I. Technical equipment and work site
The enterprises with foreign investment applying for City Planning
Service Qualification Certificate are supposed to meet the following
requirement in terms of technical equipment and work site:
(I) having a certain number of computers, each professional
technician should have one computer.
(II) having digital AO or scanners, AO plotting instruments, color
printers with high resolution ratio;
(III) possessing CAD or GIS software;
(IV) the construction area of per capita work site is no less than
10 square meters.
II. Application materials of enterprises with foreign investment
Enterprises with foreign investment should provide original
application materials and two copies. Original materials will be
returned to applicants after checked with copies by material
receiving organs.
Professional technology proving materials refer to diplomas,
technical post title certificates or certificated city planner
qualification certificates of employed Chinese main land
technicians; diplomas of employed foreign technicians and certifying
documents issued by the competent departments of the governments of
the countries or regions foreign technicians live in or industry
associations, academic institutions or notary offices to prove their
experiences of taking up city planning and their achievements.
Enterprise technical equipment materials refer to allocation
instruction of technical equipment and purchase credence.
The application form of City Planning Service Qualification
Certificate for Enterprises with Foreign Investment can be obtained
from construction offices of the provinces or autonomous regions or
planning bureaus (planning commissions) of municipalities directly
under the Central Government where they registered in advance.
III. The procedure of applying for City Planning Service
Qualification Certificate
In order to make it easy for foreign enterprises to apply for City
Planning Service Qualification Certificate and strengthen the
supervision and administration to city planning activities of local
foreign-invested city planning enterprises conducted by construction
offices of the provinces and autonomous regions and planning bureaus
(planning commissions) of municipalities directly under the Central
Government, enterprises with foreign investment should submit the
application materials stipulated by Article 13 of the Provisions to
construction offices of the provinces and autonomous regions and
planning bureaus (planning commissions) of municipalities directly
under the Central Government where they registered; Construction
offices of the provinces and autonomous regions and planning bureaus
(planning commissions) of municipalities directly under the Central
Government will submit the materials which they have checked and
written comments on to Ministry of Construction within 30 days after
receiving the application materials; Ministry of Construction will
make the decision to approve the application or not within 30 days
after receiving the checked materials. Those who meet Article 6 and
Article 13 of the Provisions will be presented City Planning Service
Qualification Certificate for Enterprises with Foreign Investment;
those who do not meet the two articles will not be presented the
certificate and will be informed the reasons. Furthermore, Ministry
of Construction will inform the enterprises not be approved to State
Administration for Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of
Commerce by letter.
Construction offices of the provinces and autonomous regions and
planning bureaus (planning commissions) of municipalities directly
under the Central Government should take the work of accepting the
application materials of enterprises with foreign investment for
City Planning Service Qualification Certificate seriously and check
the materials correctly according to the requirement of the
Provisions and this Circular.

IV. Announcement on foreign-invested city planning enterprises
For the enterprises presented City Planning Service Qualification
Certificate for Enterprises with Foreign Investment, the Ministry of
Construction will declare their names, addresses, legal
representatives and name lists of professional technicians etc in
the website of Information Center of the Ministry of Construction.