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About 66,000 urban renewal projects were carried out across the country last year, and 2.6 trillion yuan of investment was made in these projects.

Workers paint the wall of the Potala Palace during an annual renovation of the ancient architectural complex in Lhasa.

In June 2003, Zhejiang Province launched the "Thousand Villages Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" project, with the aim of comprehensively renovating ten thousand administrative villages in the province and building a thousand key villages of them into all-round well-off model villages. For twenty years, the project has created thousands of beautiful villages, and fundamentally changed the face of the province's countryside. 

After completing its renovations, the ancient mandala-like compound Jebumgang in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region has drawn much public attention as a cultural and art center.

People sit at a teahouse in the Shancheng Alley in Chongqing, southwest China, Feb. 26, 2022. Located on the bank of the Yangtze River and built along mountain and cliff, Shancheng Alley used to be a footpath for local residents.