The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development recently issued the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of Project Costs". The highlights and full text are as follows:

　　At the end of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", the annual operating income of the engineering cost consulting industry reached 107.947 billion yuan, and the number of enterprises reached 7,107; there were more than 410,000 employees in engineering cost consulting enterprises, including 73,612 registered cost engineers and 108,624 cost officers.

　　Although the vocational qualification examination for cost personnel has been cancelled, neither the skills they have mastered nor the work they are engaged in should not be denied. Where do their life and career plans go?

　　Establish pricing rules that adapt to the general contracting model of projects, and realize the unification of pricing methods and pricing rules for the national bill of quantities.

　　Establish engineering cost consulting companies, engineering cost professionals, and project information inquiry, disclosure and use systems, and improve the identification standards for bad behavior. Establish a coordination mechanism for joint incentives for trustworthiness and joint punishment for dishonesty.

　　Efforts to cultivate 100 large and medium-sized enterprises that can undertake the comprehensive engineering consulting business with cost management as the core, and whose output value exceeds 100 million yuan.

　　Create 100 professional leading talents and 5,000 gold medal cost engineers to promote the overall improvement of the quality of engineering cost talents

　　The 13th Five-Year Plan for Project Cost Development

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　　In order to implement the "Outline of the 13th Five-Year Plan for the National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China" and the "Outline of the 13th Five-Year Plan for Housing and Urban-Rural Development", we will fully implement the "Procedures of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Further Strengthening the Management of Urban Planning and Construction" "Several Opinions" and "Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Promoting the Sustainable and Healthy Development of the Construction Industry" (Guobanfa [2017] No. 19), the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development organized relevant units to prepare the "13th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Engineering Costs". This plan strives to reflect the development concept of innovation, coordination, greenness, openness, and sharing, and the construction policy of "applicability, economy, greenness, and beauty". It puts forward the guiding ideology, main goals, development concepts and key tasks for the development of the engineering cost cause, which is a guide A programmatic document for the reform and development of project cost during the 13th Five-Year Plan period.

　　 1. Guiding ideology, main goals and development concepts

　　 The "13th Five-Year Plan" period is the decisive stage for my country to build a well-off society in all respects. The development of the project cost cause must earnestly implement the strategic decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, accurately grasp the development environment at home and abroad, actively adapt to the new normal of leading economic development, closely focus on the spirit of the Central City Work Conference, and resolutely implement the "applicable, economic, and green" “Beautiful” construction policy to jointly promote the healthy development of engineering cost.

　　(1) Development environment.

　　During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, my country's engineering cost cause has achieved remarkable development. In the face of complicated international and domestic environments and complex and arduous development tasks, fixed asset investment and the construction industry have maintained steady development in the context of increasing downward pressure on the economy. Engineering cost information services have played an important role in ensuring the quality and safety of construction projects and improving investment efficiency. The engineering cost consulting industry has maintained a steady and rapid growth.

　　——The reform of project cost management was fully launched. The "Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on Further Promoting the Reform of Project Cost Management" (Jianbiao [2014] No. 142) has further promoted the market-oriented reform of project cost management. In accordance with the requirements of the market to determine the project cost, the project cost formation mechanism of "enterprise independent quotation and competition to form a price" has been improved. Issued the "Administrative Measures for the Contracting and Pricing of Construction Projects" (Order No. 16 of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development), and initiated the revision of the "Interim Measures for the Settlement of Construction Projects" to further standardize the contracting and price settlement activities in the construction market. Local governments have cooperated with the introduction of reform opinions, legislation and system construction have been carried out in an orderly manner, local regulations on project cost have been announced, project cost dispute mediation has been carried out, and project cost management has become more standardized. The construction of the project cost credit system is being carried out in an orderly manner, and the credit management system has been initially established.

　　——The healthy development of engineering cost consulting industry. At the end of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", the annual operating income of the engineering cost consulting industry reached 107.947 billion yuan, an average annual increase of 14.4%. The number of enterprises has reached 7,107, including 3,021 Class A and 4,086 Class B; there are more than 410,000 employees in engineering cost consulting companies, including 73,612 registered cost engineers and 108,624 cost officers. The service project investment is 28 trillion yuan. The construction cost consulting business structure is striding forward to the high-end consulting industry. The proportion of the whole process cost consulting service business has increased by 10%, and new growth points such as the full life cycle, building information modeling (BIM), and information services are constantly emerging.

　　——The quality of engineering cost professionals has been continuously improved. At the end of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the number of professional and technical personnel engaged in project cost in the country has been increasing year by year, totaling 1.45 million, and 150,000 cost engineers registered in various enterprises such as project cost consulting, supervision, and bidding agency, basically covering project investment , Construction and operation of the whole process. The number of colleges and universities offering a bachelor's degree in engineering cost has grown rapidly, with more than 130 by the end of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period. The basic quality of engineering cost graduates has continued to improve. There are frequent exchanges of engineering cost professionals. According to the "Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic and Trade Relations Arrangement Agreement" signed by the Central Government and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, more than 300 Hong Kong quantity surveyors have obtained mutual recognition and registration of Mainland cost engineers, and more than 360 Mainland China The cost engineer was certified as a Hong Kong Quantity Surveyor.

　　——The engineering pricing standard system has been continuously improved. The "Construction Engineering Quantity List Valuation Specification" and the corresponding 9 sets of engineering quantity calculation specifications for different professions were released. The national unified quotas for construction, installation, and municipal administration have been revised. The industry and local quotas are constantly updated. As of the end of the "12th Five-Year Plan", the state , Industries, and local governments have released more than 1,600 volumes of various quotas and estimated and estimated indicators, which basically meet the needs of the market. Industry self-discipline standards such as the "Construction Cost Consultation Specification" have been released one after another.

　　——The construction of project cost informationization is developing steadily. In accordance with the development needs of project cost informatization, a series of standards and specifications have been formulated such as the "Construction Engineering Manual Materials, Equipment and Machinery Data Standards", laying the foundation for the development of project cost informatization. The construction of information platform and information collection have achieved remarkable results. Professional tool software and office management software have improved business capabilities and management levels. Cloud technology and BIM technology have also gained a lot of successful experience. Information services such as building material prices and labor unit prices in all provinces (regions, cities) across the country are released dynamically in real time, meeting the needs of all parties involved in project construction.

　　During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the fundamentals of my country's long-term economic improvement have not changed, and the prospects for development remain broad. New-type urbanization and the “One Belt One Road” construction release new impetus for fixed asset investment and the development of the construction industry, stimulating new vitality, and the demand for structural reforms, transformation and upgrading of the construction industry continues to increase. The Central City Work Conference clearly proposed the implementation of major public facilities and infrastructure projects, strengthening the construction of urban rail transit, sponge cities, and urban underground comprehensive pipe corridors, speeding up the renovation of shanty towns and dilapidated houses, and promoting the comprehensive renovation and engineering maintenance of old residential quarters in an orderly manner . New innovation points, growth poles, and growth belts in the engineering cost consulting industry are constantly taking shape. However, my country is still facing problems such as the slowdown of economic growth and fixed asset investment, economic growth driven from investment to innovation, slower growth of real estate investment, and increased risks of contraction in the construction industry. At the same time, there are still inconsistent pricing rules for project cost, the pricing basis needs to be improved to meet market demand, the pricing basis for serving green, energy-saving, low-carbon, and prefabricated buildings is not systematic, and project cost information services lack unified planning and timeliness. The construction cost consulting social credit system is slow, and the cost control concept of the whole process and life cycle of the project is not deep. The project cost governance system and governance capabilities need to be further improved.