What approval procedures are required to start a construction project?

1. Shenzhen City

On May 27, 2020, the Shenzhen Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau issued the "Notice on the Review and Reform of Construction Drawings for Construction Projects in Our City."

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Starting from July 1st, construction drawing review will be canceled for new, expanded, renovated housing and municipal (including water affairs, transportation) projects in Shenzhen, and a notification and commitment system will be implemented. All administrative licenses shall not be subject to construction drawing review documents as a precondition. Major projects in transportation, water conservancy, energy and other fields that need to be submitted to provincial and national approvals, except major hazardous source projects such as oil and gas depots, long-distance oil and gas pipelines, civil explosion warehouses, confidential projects, and rail transit projects.

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The construction unit has the primary responsibility for the quality and safety management of survey and design. Survey and design units bear the main responsibility for the quality and safety management of survey and design. Construction, survey, and design units implement a project leader system.

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From 0:00 on July 1, 2020, the Shenzhen Survey and Design Construction Drawing Review System will be closed, and the files and information in the system will be automatically transferred to the management system.

2. Shandong Province

On March 19, 2020, the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Shandong Provincial People's Government issued the "Shandong Provincial Committee of the CPC and Shandong Provincial People's Government" Guiding Opinions on Deepening Institutional Innovation and Accelerating Process Reengineering", which proposes "optimizing the approval process for engineering construction projects."

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Precisely optimize the approval process of engineering construction projects by region and category, streamline and merge relevant approval matters and technical review links, and the approval of simple low-risk projects within the province shall not exceed 20 working days.

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Reform the engineering drawing review mechanism and explore the elimination of construction drawing review in the China (Shandong) Pilot Free Trade Zone, China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Zone, and Qingdao West Coast New Area Or the scope of review may be narrowed, and the province will cancel it in accordance with the law before the end of December 2020, implement a notification and commitment system and a lifelong responsibility system for designers, and implement a survey and design liability insurance system.

3. Nanjing City

On September 3, 2019, the Nanjing Urban and Rural Development Committee issued the "Nanjing City's Implementation of Optimizing the Approval Services for New Social Investment Simple and Low-Risk Projects" Notice of "Opinions", the following reforms will be carried out for simple and low-risk social investment projects:

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Canceling construction drawing review;

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Except for special construction projects and crowded places, fire protection acceptance and filing are cancelled;

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Design review is canceled;

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Cancel the acceptance of civil air defense, transportation, completion files, and the acceptance of water, electricity, gas and other projects.

4. Qingdao City

On September 12, 2019, the Qingdao West Coast New Area Management Committee Office issued the "Notice on Further Improving the Efficiency of Administrative Approval for Project Construction", proposing:

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Since September 12, 2019, all construction projects within the jurisdiction of Qingdao West Coast New District have implemented a survey and design quality and safety commitment system.

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When handling administrative approval procedures such as fire protection, civil air defense, and construction permits, the construction unit must submit the "Survey and Design Quality and Safety Commitment" signed by *** from the construction, survey, and design units. "Book", it is no longer required to submit the "Construction Drawing Design Document Review Certificate".

5. Shanxi Province

In July 2019, the Shanxi Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued the "Opinions on Further Deepening the Reform of the Construction Drawing Review System and Strengthening the Quality Management of Survey and Design (Trial)" The notice proposes:

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From July 1, 2019, a quality commitment system for construction, survey and design units and an expert evaluation system for construction drawings of important projects will be implemented to strictly implement lifelong quality responsibility. system, cancel the current construction drawing review link of social intermediaries for housing construction and municipal infrastructure projects, the province's construction drawing review agencies will stop undertaking new review business, and those that have already been undertaken will complete the review according to the original procedures.

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Implement the survey and design quality commitment system.

When applying for a construction license for housing construction and municipal infrastructure projects across the province, a survey and design quality commitment letter must be submitted.

6. Guangzhou City

On August 26, 2019, the Guangzhou Municipal Government issued the "Notice on Issuing the Implementation Plan for Further Deepening the Reform of the Construction Project Approval System in Guangzhou City", proposing that :

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Explore the cancellation of the review of construction drawings and design documents for government-invested housing construction projects and municipal infrastructure projects, and strengthen the main responsibility of the construction unit. The construction unit can according to the actual situation of the project , decide on their own whether to entrust a third party to review construction drawing design documents. The construction unit can apply for construction permit approval by issuing a letter of commitment and submitting construction drawings signed by qualified design units and registered designers.

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For government-invested large-scale housing construction projects and large and medium-sized municipal infrastructure projects, the preliminary design (including budget estimates) shall be reviewed and approved by the industry authorities; For small and medium-sized housing construction projects and small municipal infrastructure projects, the construction unit shall organize a preliminary design review and issue technical review opinions, and does not need to report to the industry competent department for approval.

7. Zhejiang Province

In July 2019, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued the "Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Construction Drawing Review System for Housing Construction and Municipal Infrastructure Projects (Soliciting Comments) Draft)》:

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Administrative requirements that are not clearly stipulated by laws, regulations, rules and the State Council as the content of review of construction drawings shall not be included in the review;

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Except for the following three types of projects, other housing construction and municipal projects implement a self-examination and filing system: construction projects with high structural safety requirements; special construction projects that require fire protection design review according to national regulations , civil air defense projects, construction projects with separate lightning protection device design review; residential, commercial, and office buildings (including affordable housing) for sale or rental after completion.

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For construction projects that implement the self-examination and filing system, the municipal and county (city, district) construction departments must conduct a comprehensive post-inspection inspection of the construction drawings before excavation of the foundation pit;

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For construction projects that implement the self-examination and filing system, the municipal and county (city, district) construction departments must conduct a comprehensive post-inspection inspection of the construction drawings before excavation of the foundation pit;

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For housing construction projects that are not suitable for self-examination and filing, the construction drawings can be reviewed in stages for the underground and above-ground parts (bounded by the top surface of the first floor floor).