Recently, the General Office of the Municipal Government issued the "Implementation Opinions on Actively and Steadily Promoting the Transformation of Urban Villages to Achieve High-quality Development" (Shen Fu Ban Gui [2024] No. 1, hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Opinions"), and the "Implementation Opinions" are hereby interpreted as follows:
1. What is the necessity of issuing the Implementation Opinions?
First, it is an important measure to conscientiously implement the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on the transformation of urban villages. In July 2023, the General Office of the State Council issued the Guiding Opinions on Actively and Steadily Promoting the Transformation of Urban Villages in Super and Mega Cities (hereinafter referred to as the "Guiding Opinions"). Actively and steadily promoting the transformation of urban villages is an important measure for the city to implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, practice the people-centered development thinking, and promote the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capacity.
The second is to effectively eliminate the security risks and hidden dangers of urban villages and promote the need for high-quality urban development. Some urban villages in our city have outstanding problems such as high public health and safety risks, many hidden dangers in housing safety and fire safety, backward supporting facilities, dirty and messy environment, and difficult social governance, so it is urgent to promote the transformation in a vigorous, orderly and effective manner, effectively eliminate safety risks and hidden dangers, improve living conditions and ecological environment, enhance the quality of urban functions and comprehensive carrying capacity, and continuously enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness and security.
The third is to standardize the transformation of urban villages in our city and ensure the needs of the implementation of the project. The transformation of urban villages involves a wide range of complex situations, and it is urgent to issue relevant policy documents to clarify the overall requirements, implementation points and organizational guarantees, standardize the work process, and ensure that the transformation of urban villages is carried out in a steady and orderly manner in accordance with laws and regulations.
2. What are the basic principles of urban village transformation?
Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, strictly follow the requirements of the "Guiding Opinions", adhere to the problem-oriented, goal-oriented, and seek before acting, insist that the market plays a decisive role in the allocation of resources, better play the role of the government, and adhere to the basic principle of the municipal and district governments fulfilling their main responsibilities, and actively and steadily promote the transformation of urban villages in our city.
3. What is the object of urban village transformation?
The specific scope of the area mainly occupied and used by the successor units of the original rural collective economic organizations and the original villagers in the administrative area of Shenzhen will be clarified in the urban village transformation plan.
4. What are the ways to transform urban villages?
The transformation methods of urban villages can be divided into three categories: demolition and new construction, renovation and upgrading, and combination of demolition and consolidation: demolition and new construction of urban villages that meet the conditions;
The specific transformation method is guided by the urban village transformation plan, and comprehensively determined by combining factors such as residents' willingness to transform, urban safety and social governance hidden dangers, and protection of historical and cultural features.
5. How to delineate the scope of implementation of the urban village reconstruction project?
In principle, the implementation scope of the urban village reconstruction project is based on the scope of the whole village, and a small amount of inefficient or scattered land in the surrounding area can be integrated to ensure the relative integrity of municipal infrastructure and public service facilities, and the implementation of regional overall planning and development is encouraged.
6. What are the key points for the implementation of the demolition of new urban village reconstruction projects?
To dismantle a newly-built urban village renovation project, it is necessary to carry out the work of soliciting willingness, project feasibility study, verification of basic information, preparation of implementation plan and unit planning, introduction of cooperative units, relocation compensation and resettlement, land clearing and storage, land transfer, development and construction, etc.
7. How to protect the legitimate rights and interests of property owners?
The demolition of a new urban village reconstruction project shall be carried out only with the consent of more than two-thirds of the property rights holders, and with the consent of the successor unit of the original rural collective economic organization in accordance with the relevant provisions on collective asset management and the company's articles of association. In the process of urban village transformation, it is necessary to listen to the opinions of the successor units of the original rural collective economic organizations and property rights holders on the comprehensive plan for urban village transformation, the expropriation compensation plan, and the disposal of collective assets, so as to protect their right to know and the right to participate. In terms of the construction of resettlement housing, we will first arrange for the land supply and construction of resettlement housing projects, strengthen the planning, design and construction management of resettlement housing, and ensure that the resettlement housing is completed within a reasonable construction period.
8. How to determine the compensation standard for the reconstruction and relocation of newly built urban villages?
The city will study and issue relocation compensation guidelines in accordance with the principles of classification and approval, policy convergence, implementation and cost controllability in combination with the compensation of various projects such as urban renewal, land preparation, and housing expropriation. The relocation compensation standard for the demolition of new urban village reconstruction projects shall be determined in accordance with the relocation compensation guidelines.
9. How to introduce the cooperative units for the renovation of newly built urban villages?
Under the premise of determining the planning indicators, selection conditions and net land transfer, the government shall establish a competitive access mechanism in accordance with the principle of openness and merit, and organize the use of public bidding, invitation to bidding, competitive consultation and other methods to select high-quality cooperative units to assist in carrying out relevant work.
10. What are the key points for the implementation of the renovation and upgrading of urban village transformation projects?
For the urban villages included in the spatial scope of renovation and upgrading, the first is to carry out investigation and assessment of the current situation and establish a basic information ledger; the second is to respect the wishes of residents, compile the implementation plan for rectification and upgrading, determine the content of the management of safety risks and hidden dangers, clarify the improvement or improvement content of public facilities, and do a good job in the protection of historical and cultural inheritance; The enthusiasm of property rights holders and various social entities will accelerate the improvement of the level of property management services in urban villages, and guide urban village residents to widely participate in community co-construction.
11. What are the key points for the implementation of the urban village transformation project combining demolition and consolidation?
In the urban village reconstruction project of demolition and consolidation, on the premise of collecting the wishes of relevant rights holders and feasibility study, comprehensively considering factors such as the elimination of safety risks and hidden dangers, the spatial scope of demolition and remediation shall be delineated, and the plan for the combination of demolition and rectification shall be prepared to promote the implementation of the project as a whole. Among them, if it is within the scope of remediation, the implementation plan shall be prepared and organized in accordance with the renovation and upgrading urban village renovation project, and if it is within the scope of demolition, the demolition and new construction implementation plan and the renovation unit plan shall be prepared and implemented in accordance with the demolition and new urban village renovation project.
12. How to connect the old and new policies?
In the process of promoting the transformation of urban village transformation methods, the old and new policies should be connected, and relevant policies should be studied and formulated separately.
Source: "First Scene" Synthesis