Leiden Community of Zhongshan Subdistrict, Songjiang District, Shanghai Systematically Promotes Lighting Upgrade Project
To address the practical issue of early darkness in winter and inconvenience for residents’ travel, Leiden Community prioritizes safety as its top mission. Based on thorough research, the community has precisely added and replaced a total of 156 streetlights along the main roads and branch roads between residential buildings. These streetlights ensure no blind spots in nighttime illumination, significantly improving nighttime visibility and building a safety barrier for residents’ nighttime travel.
“Around 5 p.m. in winter, the community gradually turns pitch-dark. My child finishes junior high school late, and I always worry about them coming home,” said Ms. Zhang, who lives near the south gate. “Now it’s different. The main roads and paths in front of the buildings are brightly lit, and I feel much more at ease as a parent.”
On the basis of meeting basic lighting needs, the community is also committed to creating a warm and beautiful nighttime environment. In areas such as the ground floor of buildings at the south gate, the community’s landscape bridge, and trees near the north and east gates, decorative landscape light belts that combine aesthetics and functionality have been carefully arranged. The warm yellow light belts on the ground floor of the south gate buildings are perfectly designed, with soft and non-glaring light that reflects the smiling faces of residents returning home. Adorned with light belts, the landscape bridge not only ensures safe passage but also creates a picturesque scene with its reflection in the water, becoming a popular spot for taking photos at night. The decorative lights on trees in the north and east gate areas are ingeniously designed, all using low-energy LED lights, and tree growth is fully protected during installation. These sparkling tree lights have become a warm landscape in winter.
“Coming in through the north gate at night and seeing these lights relieves most of my tiredness from the whole day,” shared Xiao Chen, a young man who works overtime and returns late. Aunt Wang, a resident, sighed: “These lights give the community warmth. More people come out for walks at night, and neighborhood exchanges have become more frequent.”
It is reported that this lighting upgrade project originated from a proposal by community residents. The Party Branch of Leiden Residential Area responded promptly, conducted on-site research immediately, and worked efficiently with the Property Owners’ Committee and property management for communication and coordination. Giving full play to the leading role of Party building, the project was efficiently promoted and quickly implemented from planning to completion. What warms the heart is not only the lights but also the community’s listening and response to residents’ needs.
From “being lit up” to “being beautified,” the Party Branch of Leiden Residential Area has illuminated the warmth of people’s livelihood with every lamp, leveraged micro-renovation to achieve great happiness, vividly interpreting the profound connotation of “the Party and the people working together to gather strength for progress” in grassroots governance, and providing a vivid model for building a modern and livable community.