'The planning process includes nine stages: policy publicity, information collection, willingness survey, site survey, scheme preparation, joint review, scheme publicity, parallel approval, and design.'

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Policy publicity: The streets and communities shall carry out policy publicity on the reconstruction of old residential areas that have been included in the reconstruction plan.  Mainly through the media, community owners, micro channel small programs, on-site propaganda points, community propaganda column, distribution of brochures, hanging banners and other forms, publicity of the national, provincial, and municipal old community reconstruction policies and related knowledge.
 

Information Collection: The street and community organizations shall collect the basic information about the community, including the number of households, building area, property right nature, and completion time, and fill in the "Basic Information Form of the Old Community" (see Appendix B).  Present situation photos, relevant planning information, and a long-term management plan can be attached.
 

Residents' will: Streets and communities shall carry out surveys of residents' will, mainly by filling in the "Survey Form of Residents' Will for Renovation of Old Residential areas" (see Appendix C) and holding symposiums to understand residents' needs for renovation and property management ideas, etc., and form a "Survey Report of residents' Will for Renovation".
 

Site Survey: community planners or professional units shall be organized by the street to conduct an on-site survey of the community to be renovated, and a preliminary list of renovation projects shall be put forward according to the original as-built drawings, the status quo of the community, residents' renovation intentions, and cultural data of the community.
 

Scheme Preparation: The street or the implementing unit shall employ a design unit with corresponding qualifications to prepare the plan and fund calculation of the community renovation according to the list of preliminary renovation projects and the requirements of "One community, one scheme".
 

Joint Review (pre-reform assessment):  Street submitted to the district people's government, district hair change, finance, natural resources planning, urban and rural construction, housing, urban management enforcement, garden forestry, public security, fire brigade, rescue, communication, and other related functional departments and units exclusively, according to the measurement and the actual situation to plan a joint review, determine the retrofit scheme, clear content.
 

Scheme Publicity: After joint review, the improved reconstruction scheme of the residential area shall be publicized in a prominent position of the residential area, and the publicity period shall be no less than 7 days.  The program is confirmed by streets and communities after publicity.  The neighborhood, the implementing unit, and the designing unit shall study the renovation contents that residents object to in the publicity, and the reasonable opinions shall be adopted and adjusted.  The circumstances and reasons for the acceptance and rejection of all objections shall be publicly explained.
 

Parallel connection approval: After the plan is publicized without objection or the modification content with the objection is adjusted, the unit with relevant qualifications shall prepare a feasibility study report, and the sub-district or implementing unit shall submit it to the relevant competent department for approval of project approval, land use and planning.
 

Design: The street or the implementing unit entrusts the design unit to enter the compilation stage of construction drawing design documents according to the scheme approved by parallel connection.