Abstract: The government should pay attention to what peoples concerns. The transformation of old residential areas in cities and towns is an important starting point to promot new urbanization, build people-oriented cities, and create high-quality living spaces for the people in the new era. It is also an important project related to people's livelihood, development and modernization of social governance. Therefore, it is necessary to follow the value orientation of "people-oriented cities serve people"; to conform to the new development stage, new development concept, and new development pattern of the times; to creatively solve the problems of the transformation of old residential areas; to promote the transformation of old residential areas with high-quality and efficiency; and to speed up the construction of a modern governance system of "co-construction, co-governance and sharing".