Shanghai municipal government office issued the city’s '15th Five-Year Plan' for
urban renewal and housing development, directing accelerated lifeline
infrastructure safety projects. The plan calls for distributed siting of key
facilities, energy and water sources, tighter disaster-resilience standards and
comprehensive infrastructure risk inspections. It mandates retrofits of aging
gas, water-supply/drainage and power distribution networks, continued
remediation of stormwater-sewage cross-connections and establishment of
long-term management mechanisms. The plan also accelerates upgrades to urban
sewage collection, treatment, reuse and sludge-processing facilities and the
establishment of integrated build-and-operate mechanisms for treatment plants
and stations. Target: 300 km of overhead-line burial and pole-box remediation to
be completed by end-2028.
