Phased Achievements of National Social Science Fund: the Experience of Shantytowns Reconstruction in Liaoning and Annual Report on Development of Housing Market in China to Release
Guangming Daily (Issue No. 10, December 22, 2012)
Probe into the Development Mode of Low-income Settlements in the Urbanization Process ---- the Experience of Shantytowns Reconstruction in Liaoning and Annual Report on Development of Housing Market in China (2012-2013), two phased achievements of National Social Science Fund, were released on the economist forum with a theme of “constructing well-off China with goals of ‘home to live in’”, co-organized by the National Academy of Economic Strategy and Social Sciences Academic Press of CASS.
Probe into the Development Mode of Low-income Settlements in the Urbanization Process ---- the Experience of Shantytowns Reconstruction in Liaoning, collaboratively written by the National Academy of Economic Strategy of CASS and UN-HABITAT, is the first academic monograph in the world to summarize experiences of Chinese shantytowns reconstruction. This book says that: 1) urbanization is the most promising bonus for China’s development in future but urban disease is the largest challenge for urbanization; 2) the housing disease is the first one among urban diseases; 3) the Liaoning Shantytowns Reconstruction is a comprehensive experiment on urban disease prevention. The most policy values of the Liaoning Shantytowns Reconstruction are to overcome urban diseases, develop low-income settlements, adhere to comprehensive, systematic and sustainable philosophy and methods, “government-dominating and market-operating” system and mode, and top-level design, make strategies and plans that “all factors are considered”, and systems and policies of “constructing ancillary facilities to benefit people for long”, and carry out management and services of “normalization, order, human-oriented and self-governance”. Ten economists present on the conference had a profound discussion on practical exploration of Liaoning Shantytowns Reconstruction, and experience references of overcoming and treating urban diseases, establishing China’s housing insurance system and constructing well-off China with goals of “home to live in”. The experts said on that conference that “this is the wold’s first academic monograph summarizing experiences on China shantytown reconstruction; Liaoning shantytown reconstruction explores complete solutions to solve urban diseases and low-income residents’ housing issues; it has important theoretical and practical significance in preventing urban diseases, establishing China’s housing insurance system, and constructing well-off China with goals of “home to live in”.”
In Annual Report on Development of Housing Market in China (2012-2013), the research group says that 1) the macro economy growth in 2012 was dragged down by the real estate industry, but got rid of over-dependence on it; 2) the housing market regulation in 2012 reached its next-best target that housing prices were comparatively decreased; 3) the development trend of 2013 China housing market is stable and growing but still has small fluctuations; 4) 2013 China housing market is vulnerable to both “overall rebound” and “partial collapse” risks at the same time; 5) the target task and strategy of China housingmarket regulation in 2013 is to expect rational return of real estate market, and keep real estate market stable and a little growing.
At last, the forum made an academic symposium on real estate development participated by ten economists. The symposium talked about China economy trend and prospect after “18th CPC National Congress”, useful and practical experiences learnt from Liaoning shantytowns reconstruction to establish China’s housing insurance system, urban diseases and other challenges occurred in urbanization process, how to balance “stable growth” and “housing price control”, how to defoam the real estate industry, how to make nationwide reforms on taxation system of the real estate industry, and some other topics. (Yanzi)