Recently, the General Office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development ("MOHURD") has distributed the Circular on Further Strengthening the Safety Management for Partitioned and Sub-divisional Projects with Certain Dangers.
The Circular clearly states that a construction entity shall provide real and accurate materials on the engineering geology and the hydrogeology as well as other relevant materials on the surrounding environment close to a project, guarantee the construction duration and expenditures for a rather hazardous project, and submit an inventory of rather hazardous projects and safety management measures while going through formalities for the project safety supervision; a reconnaissance unit shall state potential engineering risks caused by geological conditions in the reconnaissance documents; a unit designing a project is required to enumerate all possible rather dangerous projects in the design documents, and set out technical measures to guarantee the safety; the construction entity should identify any tremendously dangerous project before the construction has commenced, and prepare special plans for such projects with tremendous dangers; and the supervision unit should include such rather hazardous projects into the supervision plan and the implementing rules for supervision. Moreover, the Circular calls for tightening the safety management and control procedures for tremendously dangerous projects, intensifying the responsibilities for the management and control of such projects, and severely cracking down upon acts breaking rules on the safety or rather dangerous projects.