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Shared living room: a small space carrying a large livelihood

2025-10-13   

Recently, nine departments including the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Civil Affairs jointly issued a notice on strengthening the promotion of the construction, expansion, and upgrading of the 15 minute convenient living circle in cities, which clearly proposes to "encourage sharing economy models such as shared living rooms, shared study rooms, and shared toolboxes", and regards the development of new models such as shared living rooms as an important lever for continuously promoting urban renewal actions and promoting the construction, expansion, and upgrading of convenient living circles. In recent years, shared living rooms have quietly emerged in many places and become a frequent "energy center" for residents in many communities. As an innovative model of community governance, shared living rooms effectively activate idle space resources, reconstruct a new pattern of community governance with neighborhood relations as the core, and create a warm and mutual aid network. This not only responds to the challenges of community governance in the process of urbanization, but also brings tangible benefits to residents, becoming a vivid practice of the concept of co construction, co governance, and sharing implemented at the grassroots level. Although the physical space of a shared living room is limited, its economic value and social significance cannot be underestimated. One is to help optimize resource allocation and meet diverse spatial needs. Paid shared living rooms can not only activate idle space, improve resource utilization efficiency, but also bring additional benefits to venue owners; It can also provide users with flexible, convenient, and cost-effective diversified services to meet their temporary and short-term space needs, effectively solving the problem of finding a venue. Secondly, it can effectively rebuild community social capital. The community shared living room provides an open and inclusive shared space, providing a platform for residents to move from closed private lives to public interactions, promoting the transformation of "strangers" into "harmonious neighbors", and rebuilding trust and a sense of belonging through interaction. Thirdly, innovative community governance mechanisms can be established. Through mechanisms such as neighborhood discussion corners, community shared living rooms provide residents with a normalized platform to express their demands and make decisions on public affairs, effectively expanding channels for public opinion communication, fully leveraging the organizational advantages of grassroots organizations, and effectively stimulating the potential of self-management, self-service, and self-monitoring of the masses, becoming an important carrier for promoting grassroots consultative democracy and mass participation. Fourthly, it can enhance the efficiency of community services. The shared living room promotes interaction among all parties through open and immersive services, achieving a transformation from management to service, from passive response to active intervention, effectively improving the accessibility and effectiveness of grassroots services. Making shared living rooms benefit more communities depends on our continuous efforts in various aspects. Shared living rooms should be designed with differentiation based on the actual needs of the community and residents, scientifically planned and reasonably laid out to achieve precise positioning and distinctive development, and avoid rushing and redundant construction. For example, Baishui County in Shaanxi Province has implemented the construction of shared living rooms with "one community, one theme, and one characteristic", which can effectively meet the practical demands of different communities. At the same time, it is necessary to effectively integrate resources from all parties, actively guide enterprises, institutions, social organizations, and market entities to participate in joint construction, and provide long-term and sustainable resource support and mechanism guarantees for the construction of shared living rooms. In addition, we will promote the construction of shared living rooms according to local conditions. For example, in old residential areas, efforts can be made to revitalize idle spaces and provide community services; In public rental housing communities, functional integration models can be explored to integrate party building propaganda, government services, entrepreneurship support, and public welfare activities, synergistically promoting community integration and resident development; In aging communities, efforts can be made to create age friendly shared spaces; In communities where teenagers gather, the cultural characteristics of reading can be highlighted, creating a shared space for reading and creating a good community cultural atmosphere. As an innovative carrier of community governance, shared living rooms also need to be continuously optimized and iteratively upgraded. Establish a sustainable operation mechanism, improve the development model of "government guidance+social operation+resident participation", and effectively resolve the problem of "heavy construction, light operation". Strengthen digital empowerment, promote the construction of smart living rooms, achieve multi network integration of party building, government affairs, community management, and commercial services, and enhance residents' service experience. Deepen content construction, unite people's hearts through activities, actively carry out high-quality public services covering science popularization, education, culture, commerce and other fields, provide more diverse public products, and effectively enhance the attractiveness of shared living rooms. (New Society)

Edit:Luo yu Responsible editor:Wang er dong

Source:GMW.cn

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