On February 27th, tThe Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development held a press conference. Yi Jun, vice Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said the construction industry is a pillar industry of China's national economy when he explained "Opinions on promoting the sustained and healthy development of the construction industry" issued by the General Office of the State Council.

Under the correct leadership of the CPC Central Committee and The State Council, after more than 30 years of reform and development, the construction capacity of the construction industry has been continuously enhanced, and the industrial scale has been continuously expanded. By 2016, the total output value of the national construction industry reached 19.35 trillion yuan, and the added value of the construction industry reached 4.95 trillion yuan, accounting for 6.66% of the GDP.

The construction industry has also absorbed a large number of rural migrant labor force, accounting for more than one-fifth of the total number of rural migrant workers in cities, and has driven the development of more than 50 related industries, making important contributions to economic and social development, urban and rural construction and the improvement of people's livelihood.

However, we should also see that the construction industry is still "big but not strong", the supervision system and mechanism is not sound, the engineering construction organization is backward, the level of architectural design needs to be improved, quality and safety accidents occur from time to time, the market illegal behavior, the core competitiveness of enterprises is not strong, low skills and quality of workers and other problems are more prominent. These problems have seriously affected the sustainable and healthy development of the construction industry. 

The party central committee and the State Council attaches great importance to the construction reform and development, to solve the problems, the State Council general office issued "About promoting the sustainable and healthy development of construction opinions" (state [2017] no. 19), This is the top design of the reform and development of construction industry, from deepening the reform of the construction and decentralization, improve the engineering construction organization mode, strengthen engineering quality and safety management, optimize the construction market environment, improve the staff quality, promoting the modernization of the construction industry, accelerate the construction enterprise "going out" seven aspects put forward 20 measures, is of great significance to promote the sustainable and healthy development of construction industry.

The above measures are mainly based on the following reform ideas:

Supply-side structural reform will be the main line

Constantly improve the quality and safety level of the project, to provide the people with high-quality, safe, beautiful, green building products. Over the past 30 years and more since reform and opening up, people's demand for housing has increased from housing to livable, livable and beautiful. The construction industry should constantly improve the quality of the project to meet the needs of the people. The basis of improving the quality of projects is to implement the main responsibility and strengthen the government supervision. To implement the main responsibility is to ensure that the responsibility of all parties involved in the construction can be traced for life, and that the responsibility can be transformed into the internal motivation of all parties involved in the construction. To ensure the implementation of responsibility, we must strengthen government supervision. in accordance with the requirements of "two random and one open", clarify the focus of supervision, strengthen team building, innovate supervision methods, and ensure that the government implements effective supervision over the quality and safety of projects. High-level technical standard is the guarantee of the realization of high-quality engineering quality, to standard the international advanced standards, and constantly improve and moderately improve China's engineering construction standards.

We will deepen the reform of delegating power, delegating power, and providing services

We will accelerate the improvement of systems and mechanisms to create a construction market environment that meets the needs of the development of the construction industry. The key to developing the socialist market economy, giving full play to the decisive role of the market in allocating resources and better playing the role of the government is to balance the relationship between the market and the government. On the one hand, we should reduce the direct government intervention in market economic activities, reform the construction market access system, weaken the enterprise qualification, reduce the scope of project bidding, let the construction unit decide the contract method, and eliminate various market barriers hindering the free flow of enterprises and fair competition. On the other hand, it is necessary to continuously improve the market mechanism, implement the internationally accepted system of winning the lowest price, contractor performance guarantee and owner payment guarantee, and restrain the performance behavior of both parties by economic means; make the full use of information means to speed up the construction of credit system, and build the market credit environment of "reward for promise and punishment for dishonesty".

Improve the quality of construction workers as the basis

We will promote mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and cultivate workers in the modern construction industry. More than 50 million migrant workers are the cornerstones of the survival and development of the construction industry, and the reform and development of the construction industry must benefit them. Only by first solving the ownership problem of migrant workers and reducing their mobility can the legitimate rights and interests of workers be protected, skill training and skill appraisal be effectively carried out, and the skill level of workers can be improved, which is the basic condition for improving the quality of workers. Therefore, it is necessary to vigorously develop professional enterprises focusing on operation, make them become the main carrier of workers, and realize the corporate management of construction workers. On this basis, we will promote real-name management, implement the labor contract system, standardize wage payment, carry out skill training and appraisal, and promote the transformation of migrant workers in the construction industry into skilled workers.

Accelerating the upgrading of the construction industry as the core

Change the construction mode and enhance the international competitiveness of China's construction industry. Led by innovation, promoting the upgrading of traditional production modes in the construction industry is not only scientific and technological innovation, but also includes the innovation of management, mode, brand and other elements. To carry out project general contracting and whole process consulting services, promote management innovation, is conducive to improve the project quality, improve the cost control, improve the efficiency of project construction organization, better balance the whole process or the whole life cycle of the construction project, to achieve the overall optimization. To promote intelligent and prefabricated buildings, promote the innovation of construction methods, and realize standardized design, factory production, assembly construction, integrated decoration, information management, and intelligent application. To strengthen technology research and development and application, promote technological innovation, vigorously promote building information model (BIM) technology, and greatly increase the contribution rate of technological innovation to industrial development. In order to improve the level of architectural design and accelerate the "going global" of the construction industry, promote brand innovation, cultivate internationally competitive architectural design team and construction enterprises, enhance the external contracting ability, and build the "Built in China" brand.

“The Opinions” fully reflect the concept of taking the marketization and internationalization as the direction, and is a programmatic document for the reform and development of the construction industry in a period of time in the future.

In the next step, we should follow the principle of "establishing first, not breaking, pilot first, model lead the way", improve the working mechanism, clarify the division of tasks, improve relevant policies, and steadily advance to ensure that the reform tasks are completed on time.