Responsibilities of the Department

1. The Department takes the responsibilities of implementing policies, laws and regulations of the national and provincial housing and urban-rural construction; organizing the drafting work of local laws and regulations, compiling relevant programme and annual planning; drawing up relevant policies and norms with guidance and supervision on their implementation.
2. The Department assumes the responsibilities of carrying forward the housing reform and ensuring the housing issue of the low-income families in cities and towns.
3. The Department is in charge of the supervision and management of housing public accumulation funds so as to ensure its use-efficiency and safety.
4. The Department assumes the responsibility of standardizing the Real Estate market order with supervision and management on the market.
5. The Department takes the responsibility of the supervision and management work on the Urban-Rural planning.
6. The Department assumes the responsibility of guiding city construction work.
7. The Department is responsible for standardizing the villages and towns construction with guidance.
8. The Department is in charge of supervising the construction market and regulating the behaviors of the enterprises on the construction market.
9. The Department assumes the responsibility of offering supervision and management on construction engineering quality and safety.
10. The Department is responsible for carrying forward the work of construction energy-saving and emission reduction as well as the scientific development of the whole industry.
11. The Department develops international economic and technological exchange and cooperation on housing and urban-rural construction programmes. 12. The Department undertakes other items that the Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the PRC assign to it.