December 2, 1986 (Bingyin the winter in early one), the first national urban housing census results released.

1986 12, 2, 2009, the Urban and Rural Construction and Environmental Protection and the National Bureau of Statistics released the first national urban housing census results and statistics show that China's 28 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, cities and towns within the scope of the census, housing construction area of ​​4.676 billion square meters, including 323 municipalities (excluding municipal county) Housing 2.833 billion square meters, accounting for 60%, slightly lower than the level of urban residents living district towns. (Lssjt.cn)
this lasted 2 years, China's urban housing census, since July 1984, a total of 28 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities (Tibet Autonomous Region to suspend census, Taiwan Province, not census), 323 cities, 1,951 counties (banners), 5270 towns and industrial and mining areas of housing and 150 million people (urban population) housing by buildings, mapping, measuring and registration of the door-to-door, made of various raw data 1550000000 basic identification China's urban housing situation and the living level.
this census within households Total 39,770,000 1.509 billion square meters of residential use of the area; living area of ​​956 million square meters, the average of 24.04 m2, 6.36 m2 per capita. After the founding of New China in various types of housing available in the new accounting for 91%, especially after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the party, built housing more than 3.2 billion square meters, accounting for 68.61% of the total.
old towns, simple houses more; proportion of the various types of housing is not enough balance, with the development of the commodity economy and the life of urban residents need to be incompatible; towns lack of room households also account for a considerable proportion, many houses poor quality, the environment is not good, and poorly equipped.