Minister of housing and urban rural development Wang Menghui: Housing contradiction has changed from total shortage to structural shortage

Financial Associated Press, August 31 (Xinhua) Wang Menghui, Minister of housing and urban rural development, pointed out at the press conference of the state information office that the new era and new stage put forward new requirements for housing and Urban-Rural Construction and development, and housing and urban-rural construction are facing new problems and challenges. For example, the housing contradiction has changed from total shortage to structural shortage, and the people have put forward higher requirements for housing quality and environment; Urban development has changed from large-scale incremental construction to paying equal attention to stock upgrading and transformation and incremental structural adjustment. The quality and safety of urban construction do not meet the people's yearning for a better life and the requirements of the new era and new stage. Urban and rural development is unbalanced, rural development is not sufficient, and the construction of rural houses and villages and towns can not well meet the needs of farmers' modern life, and so on.