China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said 16,000 urban aging
residential communities were fully renovated and 13,000 are under renovation in
the first nine months of the year, covering 5.02 mln households. Upgrades
included over 7,200 km of aging utility pipelines (water, power, gas, heating),
accessibility and elder-friendly works in more than 2,800 communities, 86,000
added parking spaces, 9.54 mln sqm of building energy-efficiency retrofits and
over 10,000 EV/e-bike charging points.
