From 2019 to 2024, China launched renovation projects at approximately 280,000 old urban residential communities, benefiting more than 120 million people, per the data.

Fuxi Street in Wangmushan Village, Deqing County, presents a picturesque rural summer landscape, with its village, waterways, and lotus ponds, in Huzhou, China./CFP Editor’s note: Li Chunding is the ...