Fifteen hundred lives are in danger.

by x2524183384 on 2011-08-09 15:31:41

No. 10 Xibianmen was originally built in the 1950s. After 60 years of weathering, it has become a dangerous building. In 1999, a big fire killed four people, one of whom was pregnant. Afterwards, the State Administration proposed to renovate the dangerous building. During this period, two dangerous house appraisals and three public opinion surveys were conducted. Each time more than 90% of the residents supported demolition and reconstruction. The design plan was made public four times. However, due to the strong opposition of Mrs. Wang Kewen in the courtyard and her instigation of her husband's student Zhou Ganzhi (academician of the two academies) who used his relationship to list No. 10 Xibianmen as an excellent modern building in Beijing, the dangerous renovation was abruptly stopped in 2009. To date, more than a thousand residents are still living on the brink of life and death. What makes us feel even colder is that, seeing no hope for renovation, the State Administration arbitrarily used the funds for the 2008 Olympic Games project to repair the doors, windows and roads of the dangerous buildings which had no value for repair, but did not consider repairing the walls and structures. The repair project cost 25 million yuan, without prior notice or bidding, and without audit or acceptance afterwards. It was hastily completed. For 12 years, the dangerous renovation has been proceeding without any result. Demolition and reconstruction have only resulted in repair projects, with no public opinion but only power! The lives of more than a thousand residents have been dragged on like this. The Chinese people spent eight years driving away the Japanese, and the Chinese spent four years defeating the Kuomintang, but we spent 12 years and still failed to fight for a place that belonged to us.