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In the 1950s, in order to improve the living conditions in industrial cities, the country started to build practical and economic residences—new villages for workers. From 1953 to 1957, about 8,000,000 square meters of new residences were built in cities throughout the country, forming many relatively well-equipped new workers’ villages, such as Caoyang New Village in Shanghai; Baiwanzhuang and Sanlihe in Beijing; Wangchuanchang, Dingzigu New Village and Jianshan Residential Area in Tianjin as well as Tiexi New Workers’ Village, Liming New Workers’ Village and Songling New Workers’ Village in Shenyang.
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Fu, C., Cao, W. (2019). The New Workers’ Villages and Residential Environment of Industrial Cities in the 1950s. In: An Urban History of China. China Connections. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8211-6_8
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