Since the installation of the first elevator four years ago, all 19 multi-story residential buildings in Liangdong Residential Quarter, Liangcheng Xincun Sub-district have completed elevator installation.
Recently, the completion ceremony was held in the community, and residents embraced a convenient lifestyle.
The proportion of elderly people in the Liangdong Community reaches 60%, including many elderly people. Due to limited mobility, the elderly can only rely on their children or long-term care insurance staff to deliver food every day. Nowadays, with all buildings installed with elevators in the community, this concern of the elderly has also been resolved.
90-year-old Wang Runyuan says: "The elevators have been installed, and my dream for many years has finally come true! Now it's much more convenient to go upstairs and downstairs. My son and I discuss that we plan to buy an electric wheelchair. I can operate the wheelchair myself and go for a ride”.
88-year-old Gan Meiqin says: "When there was no elevator, my daughter brought me groceries. My daughter had poor leg joints. Finally, the elevators come. Now I can buy groceries myself, take a walk in the community, and chat with old neighbors”.
The elevator in Building 4, installed in 2019, is not only the first elevator installed in the residential quarter but also the first elevator installed in the entire sub-district. Since then, the residents had a strong willingness to install elevators. Finally, at the beginning of this year, the community experienced a peak of adding elevators, with 13 elevators installed simultaneously. With the addition of elevators that have been completed and put into use before, the whole-community elevator installation has successfully been achieved.
An official of the Liangcheng Xincun Sub-district Autonomous Office tells that Liangdong Community is the first community in the sub-district to install elevators throughout the entire community. With the strong support of the district housing management bureau, the "Beautiful Home" project in Liangdong Community was also constructed simultaneously during this period, integrating with the installation of elevators. “The two projects are being carried out simultaneously, which makes us feel smoother and more reasonable when designing the layout of the community. There are now many more parking lots in the residential quarter, and the overall community environment has significantly improved", says the official.
The above approach will be promoted in more sub-districts this year. An official of the Housing Security Department of the District Housing Management Bureau says: “Promoting the installation of elevators in the whole community has always been our focus of work. The first whole-community elevator installation in Shanghai is in Hongkou District. At present, we have successful examples in Jiangwan Town Sub-district, Liangcheng Xincun Sub-district, and Ouyang Road Sub-district. This year, we will also promote the "beautiful home + elevator installation" model in Quyang Road Sub-district and Guangzhong Road Sub-district to make more communities install elevators in the whole communities".
More than 400 elevators have been installed in Hongkou, and the project of more than 700 elevators has been approved. Next, the district housing management bureau will coordinate with relevant sub-district departments to enhance daily maintenance of elevators that have already been put into use, so that residents have no worries when using them in the future.