Half Moon Talk 丨 City Magician, Sad face becomes smiley

City magician, sad face turned into a smile

Half Moon Talk Reporter Li Yong/Chen Guozhou/Liu Enli

Old buildings have been fitted with elevators, high-rise buildings have been replaced with flame-retardant awnings... Peng Deming, a veteran resident of Hao Community who has lived in Longmenhao Street in Chongqing's Nan'an District for decades, found that the old community where he lived was being rejuvenated like "magic". The "magician" behind it, the Nan'an District of Chongqing City, turned the masses' worries into creative projects one by one, and the citizens smiled happily.

The reader walks into the reading booth on Longmen Hao Old Street

"Seven optimizations" from small incisions to achieve great people's livelihood

Wang Yangang, a resident of Aishang Nanshan Community in Longmenhao Street, Nan'an District, recently returned home from work and no longer has to worry about parking. Originally, the barren slopes that had been idle for many years under the viaducts around the community were comprehensively rectified, and a convenient parking lot with 247 parking spaces was built.

At the beginning of this year, in the practical activity of "I do practical things for the masses", Chongqing Nan'an District launched the "seven optimizations" of urban renewal and quality improvement, starting from seven aspects of optimizing and improving the travel environment, optimizing the allocation of educational resources, optimizing medical and pension services, optimizing convenient commercial facilities, optimizing public activity spaces, optimizing the cultivation of industrial building parks and optimizing and improving community safety management, and doing practical things for the masses.

Yan Wei, secretary of the Nan'an District Party Committee of Chongqing Municipality, said that the "seven optimizations" start from the small things that the masses can feel most about the people's livelihood to achieve great people's livelihood.

Li Fuchun, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Longmenhao Street in Nan'an District, introduced that since the beginning of this year, 3 "pocket" parking lots have been built in Longmenhao Street, "These small projects are not large individually, but when they are gathered, they become a big people's livelihood."

The "City Opportunity Checklist" anchors the needs of the people

In the Mingyuetuo Farmers' Market in Guangyang Town, Nan'an District, in the past, the sound was noisy, the vegetable leaves were littered, and the sewage flowed, and Qin Biying, who lived nearby, also prepared a pair of "vegetable shoes" to go to the farmers' market.

Xu Zhaoyun, secretary of the Party Committee of Guangyang Town, said that in April this year, the Mingyuetuo Farmers' Market Renovation Project was included in the first batch of "Urban Opportunity List" released by the South Bank District, and in just two months, the Mingyuetuo Farmers' Market has changed greatly. At the same time, the winning bidders have also obtained stable income by integrating surrounding resources, adding 22 parking spaces and adding new booths.

Huang Hong, executive deputy mayor of Chongqing's Nan'an District, said that these opportunities in the "List of Urban Opportunities" are not specific projects that have matured and will be auctioned, but "opportunities" from the needs of the masses and reflect the future development direction of the city. The South Bank District prefers that enterprises provide a package of solutions that combine expanding consumption with improving people's quality of life.

It is understood that at present, the "List of Urban Opportunities" released by Chongqing South Bank covers 6 aspects and 62 contents such as urban renewal, urban-rural integration, and social governance, with an estimated investment amount of about 26.122 billion yuan.

The "Three Divisions" entered the community, and the projects needed by the masses landed

The Tongyuan Bureau area of Nan'an District has given birth to the first machinery factory in the history of Chongqing, lit the first electric lamp in Chongqing, is the gathering place of Chongqing's century-old industrial culture, and is also one of the areas with the highest concentration of old houses and factories in the main urban area of Chongqing. After the implementation of the "Seven Optimizations", He Shuaishuai, a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University who specializes in cultural heritage protection and urban development, became a community planner here.

Since the beginning of this year, many communities in the 15 towns of the South Bank District have community planners, planners and designers who are responsible for listening to the opinions of the masses, engaging in urban planning research, and turning the needs of the masses into specific projects. The "three divisions" are all professionals in the field of urban planning and design, and they help urban renewal and people's livelihood development by volunteering.

Bao Ruhua, deputy mayor of Nan'an District, said that there are many departments involved in people's livelihood work, and different people's livelihood projects have different implementation departments, which to a certain extent leads to the lack of overall planning and coordination of many people's livelihood projects. On the one hand, the "Three Divisions" collect the demands of the masses, collect local historical and cultural materials according to the overall planning of urban development, and plan and design for the local high-quality life; on the other hand, they find the combination point of projects and the needs of the masses, and form a "list of opportunities" to dock social resources and participate in diversified participation.

Huang Hong introduced that in order to build a smooth channel for collecting the needs of the masses, the South Bank District launched the "Three Divisions" into the community survey at the same time, integrated the original "Internet + Supervision" platform, 12345 government service hotline, South Bank micro-release "city hotline" and other mass demand collection channels, forming a unified collection platform, through big data analysis to find the "common denominator" of the masses' needs.

(Published in Half Moon Talk, No. 19, 2021)