Shanghai municipal government office issued the city’s Urban Renewal and Housing
Development “15th Five-Year Plan”, directing a stepped-up renovation drive for
aging residential communities to address safety risks. The plan mandates full
repairs for public housing and sold-off public housing communities, then gradually
expansion to mixed-tenure and early commercial housing, using an
inspection-first, phased inclusion approach. It calls for higher renovation
standards, broader renovation scope, resident participation and support for
homeowner-led renewal. The plan specifically tasks authorities to orderly
replace aging elevators and to add elevators to existing multi-storey
residential buildings, and to continue energy-efficiency retrofits of the
existing housing stock.
