Thoughts On The Comfortable Housing Project Of Liminating Thatched Clay Houses In The Rural Area In Jilin City

Since the reform and opening up of our country, under various policies to benefitpeasants and support peasants, the economy in rural areas have developed rapidly, theliving standards of peasants have improved continuously; the rural areas haveundergone profound and dramatic changes. As the income and living standards ofpeasants improved continuously, people who live in thatched clay houses have desire toimprove their own living conditions and the desire has become stronger and stronger.The implementation of comfortable housing projects is an import initiative to fulfill thescientific development concept, to build a harmonious society, to make overall planning,to improve the people’s livelihood. In the9thparty congress, an important decision hasbeen made to strive to eliminate thatched clay houses in the whole province in fiveyears.This is a vital decision to implement scientific development concept, push forwardthe construction of a new countryside, make overall planning of the urban and ruralareas; it is also a vital project to benefit people. The comfortable housing project ofeliminating thatched clay houses in the rural area in Jilin City is not only an importantissue of paying attention to people’s livelihood, but also a project to stimulate domesticdemand, expand employment and improve the economy. Implementing the comfortablehousing project of eliminating thatched clay houses in rural area is of great significanceto build a harmonious society, to fulfill the scientific development concept.From2007, Jilin province has take the lead to implement the comfortable housingproject of eliminating thatched clay houses in the rural area and choose several cities asexperiment. During the implementation of the comfortable housing project ofeliminating thatched clay houses, the government departments at every level haveaccumulated their own experiences. The government of Jilin Province has changedseveral policies after the experiments. Since2008, Jilin province started to push forwardthe project in full scale. The government of Jilin City spares no effort to strive tocomplete this project in a whole. In order to carry out this project wholly and carefully, the government of Jilin set up a special leading group, the leaders are governmentofficials themselves. In order to better implement this comfortable housing project ofeliminating thatched clay houses, Jilin city has published <<the overall plan for thecomfortable housing project of eliminating thatched clay houses>> as the main basis forthe implementation of the project in Jilin City.This paper describes the policy of the comfortable housing project of eliminatingthatched clay houses in Jilin City, analyze the measures which have been used duringthe implementation, try to understand the progress from2007to2010when the projectwas implemented in a full scale, identify several problems during the renovation. Theauthor also draws on the experiences of various housing benefits abroad. Finally, basedon the author’s day to day work experience, countermeasures and suggestions arepointed out to improve the implementation of eliminating thatched clay houses in ruralarea.