NPC's rule scrutiny welcome

In a letter of request to the country's top legislature in May 2015, the China Construction Industry Association claimed a regulation promulgated by Beijing, Shandong province and other regions in recent years goes beyond the scope of local legislative authority and should be repealed.

The regulation stipulating that the settlement of expenses for all construction projects should be made only after the auditing of the projects is against the rights of the construction companies, the association said.

On the surface, such an administrative regulation adds to the quality and safety of projects, but it is essentially in breach of the principle of "equality and voluntariness" enshrined in the Contract Law. With such a regulation, the investors in construction projects sometimes deliberately delay paying construction enterprises the expenses, aggravating the latter's financial burden.