On April 29, 2022, a self-built house in Changsha City, Hunan Province, suddenly collapsed as a whole on Kaiyuan Avenue, like thunder, affecting thousands of households.
The tragedy claimed 53 precious lives, most of them students and migrant workers. They should have been full of blood and struggled to move forward, but in an instant, they collapsed, and dozens of families fell into bottomless despair. The owner of the building where the incident occurred is named Guo Mouping, and it was an ordinary four-story self-built house on Kaiyuan Avenue. However, because of the desire for lucrative rental income, Guo Mouping violated the regulations and added two floors without the approval of the regulatory authorities.
The construction period is in a hurry, the quality is off the standard, and the housing structure is seriously hidden danger. A fraudulent "test report" became the last straw, and the dangerous building finally collapsed on the last day of April. When the news came out, the people of Changsha were shocked. The citizens on the road stopped one after another, and they couldn't bear to look directly at the tragic situation;The wanderers could not hide their grief, and could only express their condolences to the unfortunate fellow villagers through **;The cries of the victims' families were heartbreaking, making passers-by red-eyed.
For a time, a city like Changsha was filled with smog-like sadness. After the incident, Guo Mouping's serious violations of the law were severely punished. But the lives that have been lost cannot be recovered, and the people's pity for the victims has not been restored for a long time. This tragedy that happened around us warns every corner to pay attention to the safety of human life. After the occurrence of Changsha, Shandong, Jiangsu and other provinces and cities quickly responded and launched special rectification actions for the safety of self-built houses. All kinds of self-built houses have been caged in the net, and a comprehensive investigation is in full swing.
As a major province of self-built housing, Shandong took the lead in launching a comprehensive 100-day battle. As of 2022, there are 6.5 million self-built houses of various types in the province, and about 580,000 commercial buildings. It can be said that the number is huge and the management is full of loopholes. Under the warning of Changsha, Shandong did not hesitate to choose to act arbitrarily, and planned to complete the comprehensive investigation and rectification of nearly 600,000 commercial buildings within 3 months.
At the same time, Jiangsu is also in full swing to carry out the renovation of self-built houses. According to the provincial deployment, whether it is a township industrial park, a tourist attraction, or a rural market, all self-built houses must be inspected in an all-round way. Under the premise of strictly abiding by relevant laws and regulations, Jiangsu will conduct a detailed investigation of the fire protection, structure, electrical and other conditions of all kinds of self-built houses of business nature, and comprehensively eliminate potential safety hazards.
We have reason to believe that under the strict inspection of local ** and regulatory departments, new illegal acts may be stopped in time, and existing potential safety hazards will be eliminated one by one. The supervision of self-built houses will usher in an all-round improvement.
In the process of self-built housing renovation, we found that there are still a lot of hidden dangers in rural areas. These non-business self-built houses are mainly concentrated in four categories: privately built and disorderly built, old and dilapidated houses, built without approval, and built on illegal land occupation. Nowadays, many rural areas have taken on a new look, but it is still difficult to hide the unnamed "small buildings" at the head and end of the village, in front of the door and behind the house. They are varied, some are just temporary installations for passers-by, and some have become places for piling up debris for many years.
These buildings not only have a serious impact on the rural landscape, but also cause concern in terms of quality and safety. In an inspection after Changsha, tens of thousands of such private buildings were found in a county. In addition, dilapidated and dilapidated houses can also be seen everywhere. Most of these houses are old, unplanned, with loose walls and improper maintenance.
Surveys show that in Jiangsu alone, there are still more than a million mud-tiled houses built in the fifties and sixties. Of course, there are also new houses built in violation of regulations. For example, the illegal construction of commercial houses on collective construction land, such cases have been repeatedly banned in the local area. There are also "new houses" like the owners of Changsha, who have been renovated and expanded without permission, which are even more hidden dangers. This type of building is often of poor quality and full of loopholes in safety supervision, which must be taken seriously.
Although the self-built housing renovation action has won the support of the people as an important measure to ensure the safety of people's lives and property, it will also face many problems in the process. First, it involves too many areas and the task is arduous. For example, the number of self-built houses in Shandong Province is as high as 6.5 million, of which there are as many as 580,000 commercial buildings. To complete the investigation and remediation in a short period of time, the difficulty can be imagined. The investment of manpower and material resources alone is staggering.
Second, classification guidance needs to be strengthened. The types of self-built houses and the areas in which they are located vary widely, and the severity of safety hazards also varies. However, in many places, there are problems of sloppy regulatory measures and hasty rectification steps, resulting in one-size-fits-all or even counterproductive effects. This requires the local government to further improve the ability of classification and guidance, and carry out rectification according to local conditions.
Third, some farmers may find it difficult to withstand the pressure of rectification. Renovating and renovating old and dilapidated houses and other self-built houses is undoubtedly a heavy burden for many rural households with poor economic conditions. If the remediation measures are too arbitrary, they may cause strong dissatisfaction among farmers. In this regard, local governments and regulatory departments must take effective measures to steadily promote the renovation of self-built houses. First of all, increase human and financial support to ensure the smooth progress of the rectification action.
Secondly, classify and guide the remediation objects and formulate targeted transformation plans. Finally, through policy inclination, we will help the difficult groups to complete rectification and eliminate hidden dangers to the greatest extent. Only by doing the above points and making the rectification action full of determination and proportion, can we safeguard the vital interests of the peasant masses while improving the safety of self-built houses in rural areas.
The renovation of self-built houses is a systematic project, which tests the best management level and the consciousness of the masses. In the process of rectification, it is necessary to strengthen the construction of the legal system, urge departments to perform their duties and responsibilities, and severely punish illegal actsThe broad masses of the people should also consciously cooperate with inspections, support rectification, and jointly safeguard the safety of life and property. Only by working together with the people can we ensure that the rectification action is implemented. While consolidating the achievements of governance in the past, it is also necessary to strengthen the safety planning and management of rural housing construction in the future.
Allowing the people to live in safe and good houses is our constant goal. In the process of rectifying the work, the safety problem of self-built houses in rural areas will also be comprehensively solved. At that time, people will truly feel the safety, convenience and beauty of life.