From December 21st to 22nd, the National Conference on Housing and Urban-Rural Construction was held in Beijing. On December 22, the official website of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development released a message that the meeting systematically summarized the work in 2023, analyzed the situation, and clarified the key tasks in 2024. 
In the housing and real estate sector, it is necessary to adhere to the positioning that houses are for living, not for speculation, and adapt to the new situation of major changes in the relationship between supply and demand in the real estate market.
Stabilize the real estate market, adhere to city-specific policies, one city, one policy, and precise policies, meet the demand for rigid and improved housing, optimize real estate policies, continue to do a good job in ensuring the delivery of buildings, ensuring people's livelihood and stability, properly handle the risks of real estate enterprises, and rectify the order of the real estate market.
Construct a new model of real estate development, establish a new mechanism for the linkage of "people, housing, land and money", improve the basic system of the whole life cycle of housing from development and construction to maintenance and use, implement the construction of the "three major projects", accelerate the solution of the housing problems of new citizens, young people and migrant workers, and make efforts to build good houses and create a new track in the housing field.
In the urban and rural construction sector, we will actively promote urban renewal actions and do a detailed urban physical examination. Study the establishment of an urban design system, renovate a number of old urban communities, focus on solving the problems of installing elevators to enter the house on the flat floor, parking difficulties, etc., build a number of complete communities, make up for the shortcomings of facilities such as the old and the young, strengthen the construction of barrier-free environment and age-appropriate transformation, create a number of child-friendly space construction models, vigorously promote the transformation of urban underground pipe networks, implement urban drainage and flood prevention capacity improvement projects, further promote the construction of urban lifeline safety projects, promote the classification of urban domestic waste to improve quality and efficiency, and continue to promote the "pocket park". The construction of urban greenways explores the construction of parks, public toilets and waiting areas around primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, so as to provide convenience for parents who pick up and drop off their children.
To build beautiful villages and towns suitable for living and working, learn and use the experience of the "Ten Million Project", promote the construction of counties, towns and villages, select a number of county seats, and carry out actions to make up for shortcomings in facility construction based on physical examinations, promote the construction of small towns, continue to implement rural construction actions, and do a good job in the renovation of rural dilapidated houses and the seismic transformation of rural houses.
We will continue to strengthen the protection and inheritance of urban and rural history and culture, improve the system of laws and regulations, strengthen the overall protection of famous historical and cultural cities, towns and villages, historical and cultural blocks, historical buildings, and traditional villages, resolutely stop the phenomenon of constructive destruction, promote revitalization and utilization, and strengthen the protection and utilization of traditional villages.
In the construction sector, we will deepen the supply-side structural reform of the construction industry, continue to work industrialization, digitalization and green transformation, strive to provide high-quality building products for the whole society, and create an upgraded version of "Made in China".
Vigorously develop new construction methods, steadily promote the work of carbon peaking in the field of urban and rural construction, do a good job in the pilot of intelligent construction cities, and steadily develop prefabricated buildings.
Optimize the construction market environment, strengthen market supervision, and carry out high-quality debt settlement work for enterprises in the industry.
Strengthen the supervision of project quality and existing housing safety, start the rectification action of frequent problems in housing quality, do a good job in the pilot of housing physical examination, pension and insurance system, and carry out a three-year action to tackle the root cause of safety production in the field of housing municipal engineering.
Strengthen the management of fire inspection of construction projects, enrich the technical work force of fire inspection, improve the national fire protection technical standard system for engineering construction, organize and carry out special governance of fire protection inspection violations and regulations, severely crack down on the use of fake and shoddy building fire protection materials, facilities and equipment and technical services, and standardize market order.
The basic support sector adapts to the requirements of shifting from solving "whether it is good or not" to solving "whether it is good or not", vigorously strengthens basic work, and lays a solid foundation for promoting the high-quality development of housing and urban-rural construction.
Consolidate the foundation of the rule of law, implement the strategic deployment of comprehensive law-based governance, and further improve the level of rule of law in housing and urban-rural construction.
Improve engineering construction standards, focus on building good houses, issue residential project specifications, start from building floor height, elevators, sound insulation, green, intelligent, barrier-free, etc., improve residential construction standards, and promote engineering construction standards to "go global" in combination with the needs of foreign engineering projects along the "Belt and Road".
Strengthen the drive of science and technology, study the future-oriented good house construction technology, organize the preparation of a new batch of key laboratories and engineering technology innovation centers and other scientific and technological innovation platforms, and accelerate the implementation of "digital housing and construction".
Improve construction statistics, study the establishment of basic statistical databases and comprehensive statistical platforms for housing and urban-rural construction, and strengthen the application of data analysis.
Chen Wenjing, director of market research at the China Index Research Institute, believes that on the whole, this meeting further clarified the direction of the real estate policy in 2024, and China's housing development is entering the stage of "whether it is good or not" from "whether it is good or not". After more than two years of market overshoot, the real estate industry is expected to gradually stabilize in 2024 with the coordinated efforts of policies at both ends of supply and demand, and the "favorable factors" are increasing.
Yan Yuejin, research director of the E-House Research Institute, believes that this meeting has made important arrangements for housing and other related work in 2024, and will have a clearer understanding of "what to do" and "how to do". In terms of specific contents, the housing and real estate sector mentioned 2 contents, the urban and rural construction sector mentioned 4 contents, the construction industry sector mentioned 4 contents, and the basic support sector mentioned 8 contents. This shows that the housing and real estate sector is still the top priority of the work, and the two contents are ranked the highest, which is the work to be focused on in the future. At the same time, the concept of basic support plate has been significantly strengthened this time, which is actually the embodiment of the creation and development of the basic work of the new real estate development model, and it is also an important embodiment of "establishing first and then breaking".
The meeting made it clear that we should adhere to the positioning that the house is for living, not for speculation, and adapt to the new situation of major changes in the supply and demand relationship of the real estate market. Regarding the relevant statements of stabilizing real estate, Yan Yuejin believes that it is actually hoped that the recovery of the real estate market is premised on order and stability, otherwise the recovery under the chaos of order itself will also contain new risks. The most important expression of building a new model of real estate development is to "make efforts to build a good house and create a new track in the housing field". In other words, the current real estate field is facing the development opportunity to create a new track, and the key to truly moving towards this new track is to build a good house.
Text: Beijing Youth Daily reporter Song Xia.
Edited by Field.