Difficulties, Causes, and Countermeasures in the Implementation of Old Residential Area Renovation Policies

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10.2991/978-2-38476-609-3_52How to use a DOI?

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Old Residential Area Renovation; Policy Implementation; Responsibility Pressure; Participatory Governance; Urban Renewal

Abstract

As China’s cities enter the stage of stock renewal, the transformation of old residential areas has become a key policy to improve the level of urban governance and improve the well-being of the people’s livelihood. However, in policy practice, the implementation dilemma of “easy project construction, difficult consensus, and difficult effect” is more prominent. Based on the pressure-type system, fuzzy-conflict model, and participatory governance theory, this study constructs an analytical framework of responsibility pressure transmission, grassroots execution selection, multi-agent game-performance output, and conducts a systematic analysis with typical cases. The study found that policy implementation faces five core dilemmas: target layer coding, mismatch between grassroots pressure and ability, formalization of residents’ participation, single financial mechanism, and imbalance of performance evaluation. The underlying causes are the imbalance of the responsibility transmission mechanism, the lack of participation mechanism, the asymmetry of information between policy and residents’ needs, and the complexity of technology and governance. Accordingly, this paper proposes to optimize the allocation of responsibilities, strengthen the consultation mechanism, build a diversified financing system, and introduce multi-dimensional performance evaluation. This study provides an integrated framework for understanding the implementation mechanism of the old community renovation policy, and provides a theoretical and practical reference for promoting the transformation from “project-oriented” to “governance-oriented”.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaotong Liu
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/04
TI  - Difficulties, Causes, and Countermeasures in the Implementation of Old Residential Area Renovation Policies
BT  - Proceedings of the 2026 3rd International Conference on Public Relations and Media Communication (PRMC 2026)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 487
EP  - 496
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-609-3_52
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-609-3_52
ID  - Liu2026
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