Processing building permits is an important indicator for the World Bank to measure the comprehensive consideration of the business environment. After two rounds of reforms, Shanghai has continued to allow enterprises to enjoy "Shanghai speed" by promoting the reform of the construction project approval system and optimizing the business environment.
Since 2017, the Shanghai Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Management Committee has taken the lead, focusing on optimizing approvals, and using corporate satisfaction as the criterion to comprehensively promote the two-round construction project approval reform. What can be seen is that, from improving the World Bank evaluation ranking at the beginning of the reform to now focusing on alleviating the pain points of enterprises, Shanghai is constantly actively expanding the scope of reform. The service spirit of "waiters" also continuously helps enterprises improve quality and efficiency.
More than 3,200 projects have enjoyed the dividends of reform
As an important indicator of the World Bank’s business environment to measure the quality of the business environment, “processing construction permits” involves many approval departments and a long cycle. It once became a "minus item" for China's business environment. In January 2018, the State Council executive meeting deployed and required the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development to take the lead in special actions to improve the ranking of construction permit indicators and promote the reform of the construction project approval system.
On October 24, 2019, in the "Global Doing Business Report 2020" released by the World Bank, China's global ranking for the "Processing Construction Permits" indicator rose 88 places, setting a record for a single indicator year in the history of the World Bank's assessment. The largest increase on record. In the past three years, China's ranking on this indicator has risen from 172nd in 2017 to 121st in 2018, and then jumped to 33rd in 2019.
In the World Bank's business environment evaluation, Shanghai, which accounted for 55% of the statistical weight, even demonstrated its "Shanghai speed".
As one of the first batch of pilot cities, Shanghai has been at the forefront of the reform of the construction project approval system and has now implemented two rounds of special reforms.
Shanghai has learned from the practices of Hong Kong, Singapore and other places, focusing on social investment projects in Shanghai, and has successively launched "process reengineering, classified approval, early intervention, notification of commitments, integration of multiple evaluations, joint review of multiple plans, and synchronization" The version 1.0 reform of "one-time application, one-stop acceptance, one-stop processing, and one-time issuance of certificates".
In streamlining the project approval process, Shanghai used methods such as "reduction, merging, releasing, transferring, and adjusting" to cancel 14 administrative approval items, reduce 11 preconditions for approval, and reduce 26 items to The approval items were merged into 3 items, the approval timing of 24 items was adjusted and optimized, notification commitments were actively implemented, and the approval methods were changed.
Today, relying on the Shanghai Municipal Government’s “One-stop Service”, the “Shanghai Engineering Construction Project Approval Management System” has been developed and constructed, and the application, acceptance, approval, and issuance of various procedures for social investment projects can be processed online. , Planning permits, construction permits, completion acceptance notices, etc. all use electronic licenses.
Data show that through two rounds of reforms, as of the end of 2019, more than 3,200 projects in Shanghai *** have enjoyed the dividends brought by the reforms, including nearly 1,700 social investment projects.
Expand the pilot program to "accommodate deficiencies and make up for them later" to refresh the "Shanghai speed"
And from the projects that have been implemented, we can also get a glimpse of the "Shanghai speed" of construction project approval.
Take the Tesla project as an example. According to Xi Xiaobin, the Lingang project approval specialist, “Tesla’s early land supply was extremely fast. From the signing of the contract to the land supply, it only took 2 and a half months (this period also included (Land acquisition for agricultural conversion); in addition, the project unit’s cycle from establishing a domestic design team to starting construction is also very short, only 3 months.”
The reason why it is so fast is the preparation of project data, Xi Xiaobin said. These two steps, administrative approval, are always running interactively. From approval to completion acceptance of the Tesla project, the Lingang Administrative Committee explored innovative systems such as "accommodating vacancies in the main line and making up for them later" and "coordinating multiple auxiliary lines" to speed up the process in the shortest possible time under the premise of legal compliance. Project progress.
Fu Yongming, a staff member of the Institutional Innovation and Risk Prevention Department of the Lingang Administrative Committee, previously introduced that the first phase of Tesla’s factory covers an area of ??157,000 square meters, including 4 joint factories and surrounding production facilities. The quantity is large and the construction is complicated. Only 9 construction permits were issued. If we follow the traditional administrative examination and approval thinking, every time a certificate is issued, it means a "waiting". In accordance with the requirements,
Lingang explored and tried a new mechanism of "accommodating deficiencies and making up for them later". The approval department innovatively promised to issue a construction permit first, so that the project would not be blocked due to approval, and then the construction party would make up for it. Mechanical and electrical engineering drawings to ensure compliance and legality of all approval processes.
Official data shows that on October 17, 2018, the Tesla project signed a land transfer contract. On February 27, 2019, the first construction permit for the first phase was obtained. On October 25, 2019, the comprehensive acceptance of the completion of the first phase of the project was completed. On January 7, 2020, the domestic Tesla Model 3 model was officially delivered at the Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai. At the same time, Tesla announced that the second phase of the Shanghai Lingang Gigafactory project was officially launched, and the Chinese version of model Y will be produced here.
It is worth mentioning that this approach of "Tesla" will also expand the pilot.
The Shanghai Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Commission stated that it will actively expand the pilot program of "accommodating deficiencies and making up for them later" for major industrial projects and major engineering projects. Further expand the scope of "notification and commitment", sort out a group of non-critical requirements that generally do not affect safety and public interests, and try to "accommodate deficiencies and then make up for them" in the approval process, allowing construction entities to make up for them within a certain period of time. At the same time, multiple strategies have been implemented to expand the “disposal and postponing” evaluation and review of pilot auxiliary lines.
In addition, the implementation of the Jita Semiconductor project also set a new pace in Shanghai. At the end of 2017, the Shanghai Jita Semiconductor project located in the Lingang area was listed as a major national integrated circuit project in 2018. This project is the first integrated circuit project under the strategic cooperation agreement between China Electronics Information Industry Corporation and Shanghai Municipality, and has been recognized as a major industrial project in Shanghai by the Shanghai Municipal Economic and Information Technology Commission. The project took only 8 months from signing the contract to obtaining the construction permit and starting construction on August 15, 2018. So far, the phased construction goals have been completed on schedule.
Be a good "waiter" and help obtain construction-related permits as early as possible
"Optimizing the business environment is not only about the construction application process, but also about meeting the real needs of enterprises. Although the corridor It seems like a small project, but it is of great help to PepsiCo," said Zhang Lei, deputy director of the G60 Approval Agency Center of the Songjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee.
PepsiCo Food Co., Ltd., located in Songjiang Economic and Technological Open Zone, already has Phase I and Phase II factories. In order to make production more convenient and efficient, PepsiCo hopes to build an air corridor to connect the Phase I and Phase II factories. It achieves the purpose of material transportation between the two factories and makes production more convenient.
However, there is a municipal road between the two factories. At that time, there was still a blank in the application for the construction of a corridor across the municipal road in Songjiang District. This was a big challenge at the time.
According to Zhang Lei, “It turns out that Pepsi Foods only had the first phase of its factory building in Songjiang. Later, when PepsiCo wanted to expand production, there happened to be a company that was about to exit opposite the first phase. We negotiated the relocation through the local government, and then purchased and stored it. Later, it was transferred to PepsiCo Foods. After the cage was vacated, PepsiCo Foods was retained. However, there was a municipal road between the first and second phase factories. In daily production, there was a problem in the transportation of materials and finished products. It was very inconvenient. In the end, in order to allow the company to operate with peace of mind, the relevant departments of Songjiang held multiple special meetings and spent 2 months finally deciding to break the rules without violating regulations and separate the use rights and property rights to allow the sky corridor to be built. It helps enterprises save transportation time and costs, including transportation inconveniences caused by weather, which is a big breakthrough for daily operations and speeds up production efficiency.
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According to reports, Pepsi Food (China) Co., Ltd.’s expansion corridor project covers an area of ??about 600 square meters. It is the first city-wide project to obtain both a construction project planning permit and a construction permit, and is exempted from the requirement. At the same time, the government will pay for the project supervision fees during the drawing review process. This is the first project in Songjiang District to benefit from the "zero cost" start of a social investment small industrial project.
The relevant person in charge of the enterprise also said that he was very lucky to have caught up with many favorable policies. “The government’s support for enterprises is getting stronger and stronger. ”
“The successful implementation of the Pepsi Corridor Project also provides reference for subsequent projects. In the future, OmniVision Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. will also build a new corridor project,” Zhang Lei said.
In Zhang Lei’s view, the rapid implementation of the project was due to the fact that “the approvals of various commissions and bureaus have been accelerated, and at the same time, the waiter services in various places have kept up. With the rapid approval, we have played the role of catalyst and lubricant. In the past, construction applications were handled by people. Now we take the initiative to help companies handle these tasks, help companies sort out the materials needed for construction applications, and help obtain construction-related permits as early as possible so that projects can be implemented quickly. ”
The Paper noted that due to the accelerated approval process and the spirit of “shop waiter”, a series of headquarters-type projects were launched in Songjiang: Shanghai Super Silicon Semiconductor Co., Ltd.’s new AST Group headquarters project, Shanghai Evergrande National Energy NEVS new Energy vehicle projects and other projects are under construction, with total project investment exceeding 10 billion.
We must adopt multiple strategies to streamline projects and fully implement the "Five Ones"
The only way to optimize the business environment is to proceed. The time is not yet complete. Extensive promotion and replication of Tesla’s experience and continuous relief of enterprise pain points have become the city’s main goals in optimizing the business environment for building permits.
The Paper is from the Shanghai Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Commission. It is learned that the next step for Shanghai's construction permit processing will be to launch version 3.0 this year, and the "Five Ones" will be fully implemented: "Only one door" (that is, enterprises only need to go to the approval review center), "Only one window" ” (i.e., enterprises only need to submit all relevant matters at one comprehensive acceptance window), “only submit one set of forms” (i.e., enterprises only need to submit the required forms at one window at once), “only record in one system” (i.e. Enterprises only need to log in to a unified approval information system once) and "only see one department" (that is, enterprises only deal with one department in the approval and review center from construction reporting to completion acceptance), which truly opens up the way for enterprises and relieves pain points.
At the same time, we will reduce the "invisible time" of corporate services. We will intensify reform efforts to clean up a number of intermediary service matters that are not supported by superior laws. Approval. For intermediary service matters that only involve the engineering construction project itself and have little impact on public interests and public safety, a batch of standard substitutions will be implemented for those with complete land and planning conditions and clear functional positioning. Regionally, implement regional assessments and share assessment results. Standardize a batch of intermediary service matters that have a greater impact on public interests and public safety, and improve services through measures such as implementing classified management and implementing notification commitments. Efficiency.