Named ＂big, foreign, strange and heavy＂, 151 communities in Xi ‘an are planned to be renamed.

Recently, many places have released "On the publicity of the list of nonstandard place names that need to be cleaned up and rectified",as mentioned in the publicity, the names of residential areas around the country will be cleaned up and rectified for reasons such as worshipping foreign things and obsessing foreign things, being weird and difficult to understand.

According to the reporter, the rectification of irregular place names will be carried out nationwide. The civil affairs departments, public security departments, housing construction departments and other relevant departments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government have received the Notice on Further Cleaning up and Rectifying Non-standard Geographical Names (hereinafter referred to as the Notice) issued by the six departments of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Transport and the State Administration of Market Supervision. In April this year, the Division of Geographical Names of the Ministry of Civil Affairs also held a demonstration training course on cleaning up and rectifying irregular geographical names in Kunming, Yunnan Province. A total of 200 persons in charge of place name management offices and business backbones of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps participated in the training. Civil affairs departments at all levels have successively issued notices to clean up and rectify irregular place names.

The "Notice" proposes that there are some areas.Irregular place names such as "big, foreign, strange and heavy" violate the core values of socialism, cut off the context of place names, damage the national culture and hinder the people’s production and life activities.The nonstandard place names in residential areas, large buildings, roads, streets and lanes should be standardized and standardized.

The so-called "big, foreign, strange and heavy" refers to:The meaning, type or scale of place names are deliberately exaggerated, and proper names or generic names far exceed the actual "big" place names that refer to geographical entities; "foreign" place names named after foreigners’ names and foreign words and their Chinese translation and writing forms; Blindly pursuing "weird" place names that are grotesque, with nonstandard names, vulgar meanings or strong feudal colors; "Heavy" place names with the same names or homonyms in a certain area.

The annex attached to the Notice lists in detail the principles and standard cases of identifying nonstandard place names.

If you use the words "the universe, the world, the nations, the world" at will without approval, it is a deliberately exaggerated "big" place name;

"Lincoln Apartment, Columbus Square, Manhattan Community, Champs Elysé es Community" and other "foreign" place names that worship foreign things and flatter foreign countries;

Place names such as "99 Building, California 1886" with random numbers and no practical meaning, and places with strong feudal colors such as "Imperial Court and Imperial House" are all "strange" place names.

However, the Notice also specifically pointed out that place names that have existed in history, have commemorative significance or reflect the friendship between Chinese and foreign people do not belong to foreign place names that worship foreign things and flatter foreign countries, such as Bethune International Peace Hospital, Hilton Hotel and Siemens Company. Foreign abbreviations that have specific meanings and are widely known do not belong to "weird" place names with bizarre meanings, such as places with abbreviations such as "APEC, CBD, IT".

The "Notice" requires that all localities should complete the standardization of nonstandard geographical names before the end of June 2019.

In particular, the Notice proposes that the principles of "prudent and prudent implementation according to law" and "people-oriented, facilitating the people and benefiting the people" should be adhered to in cleaning up and rectifying irregular place names, and the list of irregular place names should be determined scientifically and reasonably, and those that can or can not be changed should not be changed, so as to prevent the indiscriminate change of old place names and ensure the overall stability of place names.

Official website, the government of Xi ‘an, also issued a notice on printing and distributing the Measures for the Administration of Building Naming in Xi ‘an, which came into effect in July this year. It is forbidden to use grotesque, boastful and ambiguous words for naming, and to put an end to such irregular place names as "big, foreign, strange and heavy".

The Civil Affairs Bureaus of all districts and counties in Xi ‘an, the County Bureaus of the Municipal Natural Resources Planning Bureau, the Civil Affairs Bureau of Xixian New Area People’s Society, the Natural Resources Bureau and the Planning and Housing Construction Bureau, and the Social Affairs Bureaus of the Development Zones (Social Administration Bureau):

"Xi ‘an building naming management measures" has been approved by the general office of the municipal government and approved by the Municipal Bureau of Justice. It is issued to you, please follow it.

Xi ‘an Civil Affairs Bureau Xi ‘an Resource Planning Bureau

May 28, 2019

On June 19th, the reporter of Huashang Daily was informed that according to the unified deployment of the country to clean up and rectify irregular place names and the requirements of the Notice of the Second National Geographical Names Survey Leading Group of Xi ‘an on Doing a Good Job in Cleaning up and Rectifying Irregular Place Names in Our City (Shi Di Pu [2019] No.1), the irregular place names such as "big, foreign, strange and heavy" in Xi ‘an were thoroughly investigated, and the statistical table of irregular place names is as follows:

Issues that Xi ‘an citizens are generally concerned about:

After the name of the community is changed, will it have an impact on ID cards and real estate licenses?

In this regard, Li Fuan, director of the Division of Geographical Names of Xi ‘an Civil Affairs Bureau, told reporters that according to the current situation, the names of 151 communities in Xi ‘an need to be changed. Now the districts and counties are publicizing, and they will be publicized again after the market is over. There will be no substantive problems in issues such as ID cards and real estate licenses that the masses care about. "The address of ID cards is generally registered in streets and house numbers, and it is rarely specific to communities. It is generally used for travel, so it will not be seen. There is generally no community name on the real estate license, which does not affect the transaction. If an individual has a community name, which has an impact on the later transaction, the public can issue a certificate to the civil affairs department. Whether it is the civil affairs department at the district or county level, it will do a good job of coordination for the citizens. "

Li Fuan said that before this work was carried out, the six departments of Xi ‘an, including public security and housing construction, all discussed it together, and then formulated a unified implementation plan to ensure that it would not have an impact on people’s lives. "Many big, foreign and strange names are not in harmony with the overall image of Xi ‘an."

It is understood that not only Xi’ an, but also the whole province is conducting a thorough investigation. The province has macro requirements for clean-up work, requiring proper information changes to minimize the inconvenience and influence brought to the people by the renaming of place names.

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Measures for the Administration of Building Naming in Xi ‘an

Article 1 In order to strengthen the naming management of buildings with geographical names in our city, clarify the application scope and technical specifications of building names, and build a geographical name management system with ancient city cultural characteristics, these measures are formulated in accordance with the Regulations on the Administration of Geographical Names in the State Council, the Measures for the Implementation of the Regulations on the Administration of Geographical Names in Shaanxi Province and the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Administration of Geographical Names in Xi ‘an, combined with the actual situation of our city.

Article 2 The buildings with geographical names mentioned in these Measures (hereinafter referred to as buildings) refer to various independent large-scale production, operation, service, residence, public welfare and memorial buildings.

These Measures shall apply to the naming, renaming, use and related management activities of building names within the administrative area of this Municipality.

Article 3 The naming of buildings shall be subject to the system of declaration and examination. When the project construction unit declares the project, it shall go to the civil affairs department to go through the examination procedures of building name declaration and obtain the standard name of the building according to law. Failing to go through the formalities of building declaration and examination, the resource planning department will inform the place name management department of the name of the building proposed by the project construction unit for examination when going through the relevant examination and approval procedures of the building, and the place name management department will timely feedback the examination opinions to the resource planning department.

Article 4 Building naming declaration shall be under centralized management and graded responsibility. According to the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 12 of the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of Geographical Names Management in Xi ‘an, if the construction project is approved by the municipal department, the building naming procedures shall be reported to the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau; Approved by the county, the development zone, respectively, to the county civil affairs department, the development zone name management department to declare the building naming procedures. The name of the building approved by the audit is the standard name.

Fifth project construction units to declare the building naming procedures, must hold the construction project application documents and the proposed naming scheme, to declare the naming application to the civil affairs department at the same level. Upon examination, if the building name meets the application scope and technical specifications, the Civil Affairs Department will issue the "Xi ‘an Building Name Use Certificate", whose name has exclusive rights and is protected by the laws and regulations on place names.

Article 6 The naming of buildings shall meet the following specifications:

(a) the name of the building should be composed of proper names and generic names, with proper names in the front and generic names in the back. Proper names should be healthy and concise, with clear meaning, in line with the usage habits of modern Chinese, and generic names should reflect the functional category attributes of buildings. Do not use grotesque, boastful and ambiguous words for naming, put an end to nonstandard place names such as "big, foreign, strange and heavy", and avoid using uncommon words and polyphonic words. Advocate the use of names that have historical and cultural value and are consistent with the historical and cultural features of our city, so as to serve our city in building an international metropolis with historical and cultural characteristics.

(2) The naming of buildings shall not use words that damage national dignity, hinder national unity, violate social morality, have vulgar style and are prone to misunderstanding or ambiguity, and shall not be named after words that promote feudal dignitaries and superstitions.

(3) Except those with historical and cultural origins and brands of foreign enterprises, buildings in this city shall not be named after foreigners’ names, place names, words translated into foreign languages or words written in foreign languages.

(four) except for memorial buildings, the names of party and state leaders and the names of landmark buildings with specific political colors and meanings shall not be used to make buildings.

(five) shall not use the well-known trademarks and brand names owned by the applicant to name the building; If a building is named after a trademark or brand name owned by the applicant, the name should be crowned with words showing its orientation to reflect the referential function of the building name.

(six) the name of the building should be coordinated with its purpose, scale and quality, and avoid using nonstandard names such as "big, foreign, strange and heavy". The identification of nonstandard building names shall be carried out with reference to the principles and standards for the identification of nonstandard place names included in the clean-up and rectification determined by the Provincial Civil Affairs Department, the Provincial Public Security Department and other departments.

(7) The proper names of administrative regions below the county level within the jurisdiction of this Municipality, such as domain names, area names, streets and lanes, shall generally be used within the jurisdiction or along roads.

(eight) the names of buildings in urban areas and counties shall not have the same name or homonym.

Article 7 The generic name of a building shall meet the following specifications:

(a) should be consistent with the building construction level, building scale, functional form and environment.

(two) it is forbidden to use the same generic names overlapping, such as the building square.

(3) Residential areas and commercial and residential buildings (groups) are commonly known as "buildings, mansions, gardens, cities, apartments, villas, courts, houses, residences, mansions, pavilions, courtyards, houses, pavilions, squares, new villages, villas, blocks, etc."

(4) Buildings (groups) for non-residential purposes are commonly called "buildings, mansions, gardens, gardens, cities, palaces, pavilions, squares, centers", etc.

(five) residential areas and buildings shall not use the generic names of administrative areas, and shall not use words that are inconsistent with the name and are easy to cause ambiguity.

(six) large-scale residential areas, buildings can be named by the internal group names, and the internal group names must meet the technical specifications of generic names.

(seven) the use of the following generic names shall conform to its scope of application:

1. Building (building): refers to a comprehensive high-rise or large building.

2. Commercial building: refers to high-rise or large-scale buildings that are all used for business or mainly for business, supplemented by offices and residences.

3. Square: generally speaking, it refers to a city land with a wide and open outdoor public space, surrounded by multi-functional large buildings such as business, office, entertainment and residence, which can be used for people’s activities, leisure and sightseeing. Buildings dominated by high-rise buildings are not allowed to be named after squares. If "Square" is used as a generic name, words indicating dominant use can be used in the name, such as "XX Commercial Plaza".

4. Center: generally refers to a non-residential building (group) with a large floor area or building area and a special function. With "Center" as the generic name, words indicating the dominant use can be used in the name, such as "XX Business Center".

5. City: refers to a closed or semi-closed large-scale building complex with functions of residence, commerce, office and entertainment.

6. Villa (villa): generally refers to a residential area approved by the planning department as a villa project or with low plot ratio, high greening rate, certain garden landscape and elegant environment. The naming of villas should be strictly controlled.

7. Garden, Garden: Generally, it refers to a residential area with a certain artificial scenic spot and green area, elegant and beautiful, with a greening rate of more than 35%.

8. Villa: generally speaking, it refers to a low-density high-grade residential area built on the mountain, with a greening rate of over 35%, a certain garden landscape and elegant environment.

9. Block: generally speaking, it refers to an open and comprehensive large-scale building complex with service functions such as business and residence.

10. Village (new village): generally refers to a residential area with a large floor area and a large building scale, which is suitable for the newly-built independent residential area with perfect living facilities after urban relocation and transformation.

11. Apartment (new apartment): generally refers to a residential area composed of high-rise residential buildings or multiple residential buildings.

12. Residential quarter: generally refers to an independent residential quarter with a large floor area and large building scale and relatively complete living facilities, with no less than two main residential buildings.

13. Museums and palaces: generally refers to buildings (groups) with functions such as culture, education, science and technology, art, entertainment and sports.

14. Pavilion and porch: generally speaking, it refers to single office, cultural, commercial and residential buildings with no more than 7 floors above ground.

15. Fang, Li, Fu, Xie, Di, Lu, Zhu, Ting, Yuan, Ju, Zhai: generally refers to commercial buildings, residential buildings or residential areas with small floor space and construction scale.

16. Hotels, restaurants and hotels: generally speaking, they refer to relatively independent buildings and buildings with the functions of accommodation, catering, entertainment and shopping of a certain building scale.

Article 8 A generic name that is not included in Article 7 of these Measures shall be demonstrated by experts organized by the place name management department, and it can only be used after it has been demonstrated and its application scope and technical specifications have been formulated.

Article 9 The name of a building that does not meet the specifications in Articles 6 and 7 of these Measures shall be renamed.

Article 10 To declare the name of a building, the following materials shall be submitted: an application report for the examination of the name of the building and an application document for the establishment of a construction project.

Eleventh building names should remain relatively stable, generally not renamed. If it is really necessary to change its name, it shall meet one of the following conditions:

(a) the main owner of the building has changed.

(two) the main function of the building has changed.

Twelfth residential areas and buildings to declare the name change, in addition to submitting the application report of building name audit, it should also submit the original "Xi ‘an Building Name Use Certificate" and the relevant certification materials that the owners’ committee or property rights unit agreed to rename. After the place name management department agrees to change its name, it will cancel the original name and issue a new "Xi ‘an Building Name Use Certificate".

Thirteenth names of buildings shall not be used in official documents, news reports and advertisements without the examination and determination of the place name management department. All kinds of place name signs and real estate advertisements must strictly use the names of buildings that have been examined and determined, and no words may be added, deleted or changed. Building property units, property management departments or other users should use the name of the building as determined by the place name management department when handling the relevant administrative examination and approval procedures.

Fourteenth buildings to apply for a house number, must provide the relevant procedures for the use of the name of the building as determined by the place name management department.

Fifteenth in violation of the provisions of these measures, unauthorized naming and renaming of buildings, place name management departments should inform them to stop using non-standard names, and make corrections within a time limit.

Article 16 These Measures shall come into force as of July 1, 2019 and shall be valid for five years.

(The original title is "Full List Announced! These 151 communities in Xi ‘an will be renamed [with description of irregular situation]].