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Chinese vice premier urges to cover more low-income urbanites under low-rent housing system |
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08:16, August 27, 2007 |
Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan has urged local governments to further improve the low-rent housing system to cover more low-income urban families.
Zeng made the call at a national conference on urban housing held in Beijing on Friday and Saturday.
Housing is directly related to people''s livelihood. In some low-income families in cities, however, family members have only less than 10 square meters per person to live in, Zeng said.
The average housing area for per urbanite stood at 27 square meters in 2006, according to statistics.
Zeng said local governments should strive to offer adequate housing to low-income families with multiple means such as building more affordable apartments and reconstruct shantytowns and old residential areas.
Local governments should earmark funds for low-rent housing in their budgets, and at least 10 percent of the proceeds of land transfer should be used for low-rent housing, Zeng said.
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