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"The residential community is so good that I can smell the fragrance of the flowers outside from the window," Wang said. "Walking around, listening to the birds singing, I feel so comfortable living here."
In addition to the general improvements in housing conditions, Shanghai also adopted a major housing reform policy when it started allowing property purchases in 1980. Since then, China has seen the end of its welfare system of housing allocation and the birth of housing commercialization. The real estate industry has entered a new stage of development. The Chinese are enjoying better living conditions today than they did decades ago.
"You can see for yourself how nice the surroundings of our residential community are," Wang felt quite satisfied when talking about her current home. "This is the best house I have ever lived in during my 90 years."
Wang said she now has not much time to live in her own house because all her sons, daughters and grandchildren have bought their own houses and vie with each other to invite her to live with them.
"Their houses are bigger, and the surroundings are more beautiful," Wang said. "The place in which my old house was located has prospered so much that I even can't recognize it."
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