Six Chinese Ministries Issue Guidelines on Renovating Old Neighborhoods and Factory Zones

TREE NEWS update: Six Chinese government departments, including the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, jointly issued guidelines on renovating and upgrading old urban neighborhoods and factory zones. Local authorities must use city inspection results to designate areas with aging housing and infrastructure, shortages of public services and space, and weak industrial vitality as renovation targets, and set the scope and implementation schedule. They must also draft project implementation plans that incorporate urban design requirements.