Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news 

Residents in Shanghai's old residential quarters applaud the city government's three-year renovation project for their dilapidated homes.
By the end of July, 21.86 million square meters of such housing had been renovated, ahead of the three-year target of 20 million square meters, according to the Shanghai Housing, Land and Resources Administration.
Housing conditions have been improved to the extent that home repair requests dropped sharply during Matsa, the typhoon which hit in early August and which was the strongest in eight years.
Property management has been introduced or regulated, with management bodies set up to cover 2.79 million square meters of accomodation.
The renovation projects, expected to benefit 1 million local families, are targeted at housing projects built more than 50 years ago, which, after long usage see complaints of leaking walls, clogged water pipes, poor greenery, uneven roads and of limited public space.
In the following six months, another 10.21 million square meters will undergo repair and facelift in such residential quarters as Liangcheng, Kongjiang, Anshan and Ganquan.
Administration data indicates that there are over 300 million square meters of residential housing projects in Shanghai.