The Confusion of the Reconstruction of No. 10 Courtyard, Xibianmen, Xicheng District, Beijing

by x2524183384 on 2011-08-12 21:14:32

No. 10 Xibianmen was built in the 1950s. After 60 years of weathering, it has long become a dangerous building. In 1999, a big fire killed four people, one of whom was a pregnant woman. Thereafter, the State Administration proposed to renovate the dangerous building. During this period, there were two appraisals for dangerous buildings, three public opinion polls, and 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) to use his relationship to establish No. 10 Xibianmen as an excellent modern building in Beijing, the renovation of dangerous buildings came to an abrupt end in 2009. To date, more than a thousand residents are still living on the brink of life and death. What is even more heart-wrenching is that the State Administration, seeing no hope for renovation, arbitrarily used the funds for the 2008 Olympic Games project to repair the doors and windows and roads of the dangerous buildings without any value for repairs. There was no consideration for repairing the walls and structures. The 25 million yuan renovation project was not notified beforehand, nor was it tendered, and there was no audit or acceptance afterwards. It was hastily completed. For 12 years, the renovation has been ongoing without any results. Demolition and reconstruction have only resulted in repair projects, without any public opinion, only authoritarianism! The lives and deaths of more than a thousand residents have been dragged on like this. The Chinese people drove away the Japanese in eight years and defeated the Kuomintang in four years, but we spent 12 years and still could not obtain a house that belongs to us.