At present, all parts of the country are promoting the construction of quarter-minute convenient living areas, targeting "small things, practical matters, and urgent matters" at residents' doorsteps. More than 70% of the residents of Hongyuan Community in Jingzhou, Hubei Province are elderly. The community closely follows the daily needs of the elderly and integrates medical care, meal assistance, and neighborhood mutual aid resources to provide heart-warming elderly care services for the elderly.
In the Hongyuan Community Convenience Service Hall, medical staff from Jingzhou Second People's Hospital are conducting free clinics for the elderly. This is a home medical and health service project signed between the community and the hospital. Every Tuesday and Friday, the hospital will arrange experts to go to the community to conduct regular consultations, health science popularization, chronic disease monitoring and home follow-up, delivering basic diagnosis and treatment and health care services to residents' doorsteps.
There are nearly a thousand elderly people over 60 years old in Hongyuan Community, and a high proportion of elderly people, living alone, and empty-nest elderly people. "Difficulty in cooking and eating" is a common life problem for many elderly people. To this end, the community secured special civil affairs funds, introduced professional operating entities, and adopted a three-level service model of "elderly canteen + elderly assistance table + door-to-door meal delivery" to build a community canteen for the elderly. The dishes are also adapted to the characteristics of the elderly, low in salt, soft and chewy, affordable and palatable, and door-to-door meal delivery services are provided.
Faced with the current situation of tight space and insufficient supporting facilities for the elderly in old communities, the community took the initiative to reduce 80% of the administrative office area and transform it into a venue for residents' activities. The 800-square-meter Party and Mass Service Center has a convenient repair shop for key distribution and watch repair, a public barber shop, and other convenient businesses. It also has a Peking Opera club, a Guqin club, and a handicraft activity room.
In addition, the community has also relied on the natural advantages of acquaintances and neighbors in the old community to build multiple mutual aid points for the younger generation to help the elderly, and established a senior volunteer service team of more than 80 people. It promotes a mutual aid model of "younger people help the elderly, healthy people help the frail, and neighbors help those living alone", building a nearby, convenient, long-term and sustainable mutual aid and elderly care system.
Micro update and smart transformation
"Minor repairs and repairs" benefit people's livelihood
Revitalize community space, start with "minor repairs and repairs", and make up for the shortcomings in people's livelihood. Chongqing's Jiulongpo District adopts a micro-renewal approach of "light intervention, clever quality improvement" to transform barren slopes into pocket green spaces, build convenient workshops in open spaces, and provide heart-warming community canteens.
Recently, a brand new pocket park in Jiulongpo Democratic Village was officially unveiled. The park is located at the intersection of North-South Avenue and Tuanjie Road, with a total area of about 3,500 square meters. It makes up for the shortcomings of leisure facilities in the area. Residents of surrounding communities can go downstairs and take a leisurely stroll.
Chen Rongqing, a community staff member of the Democratic Village of Xiejiawan Subdistrict: Public service facilities such as fitness equipment, leisure seats, and pocket parks will also be added to provide precise services to "the elderly and the young."
The Democratic Village community has also revitalized scattered vacant lots and created "artisan workshops that benefit the people." In the workshop of more than 20 square meters, there are five convenience stalls including key distribution, shoe repair, haircut, and home appliance repair. Residents can solve their daily "minor troubles" by going downstairs.
The craftsman's shop solves "minor troubles", and the community canteen provides residents with "three meals a day." As soon as the meal arrives, the community canteen of Minzhu Village is filled with aroma. Braised pork and steamed pork are all authentic Chongqing flavors. Seniors over 60 years old can enjoy a buffet meal with more than ten dishes for only 15 yuan.
Today, the convenient service network in Jiulongpo District is getting denser and denser. The community regularly collects and quickly responds to various demands of the masses, and the satisfaction of the masses has increased to 96.8%. Up to now, Jiulongpo District has built 20 quarter-hour convenient living circles, and the total number of planned and constructed areas has reached 47.
Bringing convenient businesses into the community
Mountain living is more comfortable
The Baiyun New Village area in Xigang District, Dalian, Liaoning Province is located on the slopes of Lianhua Mountain. The winding mountain roads are winding and undulating, making it inconvenient for residents to travel. Local streets accurately meet demand and build convenience businesses such as fresh food stores and supermarkets, and elderly care and medical care.
In recent years, local streets and communities have continued to enrich the commercial formats in the Baiyun New Village area and improve the supply of convenient services. On the one hand, it promotes the upgrading of basic supporting facilities such as fresh food supermarkets, community medical services, and fitness venues. On the other hand, it specially introduces small shops that are close to daily life, such as watch repair, lock replacement, and express delivery stations, bringing all the small things that residents used to have to go down the mountain and travel long distances to their doorsteps.
Headquarters reporter Tao Zewen: Next to me is the main road in the Baiyun New Village area, Baoshan Road, which connects various surrounding communities. You can see that on both sides of the road, restaurants, shopping, wet markets, coffee shops, and 24-hour convenience stores are located next to each other. There are also "minor repairs" such as sewer unblocking, leather goods care, and other convenience businesses.
Zhang Lu, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Baiyun Street, Xigang District: Relying on the construction of the area, we will provide good services to small, medium and micro enterprises and individual businesses, encourage them to take root in the area, and continue to make up for the shortcomings in convenient services, so that every resident in the area can feel the happiness at their doorstep.
“Convenience market” revitalizes resources
Merchants participate and residents benefit
In Dezhou, Shandong Province, the local area has explored an innovative model of "convenience market" to create a win-win convenience ecosystem with "community platform, merchant participation, and residents benefiting".
Every Friday, the Party and Mass Service Center in Chenghuangmiao Community, Xinhu Street, Decheng District, Dezhou City becomes extremely lively, and the weekly convenience service market opens on time. The market not only provides affordable and convenient items such as sewing clothes and sharpening kitchen knives, but also provides free health examinations, traditional Chinese medicine physiotherapy, policy propaganda, public welfare haircuts and other voluntary services. Residents do not need to go out of the community, and can solve all kinds of daily and trivial life needs in one stop.
According to reports, more than 240 volunteer fairs in the Chenghuang Temple community have been held. The community is also constantly innovating service models, accurately connecting merchant resources in the jurisdiction, and attracting more categories of merchants and service organizations to settle in the market.
Not only the Chenghuang Temple community, but also all the streets and communities in Dezhou are focusing on the "15-minute convenient living circle". Cuihu Community actively connects with high-quality resources such as state-owned enterprises and central enterprises, and explores an asset-light co-construction model of "enterprise investment and operation + community provision of venues". The community renovated and upgraded the previously idle public service buildings to create a 24-hour one-stop convenient service center. Residents can not only purchase affordable and high-quality daily necessities here, but also experience various public welfare and convenient services at any time.
Liu Ruwei, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of Dezhou Municipal Commerce Bureau: At present, Dezhou has built a total of 65 convenient living areas within 15 minutes. By the end of 2028, the city plans to expand the number of convenient living circles to more than 100, integrating them with elderly care and childcare circles, employment service circles, and health and leisure circles to make the "happiness circle" at people's doorsteps more and more round.
