After four decades of rapid urbanization, China's development has gradually slowed. Urban construction has shifted from expansion to renewal. The six- and seven-story apartment blocks widely built in the 1980s and 1990s can no longer meet modern standards for comfortable living. The most pressing problem is the lack of elevators: the people living in these buildings have grown old, and declining physical strength has made everyday travel extremely difficult.
Yet progress has not forgotten them. Since 2011, the municipal government has made installing elevators in existing multistory residential buildings a major public initiative to improve people's lives. Its aim is to bring elevators to older, smaller, outdated, and remote housing, making it easier for residents to get around and opening a new chapter in housing reform and development for a new era.
The story begins with those who experienced elevator installation projects firsthand...
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