What does residential category mean?

The residential category is divided into "Class 1 Residential Land" (R1), "Class 2 Residential Land" (R2), "Class 3 Residential Land" (R3), and "Class 4 Residential Land" (R4)

The "Class 1 Residential Land" and "Class 2 Residential Land" are mainly used for residential purposes. "Class 4 Residential Land (R4)

The "Class 1 Residential Land" and "Class 2 Residential Land" are mainly urban residential land, which is state-owned and owned by the owners of urban residential areas***. Owners of residential areas*** have the right to use the land in the residential areas. In terms of the architectural form of the dwellings, the urban residential dwellings now being built include detached dwellings and ordinary unit-type dwellings. The number of detached houses is very small, mainly in the form of low-rise villas; unit-type housing is the most common form of housing in the city, generally for multi-storey, medium-high and high-rise one-staircase multi-family buildings. Residential areas formed by detached houses and unit-type houses are planned and built by development units, with sparse and dense distribution of buildings and better residential facilities. Using these two types of buildings as classification criteria, two intermediate categories, "Class I Residential Land" and "Class II Residential Land," have been established. Specifically, "Class I Residential Land" refers to sites with a high concentration of detached dwellings, a full range of ancillary facilities and a complete layout, where the number of storeys of detached dwellings is basically three or less. "Residential land use category 2" covers sites with a wide distribution of multi-storey, medium-high and high-rise residential buildings with complete supporting facilities and a complete layout, which are widely distributed in the city and dominate the residential land use. According to the trend of tightening land supply and the principle of land intensification, the possibility of constructing residential units of less than three storeys in the future is basically non-existent. Therefore, the inclusion of sites for residential units of less than three storeys will not be considered in the "Class II Residential Land".

About "Residential Land Type 3" (R3): "Residential Land Type 3" is mainly for residential buildings in industrial zones, warehousing zones, schools (especially universities) and other functional zones, and mainly accommodates single employees of enterprises or single teachers and students of schools. They are mainly used for accommodating single employees of enterprises or single teachers and students of schools, and these residential buildings often appear as ancillary facilities in industrial zones, warehousing areas and schools. The biggest difference between single dormitories and ordinary residential units in terms of household structure is the absence of independent kitchens. At present, Shenzhen single dormitory construction there are two main ways, one is in order to facilitate the workers to and from work, in one or two types of industrial zones in the construction of single dormitory buildings, independent of the occupation of land and shall not be mixed with the construction of industrial plants, but also to take the necessary health and environmental protection measures to meet the requirements of the spacing of the residential buildings, so that the single staff dormitory occupies a part of the industrial land; the other is outside of the industrial land The other is the single-employee dormitory area constructed in pieces outside the industrial land, and this dormitory area often has relatively independent residential and living functions, forming a certain scale of residential population and building area, with certain living facilities of its own, and planned and constructed in accordance with the relevant standards for residential land. From the point of view of favoring land management and planning management as well as responding to the needs of the current development and construction of single dormitories, the land occupied by single dormitories in the first case is included in the industrial land (M), while the land used for single dormitories in the latter case belongs to the third category of residential land (R3). Since the residents of the single dormitory area are mainly singles, there is no need to build kindergartens, nurseries and other facilities, but other community sports facilities, cultural activities, medical and health care, community management, commercial services and other facilities need to be built accordingly. Therefore, compared with "Class 1 Residential Land" and "Class 2 Residential Land", there is one less sub-category of land under "Class 3 Residential Land", which is childcare land. "Single dormitory" (R31), "Type 3 community sports facilities" (R33) and "Type 3 other community facilities" (R34), "Class 3 Residential Road Land" (R35) and "Class 3 Residential Green Space" (R36). It should be noted that as the sub-classes of land under the four residential land use categories are basically the same, except for the absence of the sub-class of "Class 3 Residential Land" under the "Class 3 Child Care Land" category, they all contain six sub-classes of land with similar names. For ease of use and memorization, the order and numbering of the subcategories under the middle category of each site are consistent, and the numbering of the vacant "Class 3 Residential Land" under the "Class 3 Child Care Land" remains vacant.

Note on "Residential Land Use Category 4" (R4): Due to historical reasons, the situation of "Residential Land for Former Rural Inhabitants" is extremely complicated in terms of land ownership, building form, and the identity of the owner of the residential property, etc. Most of the residential land for former rural inhabitants is in the form of "R4". Most of the residential land of former rural residents is collective land, basically through the way of farmers' self-build, the division of residential land is basically relatively centralized in the form of villages, and the form of self-built houses is multi-storey or medium-high-storey single-family houses, thus forming an extremely dense distribution of single-family house clusters in villages, and is a cluster of residential buildings in the urban spatial form with a more special material spatial texture. At present, Shenzhen's former rural residential buildings have formed a certain scale, accommodating a large number of rural residents, former rural residents who have already changed to urban residents and temporary residents. With a view to the future trend of urban construction, rural residential buildings will be gradually transformed, with the focus on perfecting the supporting facilities and improving the environment. Therefore, in this "Urban Land Use Classification and Code List", the residential land for former rural residents and its corresponding ancillary facilities are included as a separate land use category, "Class IV Residential Land", including "Residential Land for Former Rural Residents "(R41), "Class 4 Child Care Land" (R42), "Class 4 Community Sports Facilities Land" (R43), "Class 4 Other Community Facilities Land " (R44), "Class IV Residential Road Land" (R45) and "Class IV Residential Green Space" (R46), and other six site sub-categories. Compared with the "five types of residential land" in the "Urban Land Use Classification and Code List" of the "Standards and Guidelines" (97th edition), the scope of "four types of residential land" is more comprehensively defined in the Standards and Guidelines, and the "former rural residential land" is more comprehensively defined. The scope of "four types of residential land" is more comprehensively defined in the Criteria and Guidelines than "five types of residential land" in the "Classification and Code List of Classified Land", and the name of "original rural residential land" is more accurate than the name of "rural residential land" in the "Criteria and Guidelines" (97th edition). Therefore, in the new land use classification and code list, the new land use type names and scope definitions have replaced the relevant land use types in the Criteria and Guidelines (97th edition).