Background Overview
Shanghai, as an international city, is in the process of urban development, but with the acceleration of industrial transformation and upgrading and urbanization, traditional industries have begun to decline. The industrial factories have gradually lost their vitality, leaving abandoned industrial sites. The other functions including commercial or educationcal function are mixed, especially the surrounding residential areas will be
affected.
The current goal of the city is innovation, ecology and humanity and the focus on livable life in the city, in order to meet the needs of new urban development, the industrial heritage and historical areas are in urgent need of renewal, not only the transformation of gas stations and factories, but also the residential area.
Social Study
• Dense population
Hongkou District, due to its glorious history, large population base and small area, also includes more water area in the total area. The population density of Hongkou ranks second among cities in mainland China, with a total area of 23.45 square kilometers, a resident population of 757,498, and a density of 32,935 person square kilometer.
In 2020, the total GDP of Hongkou District is about 104.7 billion yuan. As a municipal district of Shanghai, Hongkou District's economic value ranks relatively low in Shanghai.
• Aging population
Shanghai is the first city that enter an aging society in China, and it is also a metropolis with the highest degree of aging. At the end of 2019, Hongkou District had a registered population of 292,400 elderly people aged 60 and above, accounting for about 41.13% of the total population in the district. The degree of aging ranks first in the city.
In Hongkou District, the River Bay Town also has a high degree of aging. Among the actual population, there are 41,600 people over 60 years old, accounting for about 30.2% of the total; there are 16,800 people over 70 years old, accounting for about 12.2% of the total;
The old residential buildings are concentrated. There are 2001 multi-storey residential buildings without elevators, and more than 80% of them were built more than 20 years ago. Therefore, these communities, including Xinyi Community, have a very large demand for elderly care and health services.
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• Shanghai People's Comments on Hongkou District
Keyword: fading
• Shanghai people's Comments on River Bay town
Keyword: tedious
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• Increasingly alienated neighborhood relations in Shanghai
In 2016, the Social Conditions and Public Opinion Survey Center of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Statistics launched the 2016 Citizen-Neighborhood Survey. The survey results show that citizens are generally satisfied with the current neighborhood relations. However, the data is intriguing: 43.6% of the respondents did not know much about the neighbors next door, and 28.9% of the respondents only had a partial understanding; for unfamiliar neighbors, only 27.5% took the initiative to say hello.
"I still want to say hello when I meet my neighbors in the corridor, but I can't get the words out of my mouth. I'm going to suffer from embarrassment." 28-year-old Miss Fan lives in an old community in Hongkou District. Greeting each other may seem simple, but it is actually quite difficult. "But this is not very frequent. After all, the commute time is different, and it will not always appear in the corridor on weekends."
In the above survey, there is a set of data that may explain this embarrassing scene: among the interviewed citizens who are not satisfied with the neighborhood relationship, the most dissatisfied factor is "not knowing each other and treating each other as strangers", accounting for 32.4% %.
This may indicate that neighborhood awareness is still valued, and there is a desire to communicate among neighbors, but there are few opportunities for communication.