Research on Evaluation of Xi’an Shantytown Renovation Projects’ Social Benefit

Abstract

This research was based on questionnaire survey data of Xi’an shantytown residents in April 2016. According to literature analysis and the actual situation, we determined social benefit evaluation indexes, and used Factor Analysis to evaluate Xi’an shantytown renovation projects’ social benefit. The evaluation results showed that, Xi’an shantytown renovation projects have achieved relatively good social benefit on the whole, among which, the aspects of infrastructure construction and the residents living in harmony have obvious improvement, and the aspects of regional development and residents’ life quality also obtained certain social benefit, but the residents’ social activities and education development gained relatively poor social benefit. In view of this, this article put forward suggestions from three aspects: completing the infrastructure construction, increase the residents’ social activities, and implementing “people-oriented” transformation strategy.

Appendix Social Benefit Evaluation Indexes Table

Variable symbol	Variable name	Variable definition	Much worse than before	A little worse than before	Almost like before	A little better than before	Much better than before
$x_{1}$	Family per capita income	family income/family size	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{2}$	Family consumption level	Consuming ability	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{3}$	Per capita dwelling area	House area/family size	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{4}$	Dwelling living comfort	Degree of comfort	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{5}$	Education condition of children	Quality of school and convenience of access to school	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{6}$	Social range and means	Interpersonal range and diverse means of social activities	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{7}$	Social sites and environment	The environment of the social sites	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{8}$	Neighbourhood harmony	Do you get on well with your neighbour	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{9}$	Overall satisfaction with life	Subjective sensation of life satisfaction	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{10}$	Opportunity to attend cultural recreational activities	Access to cultural recreational activities	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{11}$	Pollution treatment	Treatment of effluent	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{12}$	Greening environment	Greening of the community	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{13}$	Hygiene condition	Treatment of rubbish	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{14}$	Water, power, gas supply		1	2	3	4	5
$x_{15}$	Heating condition		1	2	3	4	5
$x_{16}$	Convenience of transportation		1	2	3	4	5
$x_{17}$	Old-age care faculty and service	Are there any old-age care faculty and service in community	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{18}$	Popularization of digital TV and Internet	Do you install digital TV and Internet	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{19}$	Family employment status	How many your family members are employed	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{20}$	Renovation Region economic development	Do you think economic development turns up	1	2	3	4	5
$x_{21}$	Public security situation		1	2	3	4	5