East China’s Jiangsu province has made unremitting efforts to improve housing conditions for the rural people in the northern regions and the urban needy.
In Tiaohe Village, Chengji Town, Lianshui County, Sun Xiulin has never imagined the changes her family has experienced in recent years.
Sun Xiulin, Villager in Tiaohe Village, Chengji Town, Lianshui County
We moved into a new house
of 147 square meters
There are three rooms upstairs
Living in this new house is very comfortable
A few years ago, Sun Xiulin’s old house was in disrepair and leaked everywhere. Before it rained, Sun had to put a rainproof film on the wall.
In 2018, Jiangsu began to focus on improving rural housing in northern Jiangsu. The villagers of Tiaohe Village rejoiced.
With two-story small buildings built in the village, the environment gradually became more beautiful and vegetable plots were set aside in advance, making everyone increasingly happy.
Zhang Shuping, Villager in Tiaohe Village
The new village is very convenient
There is an activity center for the elderly
a kindergarten, and a supermarket
The environment in the urban community
is not so good as our community
Chen Zhengdong, Secretary of the Party Branch of Tiaohe Village, Chengji Town
With Tiaohe community as the center
there are fruit and vegetable gardens
mushroom gardens, potato gardens
and watermelon gardens
The villagers are employed near their homes
and the monthly income
is increased by more than 1,000 yuan
Over the past three years, Jiangsu has followed the wishes of the people, insisted on the improvement of rural housing in northern Jiangsu by building a number of modern villages and towns that are ecologically livable and desirable.
At present, Jiangsu has achieved the goal of intensively improving the housing conditions of 300 thousand farmers in northern Jiangsu. More farmers in northern Jiangsu are living in modern cities and towns, and rural areas in northern Jiangsu have also taken on a new look.
In the cities, Jiangsu has adopted a variety of measures to continuously improve multi-subject supply, multi-channel guarantee, and simultaneous rental and purchase to improve the living environment, so that more and more people can live in good houses and lead a good life.
Li Haochun, a 23-year-old Beijing-born university graduate, joined an agricultural technology research and development company in Nanjing in July and lived in a "talent apartment" in Pukou District.
Li Haochun, Employee of an Agricultural Technology Research and Development Company in Nanjing
The two of us rented a 65-square-meter apartment
for 18 yuan per square meter
Basically, we paid more than 500 rent per month
The rent pressure was very small
Jiangsu has built 3.74 million sets of various types of affordable housing, and a total of more than 10 million urban permanent residents have enjoyed the results of housing security.
