Jilin Special: Warmer, lower-cost housing for poor people is the solution

Yet another focus of the Jilin government in its 12th Five-Year Plan is improved housing conditions for its lower-income citizens.

It intends to refurbish its 4,000 kilometers heating pipes during this period. And it will use newer technology in its piping network to preserve energy over a 60-million-square-meter area.

The province wants to inject 130 billion yuan ($19.7 billion) into the property business this year, a 16.8 percent increase from last year's spending.