Resilient City
This refers to a city with a strong capacity to withstand, absorb, and recover quickly from significant shocks and disasters. When severe incidents occur, such as serious safety accidents, extreme weather, earthquakes, floods, and major public health emergencies, a resilient city leverages its built-in buffers and self-healing mechanisms to absorb the pressure. By adapting to evolving situations, such a city is able to maintain functionality, recover, and achieve sustainable development.
Quality Home Initiative
This refers to a national initiative aimed at building homes with improved functionality and quality to meet people’s growing expectations for a better life in the new period of housing development. New homes will be built to higher standards with improved technology, while existing housing will be renovated with a view to improving quality and the residents’ sense of wellbeing.
Elevated Emergency Refuges
These are emergency flood-control and evacuation facilities built at safe, elevated locations in mountainous areas. In the event of flash floods, they provide temporary shelter for generally up to 24 hours. In normal times, they can serve as spaces for rural industrial development or for public use.
Double Reduction
This is a policy adopted to ease academic pressure on students. In July, 2021, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued a policy document, outlining measures to reduce excessive burdens on students from both homework and out-of-class tutoring during their compulsory schooling. The aim is to improve in-school education more effectively.
Double First-Class Initiative
This is an initiative to develop world-class universities and academic disciplines. In September 2017, the Ministry of Education and other relevant central departments jointly released the list of institutions and disciplines selected for this initiative. Among them, 34 universities and 162 disciplines were from Beijing.
“One Step Forward” TV Program
This is China’s first TV program aimed at facilitating dialogue between citizens and policymakers on public issues. It was launched on June 29, 2018 on BRTV, and first aired in a prime-time weekend slot. The program focuses on hot topics closely related to people’s immediate interests, such as relocation of residents in cultural heritage sites, improving backstreets and alleys, and renovating rundown urban areas. It invites participation from various stakeholders, such as city administrators, residents who are directly affected, mediators, journalists, psychological counselors, lawyers, as well as people from nearby neighborhoods. The program provides a forum for effectively channeling peoples’ emotions, resolving problems, and addressing popular concerns.
