The municipal government released Several Opinions on Transforming work of “Three Olds” (old towns, old plants and old villages) recently, putting forward 10 preferential policies to promote secondary development of inventory construction land, improve land-use efficiency, coordinate urban and rural development and establish a new city with harmonious economic and social development by taking transformation work of “three olds” as the carrier.

The 10 preferential policies include opening up green channels, properly increasing the plot ratio of land development, accelerating procedures and approvals of handling land, giving priority to grant adequate land, implementing the work of land acquisition and house dismantling or removing, strengthening financial support, regulating scale of development and construction land area, moderately increasing rate of business buildings, enlarging capital channels and carrying out public supporting construction.

In addition, the document defines the transformation range of “three olds” and several cases out of the range. Based on the principle of emancipating mind, respecting the history, planning first, adjusting structure, government guiding, market running, steadily promoting and overall upgrading, it proposes to reasonably define the intensity of overall development and preferentially reserve enough land for public uses.
In Zhongshan, the government plans to transform land area of 97,000 mu within 5 years and 10,000 mu in 2010.