In pursuit of novelty, expansion, and foreignness, people's lives are not easy; urbanization cannot be "aristocratic." A city is a city for everyone.

The essence of urbanization is exactly the theme of the Shanghai World Expo - making life better.

Urban construction and management should be people-oriented, and public services should be provided to different classes, so that the general public, not just a few high-end people, can enjoy the good life brought by urbanization. In the process of urbanization, people see that the face of the city is changing with each passing day.

changes, but at the same time, there is also a trend of "gentrification" in some places.

Some cities are keen on superficial prosperity and luxury development models and ignore the service functions for the people. The buildings are getting taller and the facilities are becoming more and more foreign. However, ordinary people feel that their lives are inconvenient and their living space is small.

This tendency of “aristocracy” must arouse high vigilance.

The architecture is foreign and the characteristics are gone. Nowadays, every city is creating its own "city business card", and every "business card" seems familiar.

When reporters interviewed in some places, the local methods of displaying "city business cards" were almost the same - a car took visitors to a newly developed suburban new city. The new city was often neat and beautiful, with luxurious office buildings, convention and exhibition centers, theme squares, and stadiums.

, libraries, planning libraries, lighting and beautification projects, even golf courses, resorts, etc., there are many of them.

"In the process of urbanization, there is nothing wrong with building new cities and improving the appearance of the city. However, if urbanization is simply understood as building houses and squares and one-sided pursuit of gorgeous appearance, it will bring many disadvantages." Policy of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development

Xu Zongwei, deputy director of the Department of Regulations, said.

The image of the city is excessively seeking novelty, grandeur, and foreignness, and in some places large-scale demolition and construction are carried out.

Amidst the roar of bulldozers, many buildings that had not reached the end of their service life fell to the ground and were replaced by more spectacular skyscrapers and squares.

Such large-scale demolition and construction not only causes huge waste, but also often causes brutal demolition and infringes on the interests of the masses.

Large public buildings often require large investments, low land resource utilization, and high building energy consumption, becoming a black hole for capital, land, and energy consumption.

Some cities are eager to build flashy new cities regardless of their own economic capacity, exacerbating the high debt situation of local governments and intensifying their dependence on land finance, forming a vicious cycle.

The one-sided pursuit of a bright city image will also lead to a simplification of the city's appearance.

"Look down to see the pavement, look straight up to see the fountain, look up to see the sculptures, steps and flagpoles, symmetrical about the central axis, and the end point is the government."

This jingle is a common people's humorous description of the uniform style of city squares.

In many cities, there is usually a large square opposite the offices of government agencies. The square is surrounded by buildings such as museums, exhibition centers, and libraries.

Behind the rise of these homogeneous buildings, a large number of old buildings with Chinese style have been demolished, destroying the original historical features of the city.

The higher the class, the harder it is to live. Cities make life better.

Nowadays, cities have become more beautiful, but in some places, many ordinary people feel that life is not as beautiful as they imagined.

Elder Xue Songlin takes his 6-year-old grandson to kindergarten every day.

Along the way, many places that were once used for walking and cycling are now filled with cars, forcing pedestrians onto the road.

During the 20-minute journey, the old man held his grandson's hand almost all the time. Once there was the sound of a car behind them, they hid on the side of the road and waited for the car to pass by before leaving.

"The roads are becoming wider and wider, but they are all for cars. It takes a long way to cross the road, and it is not as convenient for pedestrians to walk as before." said Xue Songlin, an old man.

The old man felt that over the years, the city where he lived had seen more and more luxurious places for wealthy people to spend money. A haircut cost fifty or sixty yuan, and a bath cost more than one hundred yuan. In the past, there were barber shops and bathhouses right outside his doorstep.

There are fewer and fewer children.

My grandson goes to a "bilingual education kindergarten", and the monthly tuition is four to five thousand yuan.

"It's too difficult to get into better ordinary kindergartens. I have no choice but to spend money to go to such aristocratic kindergartens." The old man told reporters that the family has begun to worry about sending their children to elementary school. If they want to go to a better school, it will cost a lot.

Quite a few.

In many cities, public service industries such as education, medical care, culture and sports have become high-end and aristocratic. On the one hand, many people's basic public service needs have not been reasonably met for a long time.

, for example, ordinary patients need to wait in line for a long time to see a doctor; after the development of new areas in some cities, supporting primary and secondary schools and hospitals have not been built for a long time, resulting in "difficulty in going to school" and "difficulty in seeing a doctor"; ordinary residents lack sufficient

Sports activity facilities, etc.

On the other hand, there are many high-end wards in public hospitals, high-end classes with high fees in schools, and even playing badminton in public gymnasiums has become a high-consumption behavior.

Xu Guangjian, deputy dean of the School of Public Service Management at Renmin University of China, believes that in some public service industries, there are two different "aristocratic" tendencies.

One type is a basically reasonable "gentrification" tendency, which is the provision of higher-grade services by educational or private medical units established by social forces.

This type of service mainly targets high-income families or groups and is largely of a personal nature.

Another type is the unreasonable "gentrification" tendency, which is the high-end services provided by government-organized education or hospitals.

This kind of "aristocracy" uses public financial funds, public land resources and public human resources, which is discriminatory and should be restricted.