field, consolidate the return-visit responsibilities of the five parties, thoroughly investigate and rectify risks and hidden dangers in construction, urban and rural housing, urban gas, and other areas, and build a solid barrier for intrinsic safety in the housing and urban-rural development field. Seventh, improve the informatization level of municipal infrastructure, urban operation management, and industry safety supervision, and make cities smarter and more intelligent. Eighth, adhere to managing cities well for the people, continuously optimize the business environment, accelerate the progress of industry legislation, standardize law enforcement conduct in urban management, and improve the rule-of-law, scientific, and refined level of urban management.