On october 25th, china news online news (jan jing peng-gi) residential building 1133, located on west road, beijing, was the home of zhong guo zhi's former military general. Today, 74-year-old chen chowxia is the leader of this ancient building. This year, journalists learned, on 25 january, that chen autumn xia has received good news — the day she has spent almost 20 years “manually” calculating water costs for the residents of the building, thanks to the efforts of various representatives at the municipal level, district governments, municipal lines of operation and the streets of nanjing west road。
Over the years, chen chiu-xia has regularly dragged his companions behind the door of the first floor, opened a small water table for 17 families, one with a flashlight, one with a man in front of the water table, looked at the pointer and the scale, accounted for each household's water bill, and then collected it from house to house
“when you're old enough to climb the building, you're afraid of misperception and miscalculation. In my heart, i can't really copy the water table." in 2021, during a community outreach campaign, chen chouxia exposed her anxiety and distress to the district delegates。
There are currently 17 families living at 1133 west road in beijing. “at the earliest, the entire building had only one total water meter bill, each cost being shared equally by the public, and, owing to the differences in the population and water usage of each household, neighbourhood disputes would inevitably arise from the sharing of water costs.” on the day of the presentation to the press, wang xiaogwang, general secretary of the north neighbourhood party, on the street of nanjing west road, until 2006, the district-led project-wide overhaul was carried out, with a small water table for each household。
As a result, the amount of water per household could be clearly calculated, but since the mini-water table was not installed by shanghai city waterworks ltd. And coded, it was not included in the direct billing of the water company, and there was only one general bill for the entire building. Thus, for 17 households, the amount of water needed to be measured by the residents themselves, the amount of water due was calculated and the amount of the total bill was verified, and the amount of the water bill was subsequently collected by one resident, and the contribution was made on a single basis。
Initially, the neighbours of the building took turns to count and pay, but, as some of the inhabitants rented their houses abroad over the years, most of the buildings left behind elderly people who were unable to afford them, paid for them, and came and often made temporary tenants. Chen zhouxia, as the head of the building, took the initiative to undertake this task: “the tenant is highly mobile, and the previous practice of rotating charges will certainly not work. I'm the head of the building. I'll do it! I'll do it。
Over time, however, it has become increasingly difficult for 74-year-old chen to not only climb the building logs and account for the household's share of the water, but also to collect and even to collect it from households. Each calculation of water charges and collection of water charges takes a considerable amount of time, while the fact that the water charges paid by households are not properly invoiced or supported by a proper invoice or certificate is entirely manual and raises objections from households, especially tenants。
“every time a new tenant moves in, i pull him together to record the scale and pointer of the water table, and i'm gonna have to take it again and clear the bill before it leaves.” chen chou-xia said that most of the tenants had been co-opted over the years, and had had to face the “silent” thing: “a tenant who had promised to meet me before leaving to settle the bills, was surprised to leave quietly the next day”. When the neighbours learned of the situation, they comforted chen zhouxia and the landlord took the initiative to settle the tenants ' water bills. The most responsible client, chen chiuxia, has become more anxious: since then, she has been keeping an eye on the new tenants, and has asked the old neighbors of the building to “watch and watch”, and has repeatedly looked at and counted each time, fearing miscalculated amounts and causing further trouble。
With regard to chen's condition, the old neighbours are also very concerned that auntie chen is up all day and that if no one is willing to collect the water in the future, how will the water bills of the residents of the building be paid
In other sub-districts, there is a check-in, even in more places, without manual copying, and water tables are automatically billed and paid directly on a monthly phone or bank card. Why can't we do it in the building, using the most primitive, labour-intensive calculations?"
In the past two years, residents of 1133 west road, beijing, have become increasingly willing to “separate their water meters”, which has attracted the attention of representatives of the local community。
In order to deal properly with this problem over the years, the representatives of the local assembly listened to the people, gathered their opinions, and, under the direction of the district council, together with the west street board of the people's democratic republic of the congo, brought the issue to the attention of the city's representatives who were in contact with each other and brought it directly to the municipal line of business
In the first half of 2021, the representatives of the municipal congress proposed to speed up the implementation of the independent installation of water meters in part of the residential buildings in the north, including 1133 west road, beijing, in the hope that the application of a “one household table” would result in the individual calculation of the cost of water for each household, which would not only save time but also relieve the tension between the neighbourhood. In this regard, the district government attaches great importance to including the installation of water meters in the above-mentioned residential buildings on its special follow-up agenda, with the nanjing west road street office taking the lead。
In the first half of 2021, representatives of the municipal assembly made proposals for accelerating the process of installing independent water meters in part of the residential buildings in the north (including 1133 west road, beijing) in the hope of achieving a single calculation of the cost of water for each household by applying for a “one household table”, which would not only save time but also reduce the incidence of neighbourhood conflicts. In this regard, the district government attaches great importance to including the installation of water meters in the above-mentioned residential buildings on its special follow-up agenda, with the nanjing west road street office taking the lead。
In the second half of the year, nanjing west street actively contacted water companies, construction groups, etc., and on several occasions made arrangements for on-site field visits to work together on the construction of water gauges, depending on the real needs of the population. In an effort to find an early solution to the problem of water bills for the population, the street and the shubei house council went door-to-door and asked for advice on installation。
We will explain to you that when the `one table' is installed, water pressure and volume will improve and there will be no further dispute over water costs.”
According to wang xiaogang, all residents of the same building are required to agree and, upon written confirmation, to submit information on their houses to the water company in order to apply for a single water table. To this end, for a small number of heads of household who do not actually live here, or who are less active in water tablening, the staff will try to reach out to them and try to explain the merits of the “one household, one table” project. At the end of 2021, as a result of the efforts of the various parties, a written opinion was issued on each of the inhabitants of 1133 (17 households) and 1177 (3 households) of beijing west road。
At the beginning of this year, information materials were collected on the population at 1133 west road in beijing and 1177 west road in beijing, applications were approved for the construction of water gauges, and by the end of january, the “one household, one table” project for a total of 20 households was completed, which completely resolved the long-standing “convenient” situation of the population. When i looked at the 17 new water tables, chen was so happy: “the government has really solved the long-suffering problems of many years for our inhabitants, and we don't have to argue about the water bills anymore, and it's easy for me as a whole.”
Journalists have learned from the zingan district government that they will continue to push ahead with the remaining unrealized “one house, one watch” building in the northern neighbourhood — the installation of water gauges in building no. 354 (22 households) on the north-west road will enable all inhabitants of the north neighbourhood to use water as soon as possible。
