We have sped up rebuilding run-down areas in cities in recent years and made major progress. Still, about 40 million people – 70 percent of them are retired employees – live in contiguous areas of shanty dwellings in either cities or industrial and mining areas, forest regions, and land reclamation areas.

这些年来我们加快了棚户区改造，取得很大成效。但即便如此，现在我国集中连片的各类棚户区、包括城市、工矿以及独立工矿区、林区、垦区棚户区，还居住着大约4000万人，其中70%是退休职工。