According to Xinhua News Agency, starting from 2024, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development will comprehensively carry out urban physical examinations in cities at and above the prefecture level across the country to find out the urgent problems of the people and the shortcomings that affect the sustainable development of cities.
Cities are not people, but they are organic life forms composed of and maintained by thousands of ordinary people, and they also need to do regular physical examinations to find out various problems in the process of urban operation and development, and provide data support for the subsequent improvement of social and public governance and services.
In fact, since 2018, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has begun to guide sample cities and pilot cities to carry out relevant urban physical examinations, trying to find and solve the problems of the people's urgency, hardship and longing, as well as the shortcomings and weaknesses that affect the competitiveness, carrying capacity and sustainable development of cities. The first economic work conference held on December 11 also clearly stated that it is necessary to implement urban renewal actions to build livable, resilient and smart cities. Earnestly protect and improve people's livelihood, insist on doing our best and doing what we can, and hold on, accurately, and firmly adhere to the bottom line of people's livelihood. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's nationwide urban physical examination may be regarded as a concrete implementation and positive response to the spirit of the first economic work conference.
Urban renewal and people's livelihood security have always been inseparable, and the physical examination, improvement and perfection of the corners of the city and the most basic units will inevitably be directly linked to the basic national economy and people's livelihood.
It is also based on this that the urban physical examination that will be launched nationwide this time, grasp the basic units closely related to the lives of residents, communities, and blocks, give full play to the traditional advantages of urban governance, and make efforts to find out the problems of substandard urban public infrastructure facilities, imperfect functions, and inadequate services, and list the problem ledger, enter the information platform and implement dynamic updates. From the discovery of problems to the operation of the wall chart, this series of urban renewal and governance activities triggered by physical examination undoubtedly points to the high-quality and high-level development of modern cities.
Physical examination for the city is not only a process of problem discovery and data collection, but also an opportunity to straighten out the problem discovery mechanism and open up the problem feedback channel. For example, the normalization of urban operation, the feedback and solution of the problems encountered by residents in firewood, rice, oil and salt, clothing, food, housing and transportation are mostly realized through the platforms and channels of 12345 government service convenience in various places, in which various specific problems and the most real expression of people's livelihood demands can also be synchronously collected into the statistical interface of this "urban physical examination" to sort out and find common problems and urge various departments to solve specific problems collaboratively.
From July 2023 to the present, Nandu, together with the Guangzhou Municipal Civilization Office and the Guangzhou Municipal Digital Bureau, has launched a series of columns entitled "The People Call for Me to Respond and Build a Better Guangzhou Together", focusing on the concerns of the people and the practical matters of people's livelihood. From the "alley lighting improvement special action" all over the corners of the city to the multi-department collaboration to break through the "old reform" problem of the gas pipeline network, from the leakage detection of water pipes to the continuous exploration of new water supply models, from the "one road, one plan" Xiguan old road micro-renovation to promote the installation of elevators in old buildings in ......"I will read the worries of the people;What the people want, I will do", it can be said that this is a pragmatic exploration of urban physical examination and urban renewal, and it is also a positive attempt of modern urban governance and interaction.
Urban physical examination is not only the premise of urban renewal and governance, but also the basis of urban governance and operation assessment. Urban renewal can no longer indulge in large-scale demolition and construction, and must return to the details of carving, which is an increasingly clear social consensus. It is a desirable idea to rejuvenate and revitalize the city by doing a physical examination for every corner of the city, exploring and building as much of the small and beautiful modern city as possible, further improving the urban spatial structure and functional layout, and making necessary scientific fine-tuning of the areas and functions in the city that may no longer be suitable for the social life of the modern city.
Physical examinations are not about creating problems, but about identifying and solving hidden dangers as early as possible, both for people and for cities. The development and renewal of modern cities should fully consider the urgent needs of every part of the population and every street and alley as much as possible, promote the improvement of urban details according to tailoring, and respond quickly to residents' urgent and difficult problems.