1. At present, consulting engineers is still useful. At least the qualification declaration of engineering consulting units needs enough consulting engineers as support.
2. The competent authority of the certificate is the National Development and Reform Commission. As long as the National Development and Reform Commission exists, this certificate will always be useful. If the National Development and Reform Commission is merged, it will still retain the relevant functions of government departments. As a part of pre-project decision-making, consulting engineers will get more and more attention with the improvement and development of social civilization.
There is a global organization called FIDIC. In fact, this consultation covers the whole process and all aspects of engineering construction, including consulting engineers, cost engineers and supervision engineers in China. Therefore, in the long run, the integration of consulting engineers with other professional qualifications should be the general trend. But in the short term, the status quo should be maintained.