What is the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau?

The Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, the Construction Bureau, the full name of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development (Planning) Bureau, is the administrative department in charge of the construction industry at the county (or district) level. The Construction Bureau and the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau are the same concept, but they have different names, which are determined by the name of the agency organized by the local government.

The main functions of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau are the approval, planning and certification of housing and construction. A few years ago, there was only the Construction Committee, which was later changed to the Urban Construction Bureau and later (now) was refined into the Urban Construction Bureau and the Urban Housing Construction Bureau.

The specific functions are:

(1) Implement relevant national and provincial laws, regulations, guidelines and policies, research, formulate and organize the implementation of engineering construction, urban construction, village and town construction in our city , development strategies, policy measures, implementation methods and reform plans for the construction industry, municipal utilities, survey and design consulting industry, and building materials industry, as well as the formulation of relevant normative documents. ?

(2) Based on the city’s medium- and long-term plans and annual plans for economic and social development, prepare the city’s annual plans for urban construction projects and annual plans for the use of urban maintenance and construction funds; organize, guide, inspect, and supervise Implementation of urban construction projects; responsible for balancing, scheduling and supervising the use of urban construction funds; collecting and managing fees related to urban construction in urban areas. ?

(3) Responsible for the management of the city's construction industry, building decoration industry and construction market, guiding and standardizing the construction market; responsible for the management of construction project construction licenses, engineering facility use licenses, project completion acceptance filing and other management work . Participate in the coordination and management of key engineering projects; responsible for the review of urban construction project expansion and preliminary design plans, approval of construction drawings, and guidance of the city's construction drawing review; responsible for the management of city-wide construction project applications, bidding, project transactions, project quality supervision, and engineering Safety supervision, project cost management, project construction supervision, as well as researching and formulating relevant regulations, measures and supervising their implementation; responsible for the planning, development and utilization of urban underground space; comprehensive management of the city's seismic fortification and attached civil air defense project construction work; organizing and coordinating construction Enterprises participate in international project contracting and construction labor cooperation; comprehensively manage the safety and security facilities of foreign-related construction projects in the city. ?

(4) Responsible for the construction, management and comprehensive coordination of urban municipal public facilities, responsible for urban passenger transportation and gas management; responsible for the comprehensive improvement of the urban environment; responsible for organizing and selecting the Human Settlements Environment Award.

(5) Responsible for the management of the city’s building materials industry, guiding and regulating the building materials market; responsible for building energy conservation; responsible for the reform of new wall materials and the promotion and application of comprehensive utilization of bulk cement and fly ash.

(6) Responsible for guiding the planning, construction and related management of villages and towns in the city.

(7) Responsible for the management of the city's survey and design industry, guide and standardize the survey and design market, research and formulate relevant regulations and measures for the engineering survey and design industry, and supervise their implementation.

(8) Responsible for organizing the formulation and implementation of the city's construction science and technology development plans, plans and technical and economic policies, and inspecting and supervising the implementation. Organize the research of scientific and technological projects, the transformation of scientific research results, the development, introduction, promotion and application of new technologies.

(9) Responsible for the supervision and law enforcement of urban engineering construction, building materials, municipal utilities, urban groundwater resources, etc., hear administrative reconsideration of construction cases in various counties (cities, districts) in accordance with the law, research, formulate, and submit for approval Relevant normative documents.

(10) Responsible for the city’s engineering construction series professional titles and practitioner qualification management; responsible for the management qualifications of construction companies, municipal construction companies, building decoration companies, survey and design industries, construction engineering intermediaries, and public utility companies review or application; responsible for the qualification management of project managers in the construction industry.

(11) Responsible for the construction of spiritual civilization in all departments and units of the construction system. Responsible for the cadres, personnel, labor wages, social security, production safety, comprehensive management, family planning, human and military support, and security of the bureau and units directly under the bureau.

(12) Manage urban construction archives and guide the construction archives work of counties (cities, districts).

(13) Entrusted by the municipal government, it is responsible for urban water supply, planned water use, water conservation, groundwater development protection management and sewage treatment in urban planning areas; responsible for urban culvert gates, river management and flood prevention and drainage work.

(14) Undertake other matters assigned by the municipal government.