Consulting engineer, registered consulting engineer (investment), refers to the professional and technical personnel who have passed the national unified examination and obtained the Qualification Certificate of People's Republic of China (PRC) Registered Consulting Engineer (investment) and engaged in engineering consulting business in the field of economic construction after registration. So what's the difference between a cost engineer and a consulting engineer?
The difference between cost engineer and consulting engineer
Cost engineer refers to the engineering economic professionals who are qualified by the state, licensed to practice after registration, specially appointed, entrusted or hired by a department or unit, responsible for and assisting them in the valuation, pricing and management of engineering cost, so as to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. The state implements the qualification system of cost engineers in the field of project cost. Units and departments engaged in the construction, design, construction, project cost consultation and project cost management of engineering construction activities must be equipped with professional and technical personnel with the qualification of cost engineers in the positions of valuation, evaluation, audit (nuclear), control and management.
1996 according to the notice of the Ministry of personnel and the Ministry of construction on printing and distributing the interim provisions on the qualification system of cost engineers (No.77 [1996]), the state began to implement the qualification system of cost engineers. 1998 1, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Construction issued the Notice of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Construction on Relevant Issues Concerning the Implementation of the Qualification Examination for Cost Engineers (No.Zi Zi Fa [1998]8), and the qualification examination for cost engineers was first implemented in China that year. The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Construction are jointly responsible for the examination. The personnel department is responsible for examining and approving the examination syllabus, examination subjects and examination questions, and organizing or authorizing the implementation of various examinations. In conjunction with the Ministry of Construction, supervise, inspect, guide and determine the examination standards. The daily work is undertaken by the Standard and Quota Department of the Ministry of Construction, and the specific examination work is entrusted to the Personnel Testing Center of the Ministry of Personnel to organize and implement.
The national cost engineer qualification examination is organized by the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Personnel. The exam is held once a year. The qualification examination for cost engineers adopts the methods of unified outline, unified proposition and unified organization. In principle, it is held once a year, and in principle, only test sites are set up in provincial capital cities. The examination adopts rolling management, which consists of five subjects, and the rolling cycle of a single subject is 2 years.
Registered consulting engineer (investment) refers to the professional and technical personnel who have obtained the Qualification Certificate of People's Republic of China (PRC) Registered Consulting Engineer (investment) through examination and engaged in engineering consulting business in the field of economic construction after registration. The Personnel Department of Registered Consulting Engineer (Investment) and the National Development and Reform Commission are jointly responsible for the policy formulation, organization, coordination, supervision and guidance of the national registered consulting engineer (investment) qualification system, and set up a national registered consulting engineer (investment) qualification management committee to be responsible for the qualification management of registered consulting engineers (investment). The office of the Committee is located in China Engineering Consulting Association.
The qualification of registered consulting engineer (investment) shall be subject to a unified national examination system, which shall be held once a year in principle.
The professional qualifications of national professional and technical personnel in key positions in the engineering consulting industry shall be brought into the unified management of the national professional and technical personnel professional qualification system. This exam is a special exam for this purpose. Only by passing this exam, it shows that it has the corresponding level and ability, and can it obtain the qualification of engineering consulting industry. This qualification is valid nationwide.
Registered consulting engineer (investment) can practice in the following fields:
(1) Economic and social development planning and planning consultation;
(2) industry development planning and industrial policy consultation;
(3) Special consultation on economic construction;
(4) opportunity research;
(5) Preparation of project proposal;
(six) the preparation of the project feasibility study report;
(7) Project evaluation;
(8) Project financing consulting, comprehensive performance evaluation, post-evaluation and training consulting services;
(9) Technical consultation on project bidding;
(10) Other engineering consulting services specified by the State Planning Commission.
Extended reading:
1. Local enterprises invest in projects approved by the National Development and Reform Commission and the industry management department of the State Council respectively. After the development and reform department and the industry management department of the provincial government where the project is located put forward preliminary opinions, they will submit project application reports to the National Development and Reform Commission and the industry management department of the State Council respectively.
2 belongs to the national development and Reform Commission approval authority of the project, the project is located in the provincial government regulations by the provincial government industry management department of first instance, by the provincial government development and reform department and jointly submitted.
3. The investment and construction of units affiliated to relevant departments in the State Council, enterprise groups with separate plans and centrally managed enterprises shall be examined and approved by the National Development and Reform Commission and the industry management department in the State Council respectively. Relevant departments in the State Council, enterprise groups with separate plans and centrally managed enterprises shall submit project application reports to the National Development and Reform Commission and the industry management department in the State Council respectively, and attach the opinions of the development and reform department and industry management department of the provincial government where the project is located.
4. For projects that may have a significant impact on public interests, the project approval authority shall take appropriate measures to solicit public opinions. For particularly important projects, an expert review system can be implemented.
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