Per-capita 9.6 Square Meters of Floorspace by People Now in Shanghai กกกก"A per-capital average of 9.6 square meters of floorspace by Shanghai people is by no means easy; it crystallizes our effort made in the last 12 years", as it has been reported from a leading official of Shanghai. By the middle of the 80s, it was told, there had resided altogether 1.80 million families in the city proper of Shanghai. There had been found in a straitened situation 899,800 families with a small space of living and among these were included 210,000 with a per-capita average of no more than 4 square meters and 16,660 families with a per-capita amount of 2 square meters less of space to live. But since launching of the "Difficulties Removing Project" to help straitened households move into new housing in Shanghai in the last 12 years there has been brought about a complete change to things of the past. A gladdening fact is that all straitened households as those said above have been helped out of their past difficulties in housing. Known to Shanghai people is now a per-capita average of 9.6 square meters of floorspace that has been constructed though an increased floorspace continues to be promised when civil construction is being undertaken on a municipal scale. Typical is a world of change in the family life of Zhang Jihua, a worker from Shanghai Motor Repair Plant. Instead of sharing a small living space of merely 13.6 square meters by a family of six like his 12 years past they have come to own an apartment of 76.81 square meters. HomeNews 1999-02-14 Page1 Full Story in Chinese