Renovations to displace tenants

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Renovations to displace tenants
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Kasım 21, 2008 00:00

BEIJING - The Chinese capital will double its investment in protecting the city's imperial-era neighbourhoods next year but thousands of families will be moved in the process, state media said on Thursday.

Beijing will spend up to 2 billion yuan ($292.7 million) upgrading aging homes, the official Xinhua news agency cited vice mayor Chen Gang as saying.

"Issues concerning people's living standards should be resolved quickly. We should begin renovations in the early spring," Chen was quoted as saying. "The goal is that no more shabby and dangerous homes should be found in downtown Beijing within two or three years."

More than 20,000 families would be affected and one-third of them would be moved out of the downtown area "to ease the population pressure in the heart of the city", the report said.

"The government will not force residents to move out. The evacuation is completely based on the residents' own wishes and they need to submit applications themselves," it quoted Sui Zhenjiang, head of the Municipal Committee of Construction, as saying.

"The government had prepared favourable locations in four outer districts for residents who were willing to move," it also paraphrased him as saying.
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