Jiayuguan Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau

Article 1 These Regulations are formulated pursuant to the Notice of the General Office of the CPC Gansu Provincial Committee and the General Office of the People's Government of Gansu Province on Issuing the Jiayuguan Municipal Institutional Reform Plan (Gan Ban Zi [2019] No. 24).

Article 2 The Jiayuguan Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau) is a functional department of the municipal government, operating at the deputy director-general level.

Article 3 The Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau implements the guiding principles, policies, and decisions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Provincial Party Committee, and the Municipal Party Committee concerning housing and urban-rural development. In the course of performing its duties, it upholds and strengthens the Party's centralised and unified leadership over housing and urban-rural development work. Its principal responsibilities are:

(1) Implementing national and provincial laws, regulations, and policies concerning housing security, real estate, and urban-rural construction administration. Researching and formulating relevant policies, regulations, and rules for the city's residential sector, real estate industry, affordable housing development, urban construction, engineering projects, town and village development, construction industry, survey, design, and consultancy services, municipal public utilities, building energy efficiency, and construction technology. Formulate urban development strategies, real estate development plans, medium-to-long-term programmes, reform initiatives, and relevant regulatory documents for the city, and guide their implementation.

(2) Oversee the city's residential and real estate sectors, regulate market order, and collaborate with relevant departments to draft and enforce real estate market supervision policies. Develop annual real estate development plans for the city, guide the construction of commercial housing, affordable housing, and subsidised rental housing, and oversee the paid transfer and development of urban land use rights. Collaborate with relevant departments on the arrangement of low-rent housing construction projects and funding. Oversee industry regulation and qualification management for real estate development enterprises, property management enterprises, and real estate intermediary service institutions. Manage the city's real estate market information and early warning system. Supervise low-rent housing and public housing directly managed by bureau-affiliated units. Conduct administrative law enforcement supervision within the real estate sector and enforce inspections on real estate development construction projects.

(iii) Promote housing system reform. Formulate municipal implementation opinions based on national housing reform policies, draft comprehensive supporting reform policies and plans for the city's housing system, and oversee their implementation. Guide urban housing system reform across the city, organise the implementation of housing reform for central and provincial units based in Jiaxing, approve unit housing reform policy implementation plans and property rights demarcation, and organise the distribution of city-wide housing subsidies.

(iv) Responsible for housing security for low-income urban households. Formulates and oversees the implementation of city-wide housing security policies. Investigates housing conditions of low-income households citywide, reviews and approves rental subsidy disbursements and physical allocation of subsidised rental housing. Collaborates with relevant departments to compile housing security development plans and annual schedules, overseeing their implementation. Jointly formulates city-wide subsidised rental housing funding plans with relevant departments and monitors fund utilisation. Reviews and approves eligibility criteria for purchasing affordable housing.

(v) Oversee, inspect, and guide the demolition and redevelopment of old urban neighbourhoods. Conduct safety assessments of urban housing and identify dilapidated buildings. Organise and participate in investigations and handling of major construction accidents. Regulate the housing decoration and renovation industry. Manage the construction of commercial housing, affordable housing, subsidised rental housing, and residential communities. Formulate supporting measures for property management and oversee their implementation. Administer housing censuses, property transfers, leases, mortgages, and real estate transactions.

(vi) Overseeing urban construction and village/town development. Compiling and implementing construction plans for new urban projects and renovation schemes, alongside urban management and maintenance programmes. Operating and managing municipal utilities including water supply, drainage, heating, roads, street lighting, public squares, and flood prevention/drainage systems. Directing and managing safety inspections, maintenance operations, environmental protection, coordination oversight, and petition handling for citywide utilities such as gas, water supply, drainage, and heating.

(vii) Overseeing and regulating construction activities and the construction industry citywide to standardise the construction market. Supervising market access and project management, overseeing construction enterprise qualifications, project quality, construction safety, project costs, civilised construction practices, and building materials and equipment. Collecting infrastructure development fees, supervising project quality and safety during construction phases, and investigating major quality or safety incidents. Guides the filing of completion acceptance for housing projects and municipal infrastructure projects, and the registration of non-local testing institutions.

(viii) Oversee and manage construction project survey and design work. Guide seismic design standards for construction projects and seismic retrofitting of existing buildings. Guide the development and utilisation of underground space. Guide fire safety design reviews for construction projects.

(ix) Oversee administrative law enforcement and conduct inspections of construction project compliance. Manage approvals for road occupancy and excavation. Collect and manage urban construction archives. Compile and submit annual reports for the housing and construction system.

(10) Oversee the supervision and management of the Housing Provident Fund to ensure its effective and secure utilisation. Draft city-wide development plans, contribution, usage, management, and supervision systems for the Housing Provident Fund, supervising and guiding its implementation by management bodies. Supervise the management, usage, and security of the Housing Provident Fund and other housing funds.

(11) Responsible for organising the implementation and supervision of laws and regulations including the People's Republic of China Civil Air Defence Law. Implements national civil air defence policies and directives, drafts municipal regulatory documents for civil air defence, and formulates development plans for civil air defence construction. Oversees the supervision and inspection of civil air defence construction for urban and economic targets, organises civil air defence command operations, and manages civil air defence communications and warning systems. Organise and manage civil air defence project construction, collect civil air defence co-construction fees, and organise civil air defence publicity and education. In wartime, organise and command civil air defence evacuation and sheltering, eliminate the consequences of air raids, assist relevant departments in restoring normal production and living order, and undertake other tasks assigned by the Military Sub-district and the Municipal National Defence Mobilisation Committee.

(12) Overseeing the bureau's institutional staffing, personnel and labour relations, finance, auditing, and state-owned asset management. Leading the bureau's Party and mass organisation development, guiding ideological and political work alongside spiritual civilisation initiatives. Organising professional technical title evaluations and managing construction industry practitioner qualifications, while directing staff training and continuing education programmes.

(13) Promote government information disclosure in accordance with the Regulations on Government Information Disclosure, establish and improve institutional mechanisms for administrative information disclosure, and publicly release relevant governmental information.

(14) Complete other tasks assigned by the Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Government, and Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

Article 4 The Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau shall establish the following internal departments:

(1) Organisation and Personnel Section. Responsible for Party building, Party conduct and integrity, and discipline inspection work within the department and its subordinate units; leads mass organisations such as the trade union, Communist Youth League, and Women's Federation, and guides family planning work across the bureau system. Handles cadre personnel affairs, institutional staffing, labour wages, annual assessments, cadre training, continuing education, professional title evaluations, and cadre and talent development for the bureau and its subordinate units; Manages Party discipline, administrative discipline, spiritual civilisation development, organisational affairs, publicity, and united front work; oversees and guides the management and services for retired personnel; administers relevant personnel files. Undertakes the duties of the Bureau's Party Committee and Discipline Inspection Commission.

(2) Office. Coordinates Party and administrative affairs for the Bureau, handles official correspondence and external liaison; manages external information dissemination; organises and coordinates key meetings and target management; formulates internal regulations; Responsible for reviewing and compiling housing and urban-rural development regulations; managing documentary archives; drafting, reviewing, approving, and filing important bureau documents and normative instruments; undertaking policy and regulatory reviews for the housing and urban-rural development system; managing official seals and documentary archives; formulating and implementing legal awareness campaigns, administrative law enforcement, supervision, administrative reconsideration, litigation response, and handling legal disputes within the bureau; Responsible for the development, management, and assessment of the law enforcement team; responsible for the ‘streamlining administration, delegating power, and improving services’ reform and administrative approvals within the bureau system; organising the handling of proposals from deputies to the People's Congress and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; responsible for managing the bureau's fixed assets, handling correspondence and visits, and overseeing security, confidential matters, and secrecy for subordinate public institutions; responsible for housing and urban-rural development administrative law enforcement, combating organised crime, and comprehensive social security management.

(3) Planning and Finance Section. Organises the formulation of relevant financial management systems; Guiding the compilation of annual fixed asset investment plans, fund utilisation, and material procurement for the housing and construction sector; responsible for reporting fixed asset investment statistics; comprehensively managing the allocation and use of special funds, inspecting and guiding the rational use of urban maintenance fees and other charges; supervising, auditing, and managing the financial receipts and expenditures of subordinate units; overseeing state-owned assets within the Bureau system; coordinating the establishment and approval of administrative and institutional fees within the housing and construction system; responsible for reviewing, approving, and clearing the allocation of all administrative and institutional funds; Collect all administrative, institutional, and operational fees. Manage the accounting and administration of municipal low-rent housing construction funds, rental subsidy funds, housing reform funds, and housing subsidies; strictly implement government procurement systems; oversee the accounting of all fund receipts and expenditures, ledgers, vouchers, and the preparation of financial accounting statements.

(IV) Urban and Rural Construction Management Section. Responsible for guiding and formulating strategies, medium-to-long-term plans, and regulatory documents concerning urban infrastructure development, city management, municipal services, public utilities, and town and village construction and development; responsible for compiling construction plans for new and renovation projects and city management maintenance schedules; guiding comprehensive urban development, environmental remediation, and urban construction law enforcement supervision; guiding approvals for road occupation and excavation and urban lighting projects; Manages urban flood prevention and construction statistics; researches and formulates policies, measures, and regulatory documents for village and town construction, overseeing their implementation; guides rural housing construction, safety, and dilapidated housing renovation, as well as the design and construction of village and town buildings and public infrastructure; directs and organises unified development, comprehensive construction, pilot projects, and improvements to the human habitat and ecological environment in villages and towns; guides and participates in the construction of new rural communities and beautiful villages.

(V) Construction Industry Management Section. Responsible for city-wide construction industry management; formulating development plans and industrial policies for the construction sector; exercising comprehensive supervision over city-wide construction projects in accordance with national and provincial policies, guidelines, and laws/regulations concerning engineering survey and design, project tendering, construction quality, and safety; guiding and overseeing market access for construction enterprises and the market conduct of all parties involved; responsible for construction (commencement) permit approvals and on-site civilised construction supervision; Manages the approval and supervision of construction and supervision enterprise qualifications; oversees project completion acceptance and the registration of non-local testing institutions; organises training and education for construction industry practitioners; supervises the registration and professional conduct of various construction industry practitioners; guides and participates in the supervision of investigations and handling of engineering quality and safety incidents; promotes technological advancement and the adoption of new materials in the construction sector; manages the use of construction machinery; imposes administrative penalties for violations within its remit in accordance with the law.

(6) Public Utilities Management Section. Researches and formulates citywide public utility development plans, compiles implementation schedules, and drafts regulatory documents; guides and manages the operation, ecological environment, and construction management of citywide public facilities including gas supply, water supply, drainage, and heating; oversees the approval and implementation of municipal water supply, drainage, and heating facilities, and collects urban infrastructure development fees; guides the management of underground networks such as communication pipelines. Oversees safety inspections, routine maintenance operations, environmental supervision, and administrative penalties for violations within municipal public utilities including gas, water supply, heating, and sewage collection/treatment.

(vii) Project Management Section. Manages preliminary stages of urban infrastructure projects—including project proposals, feasibility studies, preliminary designs, construction drawings, and tendering processes; handles approvals for all preliminary project phases; compiles and reports progress updates on project preparatory work; coordinates related tasks during project implementation.

(8) Real Estate Management Section. Responsible for publicising and implementing higher-level policies and regulations on real estate development operations and market regulation; drafting and formulating real estate development management policies and normative documents; Supervising and regulating development activities; managing the registration and qualification of real estate development enterprises; reviewing permits for real estate development operations, valuation services, and pre-sale of commercial properties; processing sales contract registrations, project approvals, verifications, and archiving; participating in residential estate planning reviews and comprehensive completion inspections; investigating violations of real estate development regulations; compiling and reporting market statistics; monitoring compliance with commercial property pricing; coordinating guidance on property rights, transactions, valuations, and housing administration office operations.

(9) Housing Security and Property Management Section. Responsible for implementing higher-level housing security policies, development plans, and annual programmes; formulating relevant municipal housing security policies, compiling development plans and annual programmes, and overseeing their implementation. Handling review, verification, and supervision of municipal affordable housing construction, allocation, management, exit, and sale processes. Addressing legacy issues from housing reform policies, establishing and refining housing security systems, and drafting related comprehensive documents. Responsible for formulating and implementing supporting measures and policies for property management across the city; managing the qualification approval of property management enterprises; guiding and supervising the work of owners' assemblies, owners' committees, and property management enterprises; overseeing market inspections and civilised community creation activities in property management; supervising the collection and use of maintenance funds for shared facilities and equipment; formulating property management fee standards, service contents, and standards; delineating property management service areas; mediating and resolving conflicts and disputes; managing residential interior decoration and renovation; and conducting professional qualification training for property management personnel.

Article 5 Name of Head: Wang Nanlin

Article 6 Office Contact and Telephone: Yuan Liyan 6326420

Article 7 Office Hours: 8:30–12:00 14:30–18:00

Article 8 Office Telephone: 0937-6326420

Article 9 Office Address: No. 9 Yingbin West Road.

Article 10 The Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau has an approved administrative staffing quota of 18 positions (including 3 military transfer positions), comprising: 1 Director, 3 Deputy Directors (1 concurrently serving as Director of the Municipal Civil Air Defence Office at deputy division level), and 9 section-level cadres.

Article 11 The establishment, responsibilities, and staffing matters of institutions affiliated with the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau shall be separately stipulated.

Article 12 The Municipal Party Committee Office of Institutional Organisation and Staffing shall undertake the specific interpretation of these provisions. Any adjustments thereto shall be processed by the Municipal Party Committee Office of Institutional Organisation and Staffing in accordance with prescribed procedures.

Article 13 These provisions shall come into effect on 31 March 2019.