Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development: The construction unit is responsible for the project quality.

According to the Chinese government website, on September 15, the General Office of the State Council forwarded the Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on Improving the Quality Assurance System and Improving the Quality of Construction Projects (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions) to the people's governments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government and relevant departments of the State Council.

The background of the Opinions is that in recent years, China has continuously strengthened the quality management of construction projects, and the overall quality level has steadily improved. However, due to the large amount of construction work, various quality problems still occur from time to time. In order to solve the outstanding problems faced by the quality management of construction projects, further improve the quality assurance system and continuously improve the quality of construction projects.

Highlight the primary responsibility of the construction unit

The Opinions put forward four measures to strengthen the responsibilities of all parties. Including highlighting the main responsibility of the construction unit, implementing the main responsibility of the construction unit, clarifying the main responsibility of the house use safety and fulfilling the government's project quality supervision responsibility.

Highlight the primary responsibility of the construction unit. The construction unit shall strengthen the quality management of the whole process of project construction, strictly fulfill the legal procedures and quality responsibilities, and shall not contract the project illegally. The construction unit should conscientiously implement the project legal person responsibility system to ensure reasonable construction period and expenses. The establishment of project quality information publicity system, the construction unit should take the initiative to open the project completion acceptance and other information, accept social supervision.

The "Opinions" also clarified the main responsibility for the safety of housing use. Housing owners and users should correctly use and maintain the house, and it is strictly forbidden to change the main body and load-bearing structure of the house without authorization. To strengthen the safety management of housing use, the owner of the house and the management service unit entrusted by him shall regularly check the housing safety, earnestly fulfill the obligation of housing maintenance, and effectively ensure the safety of housing use.

Guarantee the project winning the bid with the lowest price with high insurance amount.

Take six measures to improve the management system, including reforming the organizational model of project construction, improving the bidding system, promoting project guarantee and insurance, and strengthening project design and construction management.

Reform the organizational model of engineering construction. The implementation of general contracting, the implementation of the general contractor in the project quality and safety, schedule control, cost management and other aspects of responsibility. Improve the professional subcontracting system and vigorously develop professional contracting enterprises. Actively develop the whole process of engineering consulting and professional services, innovate the engineering supervision system, and strictly implement the quality responsibility of professional qualified personnel in the fields of engineering consulting (investment), survey and design, supervision and cost. Implement the architect responsibility system in civil construction projects, give architects the right to issue instructions and approve projects on behalf of the construction unit according to the contract agreement between the two parties, and clarify the responsibilities that architects should bear.

Improve the bidding system. Improve the decision-making mechanism of the tenderer, further implement the autonomy of the tenderer, and explore the establishment of an institutional mechanism that can better meet the needs of the project in the process of bid evaluation and calibration. Simplify bidding procedures, implement electronic bidding and remote bid evaluation in different places, and strictly manage bid evaluation experts. Strengthen the traceability of the main responsibility of bidding and expand the standardized application of credit information in the bidding process. Severely crack down on illegal activities such as collusive bidding and false bidding, and strengthen the supervision of contract performance after bidding.

Carry out engineering guarantee and insurance. Carry out the bank guarantee system, and carry out the project guarantee company guarantee and project guarantee insurance in qualified areas. If the tenderer requires the winning bidder to provide performance guarantee, the tenderer shall also provide the winning bidder with the guarantee for payment of project funds. The exploration of winning the bid at the lowest price and the guarantee of high performance are carried out. Organize pilot projects of engineering quality insurance to accelerate the development of engineering quality insurance.