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Revamp of old urban areas to be accelerated

Source: Xinhua | 00:00 UTC+8 June 20, 2019 |

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THE State Council, China’s Cabinet, plans to accelerate the regeneration of old residential areas in cities, urging faster progress in upgrading the electric grid as well as expanding access to safe drinking water in rural areas.

An executive meeting of the State Council chaired by Premier Li Keqiang yesterday called for implementing major projects that can meet people’s needs and spur domestic demand to boost effective investment.

Regeneration projects, which are expected to cover an estimated 100 million urban residents, will focus on improving facilities for water, electricity, gas and optical fiber cable in old residential areas.

Better water supply

Central government subsidies will be allocated this year to fund the regeneration.

Financial institutions and local governments will be encouraged to increase sustainable financial support for the upgrades.

In terms of rural electric grid upgrades, each provincial-level area should ensure that tasks designated in the 13th Five-Year Plan should be completed a year in advance this year.

More efforts should also be made to reduce electricity access time for enterprises to improve the business environment.

The meeting highlighted faster drinking water project construction to fully resolve issues such as inadequate water supply and excessive fluorine for 60 million rural residents next year.

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