The Ministry of Housing and Urban-rural Development ("MOHURD") has issued the revised Measures for the Administration of Construction Methods in Engineering Construction (the "Measures") with immediate effect.
The Measures specify the definition of construction methods and divide them into construction methods in three categories of engineering which are respectively building engineering, civil engineering, and industrial installation engineering. The Measures provide that the construction methods are divided into enterprise level, provincial (ministerial) level and national level for classified administration. In addition, enterprises are required to establish a management system for their construction methods, formulate plans for developing construction methods based on their engineering characteristics, organize periodic review of their enterprise-level construction methods and file their published enterprise-level construction methods with the authorities in charge of the administration of provincial (ministerial)-level construction methods for the record.