The Nineteenth National Congress and the New Era of Engineering Cost Consulting Industry

2019-09-04

Yesterday, the Nineteenth National Congress opened. This congress, which concerns China's national economy, people's livelihood and development path, not only touched the hearts of the Chinese people, but also affected the development trend of industries and enterprises. The same is true for engineering cost consulting industry. As a high-frequency term of the nineteenth National Congress, "New Age" is also applicable to this industry. Engineering cost has grown from the barbaric growth of extensive development at the beginning to the standardization of industry enterprises. In the future, it will also "strengthen" and "go out" with the advent of the new era. To meet more domestic and international service needs.

Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, according to the principle of "market decision", the government, enterprises and practitioners have made concerted efforts to promote reform: improving top-level design, improving cost management system, and developing cost consultation team. Breakthroughs have been made in many work. Especially in the past two years, no matter in the construction industry, real estate industry or cost consulting industry, changes have been taking place, changing and optimizing industry norms day by day, so that excellent enterprises can have a more convenient and favorable development environment.


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Top-level reform and standardization of industries

According to incomplete statistics of Haitian Xiaobian, from 2014 to now, the Ministry of Housing and Construction has issued 12 important documents on the construction cost consulting industry, including the Guiding Opinions on Further Promoting the Reform of Construction Cost Management in September 2014, the Work Task Division Scheme for the Reform of Construction Cost Management in November 2014, and the Guan Dynasty in April 2015. Notice on Matters Relevant to Qualification Audit of Grade A Cost Consulting Enterprises, Decision on Revising the Management Method of Cost Consulting Enterprises (Draft for Consulting Opinions) in January 2016, Notice on Simplifying Qualification Declaration Materials of Cost Consulting Enterprises in July 2017, and "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" in August for the Development of Cost Cause Planning, September "Opinions on Strengthening and Improving the Supervision of Engineering Cost" and so on.

Among them, the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" for the Development of Engineering Cost was officially issued, which put forward the development concept of "embodying innovation, coordination, green, open and sharing" and the "applicable, economic, green and aesthetic" architectural policy. It is also in line with the new era "people's growing need for a better life" put forward by the Nineteenth National Congress of the People's Congress. ” It comes down in one continuous line.

In addition, in January 2017, the General Office of the State Council issued the Circular on the Issue of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for Market Supervision", a document of nearly 30,000 words in five chapters, "emphasizing the importance of maintaining a unified national market, fair competition in the market and the rights and interests of consumers, and of maintaining market order and market environment." Comprehensive supervision will provide a clear framework for market supervision, a clear signal and a stable expectation for the broad market participants, and form a market supervision pattern of comprehensive supervision and professional supervision in the industry, social coordination, division of labor and cooperation, complementary advantages and mutual promotion.

Then, in February 2017, the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Promoting the Sustainable and Healthy Development of the Construction Industry, which clearly put forward: "Optimizing the Qualification Management, Perfecting the Tender and Bidding System, Accelerating the Implementation of General Contracting, Cultivating the Whole Process Engineering Consultation, Strictly Implementing the Quality Responsibility of the Project, Strengthening the Safety Production Management, Comprehensive There are 8 pieces and 20 pieces of opinions and requirements, such as improving supervision level, establishing unified open market, strengthening contract performance management, promoting intelligent and assembled buildings, and speeding up construction enterprises going out. Among them, "optimizing qualification management", "perfecting bidding system" and "cultivating the whole process of Engineering consultation" are obvious in the reform measures this year. "Enterprises such as investment consultation, survey, design, supervision, bidding agent, cost and so on are encouraged to develop through joint operation, merger and acquisition and reorganization. Engineering consulting and cultivating a number of engineering consulting enterprises with international level in the whole process are both requirements and expectations. Encouraging the innovation and development of cost consulting enterprises and going out in the general direction are the overall development trend of this year.

These top-level reform documents have a far-reaching impact on the development of the industry. In addition to standardizing the behavior of enterprises in the industry, they also show that the management system of construction industry and engineering cost consulting industry is becoming more and more perfect. The policy is to guide the direction of better, better, more efficient and more environmental protection.


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"Go all the way" to go out

The 13th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Engineering Cost Cause shows that China has made remarkable achievements in the development of Engineering Cost Cause during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015). Facing the complicated international and domestic environment and the complicated and arduous development task, under the situation of increasing downward pressure of the economy, fixed assets investment and construction industry have maintained steady development. Engineering cost undertakings are guaranteed construction through the reform of engineering valuation system, the basis of engineering valuation and the information service of Engineering cost. Engineering quality and safety, investment efficiency and other aspects have played an important role, the construction cost consulting industry has maintained a steady and rapid growth. At the end of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, the annual revenue of engineering cost consulting industry reached 107.947 billion yuan, an average annual growth of 14.4%.

According to relevant statistics, there are 7505 project cost consulting enterprises nationwide in 2016, an increase of 5.6% over the previous year, and an increase of 3.10 percentage points over the previous year. Since 2012, the number of engineering cost consulting enterprises in China has been increasing steadily, with a cumulative increase of 1012 in five years. At the end of 2016, there were 462,216 employees in engineering cost consulting enterprises, an increase of 11.54% over the previous year. Among them, 426,730 employees were formally employed, accounting for 92.32% of the total number of employees at the end of the year; 35,486 employees were temporarily employed, accounting for the total number of employees at the end of the year.