Street along the riverside has been built into a bustling business zone after renovation.
The original street along the riverside
Bustling business zone after renovation
During the decade after 1986, Zhongshan Municipal People’s Government has organized to build five residential districts in urban areas with the total area of 1.078 million square meters, which dealt with the living problems for the poor owning the per-capita living space below 8 square meters.
Boyuan New Village: a residential district aiding the poor
Huang Ziqiang, the then Zhongshan Mayor, received the Habitat Scroll of Honor Award, the highest award for human settlement in the world, from UN’s Human Settlement Center on Oct, 9th, 1997.
Zhongshan City awarded the Habitat Scroll of Honor Award
From 1987 to 2006, Zhongshan has invested more than 1.2 billion yuan to deal with the living problems in urban areas.
Zhongshan Municipal People’s Government runs low-rent-house project.
Majestic Garden and Sunshine & Flower Garden were awarded “National Excellent Well-off Residential Districts” by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and Ministry of Science &Technology and carried off six all-around excellent prizes in 2000.
Majestic Garden Residential Quarter
Zhongshan organized many real estate trade fairs to promote the development of real estate industry.
Real estate trade fair
In June 2005, Torch Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone constructed Wuqingwei New Village, the first residential garden for farmers, meeting the house-allocation-standard of 25 square meters per capita.
Wuqingwei New Village
Reconstruction of old town areas