Laws of the People's Republic of China

The Ministry of Construction

Circular of Ministry of Construction Concerning the Issue that Enterprises with Foreign Investment Apply for City Planning Service Qualification Certificate

JianGui [2003] No.94

May 9, 2003

Construction offices of provinces and autonomous regions and planning bureaus (planning commissions) of municipalities directly under the Central Government:

In order to implement the Provisions on Administration of Foreign-Invested City Planning Service Enterprises (hereinafter referred to as Provisions), it is hereby announced as follows concerning the issue that enterprises with foreign investment apply for City Planning Service Qualification Certificate:

I.

Technical equipment and work site

The enterprises with foreign investment applying for City Planning Service Qualification Certificate are supposed to meet the following requirement in terms of technical equipment and work site:

(I)

having a certain number of computers, each professional technician should have one computer.

(II)

having digital AO or scanners, AO plotting instruments, color printers with high resolution ratio;

(III)

possessing CAD or GIS software;

(IV)

the construction area of per capita work site is no less than 10 square meters.

II.

Application materials of enterprises with foreign investment

Enterprises with foreign investment should provide original application materials and two copies. Original materials will be returned to applicants after checked with copies by material receiving organs.

Professional technology proving materials refer to diplomas, technical post title certificates or certificated city planner qualification certificates of employed Chinese main land technicians; diplomas of employed foreign technicians and certifying documents issued by the competent departments of the governments of the countries or regions foreign technicians live in or industry associations, academic institutions or notary offices to prove their experiences of taking up city planning and their achievements.

Enterprise technical equipment materials refer to allocation instruction of technical equipment and purchase credence.

The application form of City Planning Service Qualification Certificate for Enterprises with Foreign Investment can be obtained from construction offices of the provinces or autonomous regions or planning bureaus (planning commissions) of municipalities directly under the Central Government where they registered in advance.

III.

The procedure of applying for City Planning Service Qualification Certificate

In order to make it easy for foreign enterprises to apply for City Planning Service Qualification Certificate and strengthen the supervision and administration to city planning activities of local foreign-invested city planning enterprises conducted by construction offices of the provinces and autonomous regions and planning bureaus (planning commissions) of municipalities directly under the Central Government, enterprises with foreign investment should submit the application materials stipulated by Article 13 of the Provisions to construction offices of the provinces and autonomous regions and planning bureaus (planning commissions) of municipalities directly under the Central Government where they registered; Construction offices of the provinces and autonomous regions and planning bureaus (planning commissions) of municipalities directly under the Central Government will submit the materials which they have checked and written comments on to Ministry of Construction within 30 days after receiving the application materials; Ministry of Construction will make the decision to approve the application or not within 30 days after receiving the checked materials. Those who meet Article 6 and Article 13 of the Provisions will be presented City Planning Service Qualification Certificate for Enterprises with Foreign Investment; those who do not meet the two articles will not be presented the certificate and will be informed the reasons. Furthermore, Ministry of Construction will inform the enterprises not be approved to State Administration for Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Commerce by letter.

Construction offices of the provinces and autonomous regions and planning bureaus (planning commissions) of municipalities directly under the Central Government should take the work of accepting the application materials of enterprises with foreign investment for City Planning Service Qualification Certificate seriously and check the materials correctly according to the requirement of the Provisions and this Circular.

IV.

Announcement on foreign-invested city planning enterprises

For the enterprises presented City Planning Service Qualification Certificate for Enterprises with Foreign Investment, the Ministry of Construction will declare their names, addresses, legal representatives and name lists of professional technicians etc in the website of Information Center of the Ministry of Construction.