Jing Jian Fa [2020] No. 10

To all departments concerned,

In order to further deepen the reform of delegating powers, improving regulation, and optimizing services; continuously optimize the business environment of Beijing Municipality; and facilitate the reform and innovation of joint final inspection of housing construction and municipal infrastructure projects, Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and nine other municipal departments have formulated the Interim Procedures of Beijing Municipality for Administration of Joint Final Inspection of Housing Construction and Municipal Infrastructure Projects in accordance with the Implementation Opinions on Full-Scale Launch of Reform of the System of Review and Approval of Engineering Construction Projects (Guo Ban Fa [2019] No. 11), Regulations on Optimizing the Business Environment, Regulations on Urban and Rural Planning of Beijing, and Regulations of Beijing Municipality on Optimizing the Business Environment. The Interim Procedures are hereby printed and distributed for implementation.

Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development

Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources

Beijing Municipal Civil Air Defense Office

Beijing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation

Beijing Water Authority

Beijing Municipal Archives

Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport

Beijing Municipal Commission of City Management

Beijing Communications Administration

Beijing Municipal Administration of Government Services

November 18, 2020

Interim Procedures of Beijing Municipality for Administration of Joint Final Inspection of Housing Construction and Municipal Infrastructure Projects

Chapter I. General Provisions

Article 1. In order to further optimize the business environment of Beijing Municipality, deepen the reform of joint final inspection of housing construction and municipal infrastructure projects, and carry out the Implementation Opinions on Comprehensive Reform of the System of Review and Approval of Engineering Construction Projects (Guo Ban Fa [2019] No. 11), Regulations on Urban and Rural Planning of Beijing, and Regulation of Beijing Municipality on Optimizing the Business Environment, the Interim Procedures are hereby formulated based on the actual conditions in Beijing.

Article 2. The joint final inspection of new, rebuilt, or expanded housing construction projects (including decoration projects) and municipal infrastructure projects (excluding rail transit projects, underground pipeline projects, energy projects, and confidential projects) within the administrative area of Beijing Municipality (hereinafter referred to as “joint inspection”), shall be governed by these procedures.

The joint inspection shall be implemented in accordance with the comprehensive risk level of the construction project. The comprehensive risk levels of construction projects are divided into low risk, moderate risk, high risk, and major risk. In principle, joint inspection shall be implemented for construction projects with low risk and moderate risk; construction projects with high risk are encouraged to implement joint inspection, provided that the projects meet inspection conditions and the risks are controllable; construction projects with major risk are advised against implementing joint inspection. The comprehensive risk levels of construction projects are shown in the Appendixes.

Article 3. For the purpose of these procedures, “joint inspection” refers to the work model according to which the project owner submits an application; the competent departments of housing and urban-rural construction, planning and natural resources, civil air defense, market regulation, water affairs, archives, transportation, urban management, and communications streamline, optimize, and make concerted efforts to advance administrative matters concerning final inspection, and supervise and coordinate municipal service companies to actively provide municipal utilities such as water supply, drainage, power supply, gas, heat, and communications to complete project acceptance in a standardized, efficient, and convenient manner and facilitate the timely delivery of the construction project.

Article 4. The joint inspection shall follow the working principles of "standardization, coordination, sharing, efficiency and convenience" to achieve the goal of "one application, one notification, one commitment, integrated inspections, unified opinions, and timely processing". No fees shall be charged for joint inspection.

Article 5. The municipal (district) commission of housing and urban-rural development shall, in accordance with the Regulations on Urban and Rural Planning of Beijing, organize joint inspection within their respective jurisdictions, use the special seal for the joint inspection of municipal (district) construction projects, and summarize the opinions of relevant competent departments to issue joint inspection opinions. Other matters may not be included in the joint inspection unless they are approved by Beijing Municipal People’s Government.

Article 6. The competent department of housing and urban-rural development shall be responsible for the overall planning, organization, and coordination of joint inspection, along with the final inspection supervision, fire protection acceptance, real estate surveying, and mapping results review.

The competent department of planning and natural resources shall be responsible for the acceptance of construction project planning and urban construction archives.

The competent department of civil air defense shall be responsible for the supervision of the final inspection of civil air defense projects.

The competent department of market supervision shall be responsible for the registration of the use of special equipment for construction projects.

The competent department of water affairs shall be responsible for supervising, coordinating, and guiding municipal service enterprises such as water supply and drainage in the provision of municipal utilities.

The competent department of city management shall be responsible for supervising, coordinating, and guiding municipal service enterprises in the provision of municipal utilities such as gas, heating, and power supply.

The competent archives department shall be responsible for supervising and guiding the acceptance of archives for major construction projects with fixed-asset government investment.

The competent commissions of transport shall be responsible for guiding the acceptance of supporting parking facilities.

The competent communications department shall be responsible for supervising, coordinating, and guiding communications and other municipal service enterprises in the provision of municipal utilities.

Municipal service enterprises shall be responsible for the access, connectivity, and operation services of supporting municipal public facilities such as water supply, drainage, power supply, gas, heating, and communications within their respective scope.

Article 7. This city relies on the Beijing Online Approval and Supervision Platform for Investment Project (hereinafter referred to as the “Online Platform”) to establish a unified Beijing Construction Project Joint Final Inspection Service Platform (hereinafter referred to as the “Joint Inspection Platform”), strengthen sharing and exchange of data and information on the relevant information platforms of various competent departments and municipal service enterprises, support inter-departmental operational collaboration, and facilitate the seamless connection of the entire joint inspection process.

The competent department of housing and urban-rural construction shall be responsible for the construction, management, and maintenance of the Joint Inspection Platform.

Article 8. The comprehensive notification commitment system is implemented in a joint inspection model. The competent department of housing and urban-rural construction shall integrate the content of notifications and commitments required by various competent departments, formulate a letter of notification and commitment for comprehensive notification, specify the specific construction requirements, application materials, acceptance procedures, acceptance standards, and others in a single instance, and clarify the content that the project owner needs to warrant.

When applying for joint inspection, the project owner shall warrant in writing (including electronic text) that it has completed the construction tasks as required, meets the conditions, standards, and requirements outlined in the letter of notification and commitment, and is willing to assume the corresponding responsibilities for breach of commitment. The letter of notification and commitment shall be signed and sealed by the legal representative or the authorized representative of the project owner.

Article 9. All competent departments and municipal service enterprises should strengthen information sharing, keep abreast of the progress and conditions of construction projects promptly, provide advance and proactive services, effectively strengthen the management of the entire joint inspection process, and share supervision data with relevant competent departments.

Chapter II. Strengthening Quality and Safety Supervision of Construction Projects

Article 10. The quality and safety of construction projects in Beijing shall be subject to differentiated management in accordance with the comprehensive risk level of the project.

Before the commencement of construction of a project, the project owner shall clarify its comprehensive risk level and share this information with various competent authorities through the online platform. During construction of the project, the project owner, survey entity, design entity, builder, and supervision companies shall establish a sound risk management and control mechanism, formulate a working system, clarify the subjects of responsibility, comprehensively and systematically identify the quality and safety risks of each stage and procedure, and adopt measures to effectively control risks and ensure the quality and safety of the construction project.

The project owner, construction company, and supervision company shall regularly inspect the quality and safety risks of each stage and procedure, evaluate the risk management and control situation, and report the inspection and evaluation results to Beijing's unified risk management and control platform.

Article 11. During the construction of the project, the competent department of housing and urban-rural development shall conduct quality and safety supervision. For low-risk construction projects, the project quality and safety supervisor shall cancel the first meeting to report work quality and safety, and inspection shall be carried out only once during construction with an inspection time of at most one day. For projects with moderate risk, at least one spot check shall be conducted every three months; for projects with high risk, major risk, or poor-risk control, the frequency of supervision and inspection shall be appropriately increased in accordance with project progress.

If any entity participating in the construction of the project fails to implement risk level management and control in accordance with regulations, has any quality and safety incident, or is found to have broken any of their commitments, the competent department of housing and urban-rural development shall increase the number of random inspections and strengthen in-process and ex post supervision.

Article 12. The joint inspection system shall be established. Any competent department may propose joint inspection to the competent department of housing and urban-rural development, which may then decide to organize the joint inspection. After the joint inspection is completed, each competent department shall separately present a written inspection record and actively disclose the examination results to the public.

Chapter III. Joint Inspection Procedures

Article 13. Before the project owner applies for the planning permit, the Joint Inspection Platform shall first complete the project planning consultation, then post the comprehensive notification and commitment letter and joint opinions to the project owner. The project owner may login to the Joint Inspection Platform to download the comprehensive notification and commitment letter.

Article 14. After the comprehensive review of the project construction drawing has passed, the joint review platform of the competent department of planning and natural resources shall push the digital documents of the project construction drawing to the relevant competent departments and to the Joint Inspection Platform via the Online Platform. The relevant competent departments shall carry out proactive services in advance for relevant administrative matters under their respective departments based on construction drawing document.

Article 15. When processing construction permit procedures, the project owner may propose joint inspection based on the comprehensive risk level of the project; after the completion of the project, the project owner may decide whether to implement joint inspection based on the comprehensive risk level of the project.

With respect to a project subject to joint inspection, the project owner shall submit an application within 5 working days after the acceptance inspection of the project or qualified self-inspection. With respect to a project not subject to joint inspection, the project owner shall organize final inspection in accordance with relevant provisions, and relevant competent departments shall conduct acceptance inspection independently in accordance with the law.

Article 16. The project owner shall submit a final inspection report (comprehensive) after it completes the construction task, confirms that the quality of the project meets the relevant laws and regulations, mandatory construction standards, design documents and contract requirements, and organizes the participating entities to complete final inspection or self-inspection. The final inspection report (comprehensive) shall include the following primary content (excluding unrelated acceptance matters):

i.    Final inspection status (including fire protection inspection status);

ii.   Status of final inspection of civil air defense projects (including the payment of fees for relocation of air raid shelters);

iii.   Implementation status of matters related to planning permits;

iv.  Final inspection status of water supply, drainage, power supply, gas, heating, and communication works (hereinafter referred to as “small-scale municipal works”);

v.    Final inspection status of parking facilities; and

vi.    Collection, sorting, summarization, and self-inspection of project archives.

Article 17. The project owner may fill out the joint inspection application form through the online platform, select the acceptance items involved in the project, upload the comprehensive notification and commitment letter, final inspection report (comprehensive), project completion construction drawing, and other materials, and submit the joint inspection application or deliver relevant materials to the municipal or district government service center for on-site application.

Article 18. After the project owner submits the joint inspection application through the online platform and the application is accepted, the platform shall transmit the application information and materials involved in the project to the Joint Inspection Platform in real time.

Article 19. Within 15 days from the date of acceptance of the application for joint inspection, the competent department of housing and urban-rural development shall organize relevant competent departments to complete on-site acceptance and issue an acceptance opinion. The specific time for on-site acceptance shall be determined by the competent department of housing and urban-rural development in consultation with the project owner, and feedback to the competent departments participating in the on-site acceptance shall be conveyed through the Joint Inspection Platform.

The on-site acceptance shall be completed within 1 day for projects with low risks, 3 days for projects with moderate risks, and 7 days for projects with high or major risks.

Article 20. If all the acceptance opinions are “pass”, the result of the joint inspection is "pass". The Joint Inspection Platform shall generate a joint inspection notice that the project owner can download and print through the online platform. If any of the acceptance opinions is “failure”, the result of the joint inspection is  "failure", the Joint Inspection Platform shall generate a joint inspection failure notice, and the competent municipal (district) department of housing and urban-rural development shall provide feedback to the project owner through direct communication.

The competent municipal (district) department of housing and urban-rural development shall affix the special seal for municipal (district) project joint inspection in the joint inspection notice, which shall serve as a unified confirmation document for the joint inspection. Beijing promotes the use of the joint inspection electronic seal, which has the same legal effect as the physical seal. Joint inspection notices affixed with the electronic seal are considered legal and valid.

Article 21. If a project fails the joint inspection, the relevant competent departments shall order corrections for the violations found, and notify the project owner of the matters requiring rectification in the same instance. If the project owner completes the rectification within 7 days, they can apply for an on-site review after the rectification. If after the on-site review, the requirements are still not met, the project owner shall reorganize the final inspection of the project, and reapply for joint inspection or independently implement various inspections and acceptances. The time of rectification and review may not be included in the 15-day period.

Article 22. No project subject to joint inspection may be delivered before passing the joint inspection. The joint inspection notice shall replace the final inspection filing form, and the final inspection filing is deemed to have been completed after passing the joint inspection.

The builder’s warranty period for the project owner’s project quality shall be calculated from the date of passing the final inspection organized by the project owner. The project owner’s warranty period for the owner shall be calculated from the date of delivery of the project.

Chapter IV. Primary Content of Joint Inspection

Article 23. The competent departments of housing and urban-rural development and civil air defense shall carry out the final inspection of the project (including fire inspection) and final inspection of civil air defense projects in accordance with their responsibilities, including supervising the organization form of the final inspection, acceptance procedures, whether the implementation of the acceptance standard is in compliance with relevant regulations, conducting random examinations of filing materials for final inspection, conducting fire protection acceptance of special construction projects, and conducting random examinations of fire protection acceptance filing in accordance with regulations, formulation of project (civil air defense works) quality supervision reports, fire protection acceptance, or the filing of random examination records respectively.

Article 24. If the competent department of planning and natural resources decides to participate in the on-site acceptance, it shall conduct spot checks on the implementation of planning permit items and the self-inspection of project completion archives; if it does not participate in the on-site acceptance, it shall instead issue planning acceptance opinions and archive acceptance opinions within the specified time limit.

Article 25. After the inspection agency completes the special equipment installation supervision and examination, it shall push the basic and examination-related information of the special equipment to the administration for market regulation. When registering for the use of special equipment, users no longer need to fill in information such as the basic and examination conditions of the special equipment.

After the special equipment utilization registration is completed, if the administration of market regulaton decides to participate in the on-site acceptance, it shall verify whether the quantity, nameplate, and others of the special equipment are consistent with the information written on the special equipment utilization registration form; if it decides not to participate in the on-site acceptance, it shall issue the special equipment acceptance opinion within the specified time limit.

Article 26. If the competent municipal (district) department of transport (parking management department) participates in the on-site acceptance, it shall conduct a random check on the acceptance of the parking facility by the project owner; if it does not participate in the on-site acceptance, it shall issue the parking facility acceptance opinion within the specified time limit.

Article 27. The competent authority of water affairs shall cancel the on-site final inspection of supporting water conservation facilities, which shall be subject to the notification and commitment system.

Article 28. The scope of review of real estate surveying and mapping results shall be optimized. The project owner may at its discretion, select a surveying and mapping entity or consortium that meets the requirements to undertake a final inspection of the comprehensive surveying and mapping work. For construction projects that require simultaneous review of real estate surveying and mapping results, the results submitted for review should be used as the basic data of the relevant acceptance items. The competent department of housing and urban-rural development shall no longer review the licensing content or technical indicators involved in the relevant acceptance items.

Article 29. The archive acceptance of major construction projects shall be integrated into the acceptance of urban construction archives. For the joint inspection of major construction projects involving fixed-asset government investment, the competent department of planning and natural resources shall notify the archives administration to implement archive acceptance, and the competent department of planning and natural resources shall clarify the archive acceptance opinions.

Article 30. In the process of project construction, if it is necessary to approve relevant technical indicators through examination, testing, surveying. and mapping in accordance with technical standards and specifications, including planning verification, fire protection facility testing, and special equipment supervision and examination, the project owner shall in accordance with relevant regulations, promptly entrust an organization with corresponding qualifications to complete the technical approval work.

Chapter V. Municipal Utilities

Article 31. When applying for a planning permit, the project owner may fill in the municipal access service requirements in the planning permit application form. Municipal service enterprises shall proactively carry out services such as consulting on implementation plans, consulting on design construction drawing, and on-site surveys in advance.

Article 32. After the project owner obtains the planning permit, the municipal service enterprises shall actively provide municipal access services in accordance with the requirements in a simultaneous manner, guide and assist the project owner in completing the construction and acceptance of small-scale municipal works, and ensure that they meet the conditions for municipal access.

Article 33. After the project owner completes the construction of small-scale municipal works, the municipal service enterprises shall complete the access and connection of supporting municipal public facilities such as water supply, drainage, and power supply before the project owner organizes final inspection or self-inspection. The project owner shall, within 15 working days after passing the final inspection of the project, make the supporting municipal public facilities such as gas, heating, and communication ready for connection. 

Article 34. After the construction project passes the joint inspection, the municipal service enterprises shall provide operation services promptly. For residential projects, municipal service enterprises shall provide users with water supply, drainage, power supply, gas, heating, and communication services promptly to ensure normal use.

Chapter VI. Strengthening In-process and Ex post Supervision over Joint Inspection

Article 35. All competent departments shall, in accordance with their respective responsibilities, intensify the supervision of joint inspection, and investigate and deal with violations of existing laws, regulations, standards, and regulations by participating entities and related personnel in accordance with the law.

Article 36. All competent departments shall strengthen credit supervision and conduct random checks on the commitments of the builder. If the project owner is found to have failed to fulfill its commitments, the relevant competent department shall order the project owner to make rectification within a prescribed time limit, and increase the frequency and quantity of inspections of the constructions in progress and new construction projects; In serious cases, joint sanctions for dishonesty shall be implemented in areas such as qualifications, bidding, tender invitation, and financial credit.

Article 37. Beijing adopts the method of government procurement of services and entrusts a third-party agency to regularly evaluate joint inspection work and user satisfaction.

Article 38. Beijing has established a joint inspection work assessment mechanism, the results of which are included in the municipal performance assessment.

Article 39. Beijing promotes the disclosure of joint inspection information. After the joint inspection of a construction project is passed, the competent department of housing and urban-rural development shall proactively disclose the opinions on the joint inspection of the project. Before the project is delivered, the project owner shall proactively disclose relevant information about the joint inspection of the project and accept social supervision.

Article 40. The project owner shall be responsible for the quality of the construction project in accordance with the law. Relevant competent departments shall bear corresponding legal responsibilities for their respective acceptance opinions. If any citizen, legal entity, or other organization believes that the acceptance opinion infringes on their lawful rights and interests, they may file a request to a higher-level competent department that issued the opinion or the people's government at the same level for administrative reconsideration. Those who are dissatisfied with the administrative reconsideration decision may file a lawsuit in the competent people's court; a lawsuit in the competent people's court may also be filed directly.

Chapter VII. Supplementary Provisions

Article 41. The competent departments may formulate relevant implementation procedures or rules in accordance with these Procedures.

Article 42. These Procedures shall come into effect on December 30, 2020. The Interim Measures of Beijing Municipality for Joint Inspection Acceptance of Social Investment Construction Projects (Jing Jian Fa [2018] No. 118) and the Regulations on the Implementation Rules for Beijing Construction Project Joint Completion Acceptance (Trial) (Jing Jian Fa [2018] No. 481) shall be repealed simultaneously.