The Office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued a notice, deciding to carry out pilot work on digital management reform of the entire life cycle of engineering construction projects in 27 regions. Three cities were selected, including Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, and Baoding.

The pilot program will start in November 2023 and last for one year. The pilot project will accelerate the establishment of a working mechanism for the aggregation and integration of data throughout the entire life cycle of engineering construction projects, as well as business collaboration. It will connect the regulatory data chain for the approval of engineering construction project design, construction, acceptance, and operation throughout the entire life cycle, promote management process reengineering and institutional reshaping, and form a replicable and promotable management model, implementation path, and policy standard system. This will play a demonstrative and leading role in comprehensively promoting digital management of the entire lifecycle of engineering construction projects and promoting high-quality development in the field of engineering construction.

The pilot areas should focus on promoting the full process digital construction application and approval, establishing a mechanism for assigning building codes and mapping, setting up a mechanism for collecting and sharing data throughout the entire lifecycle, improving the hierarchical data sharing mechanism, promoting the digital management of engineering construction project drawings throughout the entire process, advancing BIM (Building Information Modeling) application and intelligent auxiliary review, and pushing forward innovation in digital management models. Among them, the first four are mandatory tasks, and the last three can be chosen independently based on local conditions. Pilot areas can also expand pilot content based on pilot goals.

According to the requirements, the provincial housing and urban-rural construction supervisory department should organize pilot areas to further improve the work plan, clarify the pilot goals, pilot content, and guarantee measures, increase support for pilot areas, optimize and improve provincial systems, and supervise and guide the implementation of work plans. Pilot areas should timely summarize the experience of pilot work, difficulties and problems encountered, and form perceptible, quantifiable, and evaluable pilot results.