The Guangzhou Construction Commission's reply to the proposals of Guangzhou Municipal CPPCC members reveal that the reconstruction and planning of "Villages-in-the-City" are to be brought into the area of urban construction planning so as to realize an effective management of the municipal facility in the "Villages-in-the-City" program. Henceforth, the problems of rough roads, lamp failures, flooding streets etc. are to be fundamentally improved via these changes.

During the sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of Guangzhou Municipality last year, Zhuang Guoping, a Guangzhou Municipal CPPCC member put forward a motion that, with the completion of retracting township and establishing streets and the gradual rural system changes, the municipal infrastructures of the "Villages-in-the-City" in Guangzhou have become increasingly problematic. Therefore, he suggested that the government increase the ratio of maintenance fees and add special funds for the reconstruction of municipal facilities in the "Villages-in-the-City", be established. These projects, which are to be taken over, planned and constructed uniformly by the municipal facility administration authority would benefit from these special funds.

The Guangzhou Construction Commission made it clear in its response to the motion that the reconstruction and planning of "Villages-in-the-City" (roads included) would be brought into the urban construction planning and management system and would be grouped with the short term construction planning in the future. Cited as an example was the construction of such municipal projects as sewage planning and construction, comprehensive transformation of ditches, construction of express roads, and municipal roads construction will be integrated with the reconstruct planning of the "Villages-in-the-City". All the completed municipal facilities like roads will be brought into the urban infrastructure maintenance system.

Editor: Yan