Chongqing Implements Comprehensive Elderly Care Service Facility Construction Regulations

The Chongqing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, along with other relevant government agencies, has issued the "Implementation Rules for the Construction of Supporting Elderly Care Service Facilities in Urban Residential Areas in Chongqing," aimed at ensuring elderly care facilities are built and handed over to the community within a strict, synchronous planning, construction, acceptance, and delivery mechanism. This move is part of the national strategy to address population aging, where the State Council has included the compliance rate of newly built residential elderly care facilities as a binding assessment indicator for provincial governments. The regulations specifically target issues with inadequate planning, construction, and irregularities in the transfer and use of elderly care facilities in urban residential areas.

Key Takeaways:

• The "Implementation Rules for the Construction of Supporting Elderly Care Service Facilities in Urban Residential Areas in Chongqing" outlines a comprehensive mechanism for building elderly care facilities, ensuring that they are built to standard and handed over to the community within a set timeframe.
• The rules clearly define the full-process management of elderly care service facilities, including planning, construction, acceptance, and delivery, to address issues with inadequate planning and construction.
• The core of the rules is to establish a "four synchronization" rigid mechanism: synchronous planning, synchronous construction, synchronous acceptance, and synchronous handover.
• The rules require the acceptance and handover stages to strengthen rigid constraints, ensuring that elderly care facilities are accepted simultaneously with the residential buildings.
• Within 6 months after acceptance, the developer must transfer the facilities and materials to the district or county civil affairs department or township (street) free of charge.
• The rules propose to combine the renovation of old communities and fill the gaps through reconstruction, purchase, replacement, etc.
• Elderly care service facilities must be operational within one year of delivery, supporting the "public-built, privately-operated" model to provide inclusive services.
• Developers are prohibited from transferring, mortgaging, or repurposing elderly care facilities, and must implement tax and fee concessions.
• Luo Wei, deputy director of the Institute of Law and Sociology of the Chongqing Academy of Social Sciences, states that the "Detailed Rules" will effectively solve the problem of "built but not handed over, handed over but not used" of elderly care facilities through full-process standardization.

Statistics:

• By 2025, the State Council aims for a 100% compliance rate of supporting elderly care service facilities in newly built residential areas.
• The binding assessment indicator for provincial governments includes the compliance rate of newly built residential elderly care facilities.
• The "Detailed Rules" are specifically designed to address pain points in the transfer and use of elderly care facilities in urban residential areas.

Sources:

• https://www.cq.gov.cn/ywdt/zwhd/bmdt/202508/t20250813_14897727.html