Beijing has surpassed the annual target in its renovation and relocation tasks in 11 projects. In addition, five projects in reclaiming the rural-urban fringe are drawing to a close, according to the Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform.
From January to September this year, the city has completed 258 percent of the annual task in shutting down unlicensed businesses. Beijing has also surpassed the annual target on tasks including the clean-up of illegal buildings, street vendors, unlicensed businesses, and hole-in-the-wall stores, as well as the relocation of general manufacturing companies and shantytown renovation. In addition, the annual target of relocating logistic centers and reducing training schools only took nine months to achieve.
During that time, Beijing has torn down illegal buildings in a combined area of 46.73 million square meters. The largest part of this undertaking covered 9.81 million square meters in Daxing District, equal to last year's annual target for the whole city. A total of 11,289 households who live in the illegal shared houses have been moved out, and 1,277 basements have been vacated.
In order to better serve the public, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform has set a budget for fixed asset investment in 52 commercial facilities. As of now, a total of 1,113 convenience stores were set up around the city, and 384 of them are vegetable vendors to meet residents' demand for daily grocery shopping.
During the past 273 days, the city has on average torn down illegal buildings in a 171,200-square-kilometer area and shut down 674 street vendors, 158 unlicensed business, and 21 polluting companies per day. It also built and renovated four convenience stores per day.