What used to be low-rise shantytowns is now a booming economy

Outside the window, a spring rain at the end of March was pouring down and knocking on the glass. Standing in the spacious and warm hall, 67-year-old Wang Jianming looked up from time to time and stared carefully at the ceiling, blinking vigorously.

　　"Rest assured, the roof walls won't leak rain." We have all lived in the Quanheyuan community for five years, and we are no longer running rats on our heads, flying mosquitoes and flies in the house, entering the steamer basket in the summer, and sleeping in the ice cellar in the winter. The difficulties of the past were ridiculed by Tian Junhong, an old partner who loves to laugh, as "slipping by the mouth". Lao Wang shook his head while laughing: "When it rains, I am worried that the 'old problem' of taking water outside the house has to be changed." The shantytowns have been transformed, the hard days are gone, and what awaits us is a good day! ”

　　If shantytown is synonymous with dirty and messy, it was once the largest shantytown in the six districts of Tianjin - only 640,000 square meters of land is inhabited by more than 10,000 households and more than 30,000 residents in the Xiyuzhuang area, and the living environment is unknown to everyone. In 1955, Wang Jianming was born here, and the whole family of five was crammed into a cottage of more than 10 square meters. If it is the "tight bar" of life, it can still be "bursting" because of the family's ordinary but warm little luck, but a big or small rain really makes him urinate to develop a "sense of distress".

　　"Have you ever heard a cross-talk: it rains heavily outside the house, and it rains lightly inside the house. Xiyuzhuang is a 'triple jumping pit', rainwater poured in from the main road, to say that the road area of water is one inch, the alley has to be a foot, the home may be more than half a meter deep. No matter how much we put baffles and sandbags in front of the house, we couldn't stop the rain from pouring into the house. In addition, the bungalows are all loess fortifications, the rain is slightly heavier, all leaking in along the roof and wall cracks, like entering the water curtain hole, our whole family takes pots and pans to dig water outside the house, just like 'flood prevention and rescue'. If you want to say that it rains overnight, then sleep, simply don't take the water, our speed can't catch up with the rain speed. Quickly transfer the food to the kang and watch the rest of the belongings in the house soak in the water and float on the water. Catching up with the heavy rain, the kangtou was flooded. It is said that everyone in Tianjin can speak cross-talk, and Wang Jianming also carries the optimism and humor that the old Tianjin Wei has.

　　In the 1980s, the three words "Xiyuzhuang" were like a "magic spell", and no one girl wanted to marry her. However, at that time, 25-year-old Oda recognized that Xiao Wang, who was the same age, had good character and self-motivation, but the conditions in Xiyuzhuang were harsh and backward, which really caught her off guard when she was immersed in the joy of her new marriage. "It's like marrying into a zoo, running rats back and forth on the roof and in the sewer pipe, especially at night, the noise is so loud that people can't sleep all night." Yards, alleys, flies and mosquitoes fly everywhere, and then look at the house more completely: cockroaches, ants, centipedes, tide insects... There are also all kinds of bugs that can't be named. Over the years, whenever he listened to Tian Junhong's heartless broken thoughts, the husband always repaid his wife's support by "doubling down on her and the children". And "When will we be able to live in the building?" "It became their greatest expectation in their bitter and happy days...

　　Shantytowns are historical debts and urban scars. Slum houses are never allowed behind tall buildings!

　　"Xiyuzhuang is going to be demolished, this time it is not a shouting, the municipal party committee and the municipal government are determined to move." I just finished the demolition mobilization meeting today, and I was elected as a resident representative by everyone, so we really have hope! December 20, 2013 – Although nearly a decade has passed, the old couple will always remember this evening, Tian Junhongfei rushed into the house and could not wait to announce the good news. Subsequently, the relocated cadres came to the door to help each family tailor the relocation plan. House selection, signing, house viewing, getting the keys, decoration... The old two mouths sighed in one breath, "We are all sixty years old, and we are looking forward to moving one day early!" ”

　　Shantytown transformation, Hongqiao District is the most task-intensive, accounting for nearly half of the city's total. Tian Junhong, a representative of residents who has experienced the whole process of demolition and relocation, knows best: Most of the shantytowns are low-income people with difficult conditions, and the Hongqiao shantytowns have to add the word "more" - there are many extremely poor households, many illegal households, and many disputed households... All kinds of imaginable and unintended difficulties. However, whether it is the Xiyuzhuang area that was transformed first, or the city's implementation of the "three-year zero" action plan for the transformation of urban shantytowns since 2017, or the Hongqiao District's self-imposed pressure to increase the additional shed reform tasks of 75,100 square meters such as Tuanjie Village and Guojia Vegetable Garden, the most she and her neighbors heard was that more than 1,300 Hongqiao cadres hung on their lips with a sentence of "No matter how difficult it is, it must be demolished, everything is people-centered, and the people are not afraid of taking advantage of it!" "In the Face of Difficulties and Multiple Measures in Hongqiao District, there were finally results in the early and over-completion of 737,700 square meters and 33,300 shantytowns on November 1, 2019, benefiting more than 150,000 residents."

　　Spring and sunshine reflect The garden street. Peach blossoms and magnolias bloom on the streets and communities, new shoots emerge from the branches, sanitation trucks sweep away the old dust of the spacious streets, and the residents of the once shantytowns can really see and feel the happiness, sense of gain, and satisfaction today. "Out of the elevator is my home, you look at more than 20 square meters of large room hall, this is 8 square meters of kitchen, how bright, I will take you to see the bathroom, 5 square meters, do not worry about stopping the water, finally can take a hot bath." Air conditioners, water heaters, washing machines, all at home, just like a dream! Through video chat, Wang Jianming excitedly led reporters to visit the 90-square-meter two-bedroom apartment where the old couple lived, "Let me recall that on May 12, 2017, the first day of moving into a new home, the two of us also transferred from this house to that house, turning and turning, looking at it, every corner is not known how many times, the beauty in my heart." ”

　　"When I first moved in, the hospital, school, vegetable market and other living facilities were basically complete, and I lived for five years, and now I am more perfect." For example, the bus, when it first moved in, there was only one 367 bus, and now it has increased to four lines, which are accessible in all directions. Several new banks have been opened at the door, supermarkets have opened into the community, and the drugs in the health center are becoming more and more complete... Good days are given by the party and the government, and we must always be grateful to the party and follow the party. Lao Wang is also an old party member, he joined the community volunteers, in addition to the weekday tour, responsible for garbage classification, etc., but also "claimed" 7 community living alone, widowed, disabled elderly, into the home care. At present, he and his wife and children are on the front line of the epidemic, volunteering in the community sieve and guiding residents to queue up in an orderly manner. Like all residents who "go out of the shed and enter the building", they are full of expectations for a new life.

　　Hongqiao District released 3,000 mu of land resources through the transformation of shantytowns, some of which are used to build new schools, new parks, community day care centers for the elderly, canteens for the elderly, vegetable markets, etc., and at the same time successively listed and sold a number of key plots, attracting large projects and good projects to take root and sprout again, they are growing into a new growth pole for scientific and technological innovation and economic development in Hongqiao District and even Tianjin, and continue to write a new chapter in the high-quality development of Tianjin City. (Tonight's reporter Shi Ying)