The national video conference on effectively ensuring housing delivery held a few days ago proposed to "solidly advance the 'three major projects' of building affordable housing, renovating urban villages, and constructing 'dual-use for peacetime and emergency' public infrastructure."

Accelerating the construction of the "three major projects" is both beneficial to the people and a plan for development. At present, all regions and departments are promptly improving various supporting policies, promoting the implementation of a batch of projects, and generating tangible work output. Starting today, this edition launches the "Focus on the 'Three Major Projects'" series of reports to showcase new explorations and new achievements in various regions.

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Planning and building affordable housing is a major reform to improve the housing system and supply system and to restructure the relationship between the market and social security. It helps ease housing conflicts in large cities, helps advance the transformation and high-quality development of real estate in a vigorous, orderly, and effective manner, and helps better stimulate investment and consumption and promote the sustained recovery and improvement of the macroeconomy.

A relevant official from the Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development told reporters that the original housing security system was mainly composed of public rental housing and government-subsidized rental housing; the current housing security system is divided into rental-type and sale-type, of which the rental type includes public rental housing and government-subsidized rental housing, and the sale-type affordable housing is sold at the principle of covering costs with modest profits.

Recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, together with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and other departments, has earnestly implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, formed a supporting policy system for planning and building affordable housing, and clarified support policies on land, fiscal and tax matters, and finance; at the same time, by holding on-site meetings, conducting policy training, and strengthening work scheduling, it has guided and urged all regions to accelerate the construction of affordable housing.

At present, all regions are accelerating the introduction of local implementation opinions and supporting policies, and have made positive progress in ensuring land supply and accelerating project implementation.

In terms of eligible groups, all regions are accelerating the establishment of a waiting-list mechanism, gaining a clear understanding of the needs of wage-earning groups, and determining construction according to demand. For example, Dongguan, Guangdong, carries out regular registration of willingness to purchase affordable housing for all citizens, combining the survey of willingness to purchase affordable housing with the building of a waiting list.

In terms of ensuring land supply, all regions focus on tapping existing land resources, clearing and recovering idle land, and locating affordable housing in areas with convenient transportation and complete supporting facilities. Shenzhen, Guangdong, proposed the "four follows" development strategy (following industrial parks, following large institutions, following rail transit, and following the revitalization of resources), so that the construction of affordable housing resonates with urban development and industrial development.

In terms of accelerating project implementation, all regions are accelerating project commencement and building affordable housing according to the "good housing" standards of green, low-carbon, intelligent, and safe. Hangzhou, Zhejiang, has compressed approval time through a series of measures such as parallel processes in land supply, project approval, and design plan approval, achieving visual display and supervision throughout the entire life cycle.

At present, Xi'an, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and other cities have started construction of a batch of affordable housing projects. Fuzhou** sale-type affordable housing has accepted the first round of application registration.