Original, please read this article, I hope it can help you. Uncle Zhao is used throughout the text. Under the leadership of the party, Beijing has undergone earth-shaking changes.
On a spring morning in March, as scheduled, I came to Jasmine Garden, a romantic and beautiful community in Beiyuan, for an interview. The theme was the changes that China’s thirty years of reform and opening up have brought to Beijing’s residents’ housing. changes.
The Jasmine Garden Community, built in 2000, has row upon row of high-rise buildings, well-located, and is surrounded by green belts that are flat and wide. Especially the pool of water in the center of the community makes people feel that the community is full of aura. I walked into Building 3, took the elevator to the 16th floor, and knocked on Uncle Zhao’s door.
Uncle Zhao is 76 years old and energetic. Before his retirement, he worked as an engineer at the General Chemical Plant. He enthusiastically let me in. "What a big living room!" I couldn't help but say. Uncle Zhao happily handed me tea and said: "Average, average." Then he introduced that he bought this apartment in 2003, with three bedrooms and one living room, with a total area of ??142 square meters and a living room of nearly 40 square meters. He continued: "I'm not afraid of your jokes. When I first moved here, I couldn't sleep for three days in a row. I was so excited. I didn't expect that I could live in such a good house at this old age. I Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the country's reform and opening up, and for the good policies of housing reform implemented by the party and the government. "The sunlight shines through the large floor-to-ceiling window screens, filling every corner of the living room, and also shines on Uncle Zhao's vicissitudes and folds, but also full of sunshine. A face of happiness and contentment.
When talking about the changes that reform and opening up under the leadership of the party have brought to Beijingers’ housing, Uncle Zhao suddenly opened up his chat box. He said, I have personally experienced this earth-shaking change. Before 1978, it was the residents who "worried" about their homes. At the beginning of the last century, it was initially achieved that residents "own" their own homes. Now, the government is helping us continue our struggle and move towards "excellent" homes for our residents. He slowly recalled...
As early as the 1970s, Uncle Zhao's family, three generations of eight people, lived in two bungalows with a total area of ??less than 24 square meters. What was advocated in that era was production first, life later; high accumulation, low consumption, and the speed of housing construction could not keep up with the growth of urban population. In 1978, the per capita housing area in Beijing was only 4.2 square meters. Later, Uncle Zhao's son got married and there was no room for him in the house, so he had to build a small shed in front of the house, which could only accommodate a double bed. It's not as good as the living conditions of Zhang Damin's family in the TV series "The Happy Life of Poor-tongued Zhang Damin". There was basically no furniture in the house, and a change of clothes and bedding were placed in a few cardboard boxes. When the weather is nice, you can cook outside. But when it's cloudy, rainy, or snowy, you have to bring the well-lit stove into the house to cook, and the room is filled with oily smoke.
At that time, urban residents only focused on “waiting, relying, and wanting” when dealing with housing. When the country builds housing, they rely on organizations to allocate housing, and ask their work units to provide housing. Uncle Zhao is also like this. He hopes that he will be allocated a room in his unit as soon as possible. However, in the state-owned chemical company where he works, there are countless people waiting in line for a room. The scene of room allocation is still fresh in Uncle Zhao’s memory: “As long as there is a slight disturbance, those who give gifts, hand out notes, those who are waiting for marriage and take a wife, those who threaten with kitchen knives...the threshold of the housing management department will be trampled. In fact, waiting for room allocation For most people, it is like looking at the moon in the water, and most of the time there is no result, but people still hope for it every day, think about it every month, and wait every year.”
Uncle Zhao’s family is in those two bungalows. Lived there for more than twenty years. He said that at that time he was particularly envious of people who lived in buildings. Although the buildings in Beijing at that time were all five-story gray residential buildings, except for a few "unit buildings", most of the buildings were simple buildings or tube buildings without independent kitchens and bathrooms.
The new housing era began in the 1980s. A watershed moment occurred in housing policy. On the one hand, "welfare housing" still dominates, on the other hand, the originally allocated "welfare housing" and various self-built public housing are resold to users at a discount. That is, in 1989, Uncle Zhao bought the two bungalows assigned to him by his work unit for just over 10,000 yuan, after deducting the depreciation of the house based on his years of service.
In a blink of an eye, it’s 1998. With the State Council's "Notice on Further Deepening Urban Housing Reform and Accelerating Housing Construction" as a symbol, the housing system reform is in full swing. Physical distribution of housing was cancelled, and housing distribution was monetized. The housing trajectories of many people have been fundamentally altered.
In 2000, the two small bungalows where Uncle Zhao lived were demolished and he received 360,000 yuan in demolition money. His five children pooled together another 300,000 yuan, and together with Uncle Zhao's years of savings, they spent more than 700,000 yuan to buy the current new building with good north-south transparency, realizing his dream of living in a building for many years. Uncle Zhao said: "One year after I bought the house, I was very excited when I got the red real estate book. I always thought that I was a proletarian all my life, but I never imagined that when I got old, I became a 'property owner' again. "Class. Haha!" I could hear that the old man's hearty laughter really came from his heart.
Yes, housing is one of the most basic needs for human survival. "Home ownership" has been the dream of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, famously wrote a poem: "The vast mansion houses tens of thousands of families, and the great shelter of the poor people all over the world makes them happy." Although it cannot be said that "everyone is happy" now, it is an indisputable fact that the housing of the broad masses of the people has been greatly improved in the past thirty years.
In the new century, Beijing, under the leadership of the Party, has accelerated the pace of housing construction.
In 2002, I clearly remember that when Jia Qinglin, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, first proposed in his report that Beijing would strive to take the lead in realizing modernization in the country, the audience burst into applause. When it was mentioned that the per capita housing area in Beijing would increase to 20 square meters in five years, all The scene of prolonged applause
The per capita housing area in Beijing was 18.2 square meters in 2002. It will reach 20 square meters in five years. How to achieve this goal? I interviewed Shen Baochang, then director of the Beijing Municipal Development and Planning Commission, and he said: "For a megacity like Beijing with a population of tens of millions, it is a great thing to achieve this goal. The per capita usable area of ??20 square meters is the city's average figure. , it cannot be achieved by everyone. Some households will exceed this number, some will be close, and some will have a gap. Therefore, the next step for the government to increase support for households with housing difficulties is to increase economic support. Strengthen the construction of housing and provide more low-rent housing to meet the housing purchase needs of middle-income people.
We have a set of data to witness the increase in the housing area of ??Beijingers in recent years: per capita housing in 2000. Used area: 16.6 sqm. 2002: 18.7 sqm. 2005: 19.06 sqm. /p>
Today, our party has fulfilled its promise five years ago. According to data provided by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics, the per capita housing area in Beijing was 20.75 square meters in the past five years. The average annual growth rate in 2007 was 3.1% compared to 1978.
Don’t just look at these data. They embody the expectations of many generations. Dreams, so many people's efforts, so many people's hardships!
Stepping out of Uncle Zhao's house, the lights of thousands of houses are already shining, and the community is even more beautiful from the windows of every house. The lights also look particularly warm. I deeply feel that China's reform is successful and the party's leadership is successful, because the people have really benefited from it, and the people's houses are really big, so they can live and work in peace. Only when people are happy with their work can the country develop, and only when the country develops can society be stable and harmonious.