In 2024, Huai'an launched initiatives to promote large-scale equipment upgrades and the trade-in of consumer goods. These initiatives explicitly include the steady promotion of the installation of elevators in residential buildings, supporting the use of housing provident funds to install elevators and the use of residential special maintenance funds for elevator installation and replacement in accordance with regulations. Additionally, the city has been advancing safety assessments and hazard rectification for elevators that have been in use for over 15 years in old residential buildings, accelerating the replacement of elevators that do not meet current product standards and pose high safety risks in old residential buildings.

By the end of March this year, the replacement of all 20 elevators for which Huai'an City applied for support from the 2024 ultra-long-term special treasury bonds had been completed and accepted, with the elevators all registered with a certificate of conformity and operational.

During the elevator replacement process, housing and urban-rural development departments at all levels in Huai'an City consistently adhered to three key principles. First, they ensured thorough public opinion solicitation by establishing residential community elevator replacement working groups composed of representatives from housing and urban-rural development departments, market supervision authorities, sub-district offices, communities, professional supervision organizations, and residents. These groups extensively sought public opinions and suggestions to ensure that the elevator replacement work aligned with the will of the people. Second, they strictly managed the elevator project bidding process. Housing and urban-rural development departments or relevant platform companies organized elevator replacement project bidding through public resource trading platforms, rigorously adhering to government procurement procedures to ensure the standardized conduct of procurement activities throughout the entire process. Third, they maintained stringent quality control over elevator replacement projects, meticulously overseeing every stage from pre-construction safety technical briefings to on-site supervision and coordination during construction, and finally to post-completion inspection, delivery, and usage, ensuring excellence in every detail.