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

by x2524183384 on 2011-08-12 21:40:31

No. 10 Xibianmen was originally built in the 1950s. After enduring 60 years of wind and frost, it had long become a dangerous building. In 1999, a big fire killed four people, one of whom was pregnant. After that, the State Administration for Public Affairs proposed to renovate the dangerous building. During this period, there were two dangerous house appraisals and three public opinion polls. Each time, more than 90% of the residents supported the demolition and reconstruction. There were four design plan announcements. However, due to the strong opposition of Mrs. Wang Kewen in the courtyard and her instigation of her husband's student Zhou Ganzhi (a double academician) to use his connections 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 this day, more than a thousand residents still live on the brink of life and death. What makes us feel even colder is that, seeing no hope for renovation, the State Administration for Public Affairs arbitrarily used the funds from the 2008 Olympic engineering project to repair the doors, windows, and roads of the dangerous houses that had no value for repair, without considering repairing the walls and structures. The 25 million yuan repair project was rushed to completion without prior notification or bidding, and without post-project audit or acceptance. For 12 years, the renovation has been ongoing without any results, only advancing. Demolition and reconstruction have been replaced by repair projects, with no public opinion but only power! The lives of more than a thousand residents have been dragged out like this. The Chinese people spent eight years driving away the Japanese, and four years defeating the Kuomintang, but we spent 12 years and still couldn't fight for a place that originally belonged to us.