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

by x2524183384 on 2011-08-12 21:34:58

No. 10 Xibianmen was originally built in the 1950s, and after 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 a pregnant woman. After that, the State Administration for Public Affairs proposed to renovate the dangerous building. During this period, there were two appraisals on dangerous houses, three public opinion polls, and each time more than 90% of the residents supported demolition and reconstruction. There were also four design scheme announcements. 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 both academies) to use his connections to list No. 10 Xibianmen as an excellent modern building in Beijing, the renovation of the dangerous building came to a sudden stop in 2009. To this day, more than a thousand residents still live on the brink of life and death. What is even more disheartening is that the State Administration for Public Affairs, seeing no hope for renovation, arbitrarily used the funds from the 2008 Olympic Games project to repair the doors and windows and roads of the dangerous buildings that had no value for repair, without considering the repair of the walls and structure. The 25 million yuan repair project was carried out without prior notice or bidding, and there was no audit or acceptance afterwards, just a hasty completion. For 12 years, the renovation has been ongoing without any results, only repairs instead of demolition and reconstruction, with no public opinion but only power! The lives and deaths of more than a thousand residents have been dragged on like this. The Chinese people took eight years to drive away the Japanese, and the Chinese took four years to defeat the Kuomintang, but we spent 12 years and couldn't fight for a place that originally belonged to us.