China to Build Residential Circles of Convenience Nationwide

The Ministry of Commerce and 11 other departments recently jointly issued guidelines for the construction of residential circles of convenience in urban areas across the country.

The aim of the initiative is to enable residents to have access to various products and services for daily lives within a 15minute walking radius.

In recent years, businesses targeting people’s needs and demand in their daily lives have developed rapidly in various residential areas, while problems, such as uneven distribution of commercial outlets, outdated facilities, unbalanced and inadequate development of new forms of business and new technologies, still need to be addressed.

The push for the building of such service circles across the country will be first tested in some areas and then promoted in a wider range of areas. Communities will be fully mobilized to make services for people’s daily lives more accessible, standardized, intelligent, and of higher quality. China aims to build these convenient residential spaces into an important platform to promote the formation of a strong domestic market, and create more job opportunities.