The reporter learned from the press conference held by the Information Office of the Henan Provincial Government on the 21st that by 2035, the construction goal of beautiful Henan will be basically achieved, and the protection rate of historical and cultural blocks and historical buildings will reach 100% at the end of the “14th Five-Year Plan”, and the construction protection and repair rate of historical and cultural blocks will reach more than 60%.
On the same day, the Information Office of the Henan Provincial Government held the seventh press conference in the series of “Striving for a New Era of Contribution to the 14th Five-Year Plan – Interpretation of the Special Planning Policies of Henan Province’s 14th Five-Year Plan” to interpret the “14th Five-Year Plan for Urban Renewal and Urban and Rural Human Settlements Construction in Henan Province” (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”).
Li Xinhuai, deputy director of the Henan Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that according to the plan, by 2025, more than 80% of the townships and administrative villages will meet the standards of civilized villages and towns at or above the county level, more than 50% of the township government locations will meet the construction standards of “beautiful towns”, more than 30% of the administrative villages will meet the construction standards of “four beautiful villages”, and more than 50% of the courtyards will meet the construction standards of “five beautiful courtyards”. By 2035, the goal of building a beautiful Henan will be basically achieved. By the middle of this century, the construction of beautiful urban and rural areas will reach a higher level, the living environment and ecological civilization will reach a new height, the governance system and governance capacity will be modernized, carbon neutrality will make significant progress, and a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful modern socialist province will be built.
The construction of beautiful Henan is also inseparable from the protection of ancient beauty. Li Xinhuai introduced that in the future, in the implementation of urban renewal actions, strengthen the control of urban and architectural features, protect and utilize historical and cultural resources, and at the end of the “14th Five-Year Plan”, the protection rate of historical and cultural blocks and historical buildings will reach 100%, and the construction protection and repair rate of historical and cultural blocks will reach more than 60%.
The construction of beautiful Henan is also inseparable from the construction of beautiful countryside in the countryside. At present, Henan Province is carrying out in-depth centralized rectification of rural human settlements, how to accelerate the reversal of the situation of dirty and poor rural environment?
In this regard, Liu Weidong, deputy director of the Human Settlements Environment Division of the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that starting from this year, Henan will carry out the demonstration and creation of beautiful villages in ten counties, 100 towns and 1000 villages, and take the demonstration creation as the guide to drive the overall promotion and overall improvement of the construction of beautiful villages in the province.
Talking about the construction of resilient cities during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Li Qingshun, director of the Research Office of the Henan Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that Henan will strengthen the construction of resilient cities from three aspects: promoting disaster prevention and mitigation infrastructure, improving urban emergency response capabilities, and strengthening urban flood prevention and drainage. At the same time, in terms of promoting disaster prevention and mitigation infrastructure, the per capita evacuation area of cities at the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan period shall not be less than 1.5 square meters. In terms of strengthening urban flood prevention and drainage, focusing on post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, and vigorously promoting the construction and capacity improvement of urban drainage and flood prevention facilities, Henan Province has issued a specific implementation plan, and the key to the next step is to implement it in cities and counties. (ENDS)