Completion acceptance in batches, with reduced steps for construction approval

This article is reproduced from: Xingtai Daily

Our city continues to deepen reforms in the field of infrastructure project construction

Final acceptance inspections in batches; reduce approval steps for starting work

In a report to follow (reporter Xie Xiaoling, staff member Tang Yue and Zhang Fenghua), since this year, focusing on the pain points and difficulties faced by enterprises, our city has continued to deepen reforms in the field of infrastructure project construction. By expanding the scope of phased final acceptance inspections and implementing an “one thing” integrated handling for project start approvals, we have accelerated the entire chain of approval and inspection, improving both speed and efficiency, and empowering project construction to move at a faster pace.

“This reform shortens the inspection cycle, enables acceptance to be conducted in batches, effectively improves the efficiency of funds recoupment, and eases our financial pressure.” Recently, Han Guojun, the person in charge of the Tangyue Community project in Xiangdu District, said that thanks to the phased final acceptance policy, the project has already completed final acceptance for 10 buildings and obtained real estate ownership certificates, saving more than one month compared with the traditional acceptance model.

“Phased final acceptance inspections have fundamentally changed the limitation of the traditional model that applications for acceptance could only be made after the entire project is completed.” Wang Hui, director of the Quality Service Center of the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, explained that for projects that hold a construction project planning permit but include multiple unit works, provided that quality and safety are ensured and that each unit work has independent use functions (including water, electricity, gas, heating, fire protection, etc.), separate final acceptance inspections are allowed for unit works that have reached the required functional standards.

On this basis, our city has actively optimized the final acceptance inspection process. We have expanded the applicability of phased final acceptance inspections from the single category of public construction projects to multiple areas including industrial, technology R&D, building/real-estate-led development, commercial complexes, schools, hospitals, and more. We have established a full-cycle, full-process service mechanism. During the design stage, relevant departments will be involved early; during project construction, regular on-site service visits are conducted to coordinate and resolve difficulties in a timely manner, maximizing efforts to get engineering projects put into use and see results earlier. As of now, our city has a total of 21 projects benefiting 128 unit works.

Improving the quality and efficiency of the project construction acceptance phase has also led to the “fast-forward” button being pressed simultaneously for the project start approval phase. The Municipal Administrative Examination and Approval Bureau is actively promoting the “one thing” integrated handling for starting construction projects. It consolidates seven approval items, including the issuance of construction engineering construction permits, fire design review, and the办理 of quality and safety supervision procedures. It breaks down departmental barriers and changes approval from sequential handling to parallel handling, greatly improving approval efficiency. Qiu Yanfeng, head of the Second Approval Division at the Municipal Administrative Examination and Approval Bureau, told reporters that both the Hebei Government Services web portal and the Project Approval and Management System for Engineering Construction have set up a service section for the “one thing” integrated handling for project start approvals. Enterprises only need to log in to one platform and submit one set of materials; the system then automatically distributes the information to each approval department. Since implementation in May 2025, more than 260 construction projects across the city have completed approvals using this approach. The total statutory approval time, originally 55 working days, has been compressed to within 5 working days. The number of times enterprises need to make trips for administrative matters has been reduced from an average of 14 to within 3. The number of materials submitted has been reduced by 30%, saving approximately 200,000 yuan in both administrative handling costs and construction costs.