Abstract:The "old community + sponge" is an important measure to enhance the urban toughness and improve the living environment of residents. As the first batch of sponge demonstration city in China for Shantou, the integration of the concept of sponge city into the reconstruction of old community is one of its important demonstration features. There are many old communities in the central urban area of Shantou. It is greatly difficult to implement the sponge reconstruction because of its poor infrastructures and low living environmental quality. By systematically analyzing the needs and difficulties in the reconstruction of the old communities in Shantou, a whole-process technical scheme of old community reconstruction is put forward from the three-level technical measures of "selection and grading mechanism" before the reconstruction, "adopting measures according to local conditions" in the reconstruction, and "mechanism of operation, maintenance and management" after the reconstruction. The research results provide the technical reference for the sponge reconstruction of the old communities in Shantou and other cities in China.