With the consent of the State Council, 15 departments, including the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Ministry of Emergency Response, recently jointly issued the Notice on Strengthening the Safety Management of Commercial Self-built Houses (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), requiring that Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era be used as the guide, thoroughly implement the spirit of the <>th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, comprehensively strengthen the safety management of commercial self-built houses, and effectively safeguard the safety of people's lives and the overall social stability.
The "Circular" pointed out that since the launch of the national special rectification work on self-built housing safety, the national inter-ministerial coordination mechanism for the special rectification work on self-built housing safety has coordinated all regions and departments to conscientiously implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, concentrated on carrying out the "100-day action" on commercial self-built houses, quickly investigated and changed commercial self-built houses that endanger public safety, promptly eliminated safety risks, and achieved positive results. However, the volume of commercial self-built houses is large, the situation is complex, and the safety management foundation is weak, so it is urgent to strengthen source governance and accelerate the construction of a long-term mechanism for the safety management of commercial self-built houses.
The "Circular" emphasizes that it is necessary to adhere to the supremacy of the people and the supremacy of life, and comprehensively strengthen the safety management of commercial self-built houses from three aspects: managing the stock of housing, strictly controlling the increment, and improving the mechanism. It is necessary to strengthen the safety management of existing commercial self-built houses from the aspects of strictly implementing the main responsibility, strengthening daily inspections, effectively eliminating potential safety hazards, and strictly managing renovation and expansion and decoration. It is necessary to strictly supervise new commercial self-built houses from the aspects of strengthening the management of planning and construction approval, strengthening the safety supervision of conversion to business use, and checking and rectifying illegal acts. It is necessary to improve the housing safety management system and mechanism from the aspects of improving the management system, improving the departmental coordination mechanism, strengthening the management of housing safety appraisal, accelerating the construction of informatization, and improving laws and regulations.
The "Circular" requires that all localities should further strengthen organizational leadership, speed up the formulation of relevant implementation rules and specific measures, strictly implement territorial responsibilities, clarify the responsibilities of various departments, standardize the approval and management of land, planning, construction and operation of commercial self-built houses, increase the intensity of capital, personnel and technical safeguards, promptly eliminate potential safety hazards, strictly investigate and deal with all kinds of violations of laws and regulations in accordance with the law, do practical and detailed ideological work for the masses, do a good job in ensuring people's livelihood, and create a good social atmosphere. (Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development website)