An Open Letter to the Party Leadership of the State Administration Bureau

by x2524183384 on 2011-08-09 15:34:16

No. 10 Xibianmen was originally built in the 1950s. After experiencing 60 years of wind and frost, it has long 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 polls were conducted. Each time, more than 90% of the residents supported demolition and reconstruction. The design plan was announced four times. Due to the strong opposition of Mrs. Wang Kewen in the courtyard and inciting her husband's student Zhou Ganzhi (academician of both academies) to use his relationship to establish No. 10 Xibianmen as an excellent modern building in Beijing, the renovation of the dangerous building came to a sudden stop 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 the State Administration saw no hope for transformation, and arbitrarily used the funds of the 2008 Olympic engineering project to repair the doors and windows and roads of the dangerous buildings without maintenance value. There was no consideration for repairing the walls and structures. The RMB 25 million repair project was completed hastily without prior notice or bidding, and without audit and acceptance afterwards. For 12 years, the renovation of the dangerous building has been moving forward but without any results. Demolition and reconstruction have only led to repair projects, without any public opinion but only power! The lives of more than a thousand residents have been delayed like this. The Chinese people drove away the Japanese in eight years and defeated the Kuomintang in four years, yet we failed to strive for a place that originally belonged to us in 12 years.