Citylawmakersselect10keyprojectsforpeopleswellbeing

From: Shenzhen Daily

Updated: 2022-04-14 09:04

For the first time, Shenzhen lawmakers have selected by vote the top 10 projects related to people’s livelihood that the city government should pursue in 2022.

The 10 were chosen from a list of 12 candidate projects by lawmakers during the closing meeting of the annual session of the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress, the city’s legislature, yesterday.

The projects focus on improving medical services, increasing housing supply, strengthening food and drug supervision, increasing quality school admissions, facilitating public transportation, strengthening children’s physical and mental health, optimizing water, electricity and gas supply services, boosting employment, enhancing emergency response capability, and enriching cultural and sport activities.

Each project has outlined measures with the goal of improving people’s well-being and ensuring that people experience a stronger sense of fulfillment, happiness and security. The projects’ details have been made public.

Among the projects are four hospitals to be built or reconstructed, and 1,200 hospital beds to be added. The city will add more than 35 new community health centers and over 800 general practitioners, and 200 community health centers will open night clinics until 9 p.m.

Shenzhen will prepare and build 110,000 public housing units, reconstruct and build 178 kindergartens, primary and middle schools, and add 200,000 seats for basic education.

The city will comprehensively promote the natural gas pipeline project, remove 600,000 liquefied gas cylinders, and add 400,000 natural gas pipeline users.

The projects also include building and transforming 20 parks, 60 kilometers of greenways, 230 kilometers of countryside trails, and 270 kilometers of ecological corridors.

Shenzhen will make all sports facilities open to residents with easy reservations, and add more than 160 sports venues throughout the year.

The city government will receive the supervision of the legislature’s standing committee and is required to submit a written report on the projects’ completion to lawmakers during the next annual legislative session. It is also asked to supervise and promote the other two candidate projects that were not picked, according to the legislature’s standing committee.

The 12 candidate projects were formed based on hundreds of suggestions collected from the public.