To the People’s Governments of all flags, counties, and districts; the Administrative Committees of Development Zones; all municipal commissions, offices, and bureaus; and relevant enterprises and institutions:
To implement the "Regulations of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Energy Conservation in Civil Buildings and the Development of Green Buildings"the “Implementation Opinions of the General Office of the People’s Government of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Strengthening Energy Conservation in Buildings and the Development of Green Buildings” (Nei Zheng Ban Fa [2021] No. 21) and the “Implementation Opinions of the General Office of the People’s Government of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Promoting the Green Development of New Building Industrialization” (Nei Zheng Ban Fa [2021] No. 41), to further strengthen the management of energy conservation in civil buildings throughout the city, and to promote the high-quality development of green buildings and the green development of new building industrialization, the following opinions are hereby put forward in light of the actual conditions of our city.
I. General Requirements
(1) Guiding Principles
Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, we will fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and all plenary sessions of the 19th Central Committee, earnestly carry out the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches, instructions, and directives regarding Inner Mongolia, and adhere to the guiding principles of green, low-carbon, and sustainable development. Through improving the policy framework, regulating market behavior, strengthening technical support, and integrating industrialization with informatization, we will accelerate the transformation of project organization and implementation methods as well as the application of information technology and smart construction technologies,fully implement the development goals for building energy conservation and green buildings, vigorously promote prefabricated construction technologies, further advance the “dual-control” of energy consumption in the city’s housing and urban-rural development sector, reduce resource and energy consumption, improve the quality of the living environment, and provide strong support for the construction of ecological civilization in our city.
(2) Basic Principles
— Promote in accordance with the law and ensure standardized management. Improve the policy, management, and technical systems; leverage the coordination mechanisms among various departments; and enhance the scientific management of building energy conservation and green building initiatives.
— Prioritize Key Areas, Advance Comprehensively. With the development of green buildings as the central focus, prioritize efforts in improving building energy efficiency, promoting green building materials, advancing prefabricated construction, retrofitting existing buildings for energy efficiency, applying renewable energy, integrating building insulation with structural systems, developing passive ultra-low energy buildings, and implementing green construction practices.
— Adapt to local conditions and provide categorized guidance. Based on the city’s level of economic and social development, we will systematically implement the goals and strategies for building energy conservation and green building development to meet the public’s need for a better living environment.
— Technology-led and innovation-driven. Enhance scientific and technological innovation capabilities, promote the application of “four new technologies” (new technologies, new processes, new materials, and new products), accelerate the phasing out of outdated technologies and products, and achieve the “dual-control” energy consumption targets in the city’s housing and urban-rural development sector.
II. Key Tasks
(I) Continuously Promote Improvements in Building Energy Efficiency
1. Strictly enforce mandatory building energy efficiency standards. Effective April 1, 2022, all new, expanded, and renovated buildings, as well as energy-saving retrofit projects for existing buildings, must strictly comply with the General Specifications for Building Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Utilization (GB55015-2021). The average energy savings rate for new public buildings shall be 72%, and for new residential buildings, 75%. Continue to strengthen supervision over the implementation of mandatory building energy efficiency standards.Strengthen energy conservation oversight during the design, blueprint review, construction, and final acceptance phases of new buildings, and ensure that all parties fulfill their respective responsibilities for energy conservation quality. (Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau; People’s Governments of all flags, counties, districts, and cities; Development Zone Management Committees. Hereinafter, “Responsible Units” refers to the People’s Governments of all flags, counties, districts, and cities, as well as Development Zone Management Committees, and will not be listed separately.)
2. Steadily develop passive ultra-low energy consumption buildings. Incorporate pilot projects for passive ultra-low energy consumption and nearly zero-energy buildings into planning, and continuously advance the development of such buildings. By 2025, fully implement ultra-low energy consumption construction standards across all urban areas in the city; by 2030, the proportion of nearly zero-energy buildings among new urban buildings shall reach over 10%.(Responsible Unit: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau)
3. Improve the building energy conservation supervision system. Strictly implement the “dual-control” targets for energy consumption in the building sector, improve the energy efficiency assessment and management system, strengthen the capacity of energy efficiency assessment institutions, and promote the disclosure of labeling information. Strengthen energy efficiency management in public buildings, promote the installation of energy-saving monitoring systems in government office buildings and large public buildings, and achieve classified and itemized metering of building energy consumption. Advance energy consumption statistics and online monitoring, and strengthen energy efficiency management during the building operation phase.(Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Education Bureau, Health Commission, Commerce Bureau, Government Affairs Service Center)
4. Guide the implementation of building energy conservation standards in rural and pastoral housing. Government-funded public buildings in rural and pastoral areas, as well as various demonstration projects for rural and pastoral housing construction, shall adopt green and energy-saving technologies. Promote the design and construction of residential buildings in rural and pastoral areas in accordance with the *Energy Conservation Design Standards for Residential Buildings in Rural and Pastoral Areas* (DBJ03-78-2017).Promote the construction of green rural housing and the adoption of clean heating methods to guide the transition toward clean and coal-free energy use in rural and pastoral buildings, thereby improving indoor living environments and reducing conventional energy consumption. (Responsible Unit: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau)
(2) Promoting the Large-Scale Development of Green Buildings
5. Strictly enforce the scope of application for green building standards. Implement requirements for carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, continuously strengthen supervision over the enforcement of the "Green Building Evaluation Standard" (GB/T50378-2019), and integrate green development concepts into the entire process of project planning, design, and construction.Actively create green ecological residential communities and green ecological urban districts. Select building forms, materials, and structures by comprehensively considering factors such as energy conservation, emissions reduction, safety, durability, and ease of construction. Advocate the concept of sponge city construction to reduce water consumption and discharge. Starting in 2022, all new buildings within the city’s urban master plan area shall fully comply with green building standards. (Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Bureau of Natural Resources)
6. Develop high-star-rated green buildings.All new government office buildings, affordable housing, government-funded public welfare buildings, large public buildings with a single-unit floor area of 20,000 square meters or more, residential communities of 40,000 square meters or more in the city’s central urban area, residential communities of 20,000 square meters or more in all flags, counties, and districts, as well as civilian buildings in new urban areas and green ecological districts, shall comply with the One-Star Green Building Standard (specifically, within the Economic and Technological Development Zone—“north to Wuliji Muren Street,south to the West Liao River, west to Chuangye Avenue, and east to Fuxing Road) shall fully implement the One-Star Green Building Standard); super-high-rise buildings shall implement the Three-Star Green Building Standard. Compile and implement the “Tongliao City Central Urban Area Green Building Special Plan,” incorporating minimum green building rating requirements into land transfer conditions. Encourage real estate development projects to construct high-star-rated green buildings, and build a cluster of star-rated green buildings and green ecological residential communities in concentrated areas.Further improve the quality of green building standard implementation, and continuously advance the construction of green ecological districts and green ecological residential communities. By 2025, the proportion of star-rated green buildings in urban areas across the city will exceed 30% of all new construction. (Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Natural Resources Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Administrative Approval and Government Services Bureau)
7. Strengthen supervision throughout the entire green building construction process. Housing and urban-rural development authorities at all levels shall incorporate green building development requirements into construction management procedures during the project implementation phase. They shall strictly control key stages such as construction drawing review, construction permits, and completion acceptance filing, strictly implement the "Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Regulations on Energy Conservation in Civil Buildings and Green Building Development" and relevant provisions, and fully fulfill their supervisory responsibilities.
Construction drawing review agencies must strengthen policy oversight regarding the scope of green building implementation and conduct reviews in strict accordance with green building standards; they must strictly review major design changes for green buildings and strictly prohibit unauthorized alterations or reductions in green building design requirements.
Construction quality supervision agencies shall strengthen on-site supervision and inspection of green building materials, equipment, and critical components. Energy-consuming equipment such as building envelopes and HVAC systems shall be subject to supervision and inspection during both the main structure acceptance and final completion acceptance phases, with specific supervisory opinions included in the construction quality supervision report. (Responsible Unit: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau)
(3) Promoting the Development of Building Industrialization
8. Strengthen systematic and integrated design. Promote the coordinated development of the entire industrial chain; encourage design firms to provide full-process consulting services; and implement a project manager responsibility system for new industrialized construction projects. Optimize technical planning schemes during the project’s early stages to ensure the proactive participation of all parties involved in production, construction, and operation and maintenance, and coordinate the development of conceptual design, preliminary design, and construction drawing design. Guide construction entities and engineering general contractors to focus on the final building product and comprehensive benefits, thereby advancing resource sharing, system integration, and coordinated efforts across the entire industrial chain.(Responsible Unit: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau)
9. Fully leverage digital design. Actively adopt BIM-based forward design to promote integrated design across multiple disciplines—including architecture, structure, mechanical and electrical systems, and interior finishes—through digital design methods. Ensure that design depth meets production and construction requirements, and fully utilize the comprehensive advantages of system integration in new building industrialization.Starting in 2023, all building and municipal engineering construction projects within the city with an investment of 100 million yuan or more, or a single-building floor area of 20,000 square meters or more—particularly those involving complex technologies, high requirements for management coordination, and state-owned capital investment—shall fully adopt BIM technology. (Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Bureau of Administrative Approval and Government Services)
10. Strengthen control over architectural aesthetics. Enhance technical validation of design proposals and rigorously implement architectural design requirements that organically integrate standardized design, industrialized construction, and architectural aesthetics in new building industrialization projects. Further refine urban design technical guidelines to ensure that individual building design proposals align with urban design styles in terms of form, color, scale, and height, thereby shaping the city’s distinctive character.During the architectural design review phase, strengthen the evaluation of new project designs, implement the architectural principles of the new era—practicality, economy, sustainability, and aesthetics—strictly control the construction of super-high-rise buildings, and avoid chaotic trends such as excessive scale, imitation of foreign styles, and pursuit of the bizarre. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources, Bureau of Administrative Approval and Government Services, Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
11. Optimize the production layout of building components and parts. Promote the standardization and integration of building components and parts. Vigorously promote prefabricated interior finishing and enhance the industrial support capabilities for building components such as integrated bathrooms, integrated kitchens, and integrated doors and windows, gradually forming a standardized and serialized supply system for building components and parts. Promote a balance between production capacity and supply for prefabricated buildings. Comprehensively consider the transportation and service radius of components and parts, guide the rational layout of production capacity, strengthen market information monitoring, regularly publish information on the supply and demand of components and parts as well as price trends, and improve capacity utilization rates.(Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau)
12. Promote Smart and Lean Construction. Focus on developing smart construction technologies. Accelerate the integrated application of BIM technology throughout the entire lifecycle of new buildings. Actively guide universities, research institutions, industry associations, and construction enterprises to jointly build an industrial internet platform for the construction sector and establish a standardized database of BIM-compliant building components, gradually achieving information exchange and sharing across design, procurement, production, construction, delivery, and operation and maintenance phases.Promote demonstration projects for smart photovoltaic applications, building-integrated energy panels, and related technologies, and facilitate the application of photovoltaic power generation systems integrated with buildings. Launch initiatives to upgrade production and construction equipment with smart capabilities, and encourage the use of intelligent devices such as construction robots, industrial robots, and smart mobile terminals. (Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Big Data Center)
13. Actively apply lean construction methods. Refine lean construction organization methods compatible with new building industrialization, implement coordinated construction of prefabricated building finishes and decorations with the main structure and mechanical and electrical equipment, leverage the advantages of interleaved construction of structure and finishes, and improve the level of精细化 management at construction sites.Strengthen quality and safety controls at critical stages and processes, including the arrival of building components, construction and installation, joint grouting, and sealing and waterproofing. Enhance technical briefings on quality and safety for construction managers and frontline workers. Strengthen organizational management and technical optimization and integration throughout the entire process, and establish a full-process traceability mechanism. Use information technology to monitor and control the generation of dust, noise, light pollution, wastewater, harmful gases, and solid waste at construction sites.Starting in 2022, 100% of toxic and hazardous waste shall be recycled; the volume of construction waste generated shall not exceed 300 tons per 10,000 square meters for cast-in-place concrete structures and 200 tons per 10,000 square meters for prefabricated buildings. (Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau)
14. Actively promote fully finished residential units. Encourage fully finished residential projects to adopt the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) model to achieve integrated design, procurement, and construction. Promote the application of prefabricated finishing methods. Intensify supervision and inspection of fully finished residential units, strengthen sales controls, and improve the quality of finished housing finishes, environmental protection, and indoor environmental conditions. New residential buildings within the city’s central urban area shall take the lead in implementing fully finished construction to facilitate the transaction of finished housing units, and gradually expand the coverage of fully finished residential units citywide.(Responsible Unit: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau)
(IV) Accelerate the Development of Prefabricated Construction
15. Sustain the development of prefabricated construction. Promote the application of prefabricated steel structures in various types of civil buildings, including affordable housing, office buildings, hospitals, schools, science museums, and sports venues. Improve prefabricated concrete structural systems suitable for different building types, and increase the integrated application of high-performance concrete, high-strength reinforcing bars, and energy-dissipating seismic resistance and prestressing technologies. Explore the optimal balance between quality and efficiency in the coordinated use of cast-in-place concrete and prefabricated construction.It is permitted to calculate the prefabrication rate based on the project as a whole, and prefabrication rate quotas may be adjusted among different individual buildings within the same project. For new buildings in areas such as tourist attractions, landscaped gardens, self-driving tourist rest stops, and resort zones, modern prefabricated timber structures shall be developed in accordance with local conditions. Starting in 2023, government-invested construction projects shall, in principle, adopt prefabricated construction, with the prefabrication rate increasing annually;By 2025, the proportion of prefabricated buildings in the city’s urban areas is targeted to reach over 20% of the total new construction floor area for that year; by 2030, this proportion is to reach over 40%. (Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Administrative Approval and Government Services Bureau, Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Culture, Tourism, Radio, Film, and Television Bureau)
16. Increase the Proportion of Prefabricated Finishing. Prefabricated buildings and star-rated green building projects shall fully implement prefabricated finishing. The development of finished housing units shall be actively promoted, and menu-based fully finished options shall be advocated to meet consumers’ personalized needs. Integrated design of prefabricated finishing with specialized fields such as architecture, structural engineering, and mechanical and electrical systems shall be advanced. Technologies for separated piping and integrated modularization shall be promoted to improve finishing quality and reduce operational maintenance costs and energy consumption.Starting in 2023, all new prefabricated buildings must fully adopt prefabricated interior finishing; strive to achieve a prefabricated interior finishing rate of over 30% for commercial housing in the city’s central urban area by 2025, and over 15% in all flags, counties, and cities. (Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Bureau of Industry and Information Technology)
(5) Steadily Advance Energy-Efficiency Retrofits of Existing Buildings
17. Continue to advance energy-saving retrofits of existing residential buildings. In conjunction with urban ecological restoration, clean heating initiatives, and the renovation of aging urban residential communities, actively promote a multi-source funding model for energy-saving retrofits of existing residential buildings. This model involves fiscal funding as a guiding force, with property owners and heating companies as the primary entities, joint construction by utility providers, supplementary funding from residential maintenance funds, and the participation of residents who benefit from the retrofits. Encourage green retrofits of existing residential buildings. By 2025, the city will complete energy-saving retrofits on 1.8 million square meters of existing residential buildings.(Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Municipal Finance Bureau)
18. Vigorously carry out energy-saving retrofits of public buildings. Strengthen energy management in public buildings and promote industry-finance collaboration and financial innovation services. Government office buildings, government-invested public buildings, and public welfare buildings shall take the lead in implementing energy-saving retrofits and adopting energy-efficient operational management. Expenditures paid to energy-saving service companies under the Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) model shall be treated as energy-related expenses.(Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Municipal Finance Bureau, Government Affairs Service Center, Municipal Education Bureau, Municipal Health Commission, Municipal Commerce Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism, Radio, Film, and Television)
(VI) Strengthen the Promotion and Application of Green Building Materials
19. Strengthen the promotion and application of green building materials. Develop new types of building materials that are safe, healthy, environmentally friendly, and of high performance, and foster demonstration products and enterprises in the green building materials sector. Advance the implementation of the green building materials product certification system and strengthen supervision and management over the production, certification, adoption, and application of such products. Improve the green building materials market system, enhance product quality, increase supply, guide green product consumption, and promote the transformation and upgrading of the building materials industry and the construction sector.Promote the use of certified green building materials in government-invested or publicly funded construction projects, such as green buildings and affordable housing. By 2025, the total area of green building materials used in urban areas across the city will reach 1 million square meters. (Responsible Units: Municipal Market Regulation Bureau, Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
20. Promote integrated building insulation and structural systems. Develop a work plan for the promotion of integrated building insulation and structural system technologies, focus on the construction of integrated production bases, guide manufacturers to research, develop, and introduce integrated technologies, improve process and equipment standards, and refine quality assurance systems to ensure the quality and market supply of integrated technology products. Conduct screening of integrated technologies and establish a comprehensive technical support system.Promote the adoption of integrated technologies in the city’s affordable housing, green buildings, government-invested public buildings, and public welfare buildings. By 2025, the proportion of integrated building insulation and structural systems projects in urban areas across the city will reach over 30%. (Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau)
21. Strengthen the promotion and application of “Four New” technologies. Promote the use of new technologies, processes, materials, and products for building energy conservation and green buildings, and promptly publish to the public a catalog of technologies subject to promotion, restriction, or prohibition.Promote mature technologies and products such as natural lighting, ventilation, rainwater harvesting, reclaimed water utilization, water conservation, and sound insulation in a manner suited to local conditions. Encourage the production of wall materials using solid waste such as construction debris, coal gangue, fly ash, furnace slag, and tailings as raw materials. (Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Industry and Information Technology Bureau)
(7) Expand the Scale of Renewable Energy Applications in Buildings
22. Strengthen the application of renewable energy in buildings. Fully utilize natural lighting and ventilation to reduce building energy consumption. Reasonably adopt renewable energy and waste heat resources. Promote the application of new energy sources such as solar energy, shallow geothermal energy, and air-source heat pumps in buildings based on local conditions to reduce the use of conventional energy in civilian buildings. Strengthen management across all stages of renewable energy building projects, including planning, design, construction, acceptance, and operation.Vigorously develop solar water heating building-integrated systems and promote the adoption of solar thermal building-integrated technology in residential buildings of 12 stories or fewer, as well as in public buildings such as hospitals, schools, hotels, swimming pools, and public bathhouses. Promote the distributed and integrated application of solar photovoltaic systems in urban buildings to achieve on-site production and consumption. By 2025, the proportion of renewable energy used in civilian buildings across the city’s urban areas will reach 30%.(Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Administrative Approval and Government Services Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Energy Bureau)
(8) Promote Green Construction
23. Promote green construction and safe, civilized construction practices. Launch demonstration projects for green construction. Through scientific management and the adoption of advanced technologies, strengthen controls over construction dust management, water conservation and energy efficiency, construction waste transportation, noise pollution, and the reuse of demountable materials. Implement the “Four Savings and One Environmental Protection” requirements (energy conservation, land conservation, water conservation, material conservation, and environmental protection) to maximize energy and resource savings and enhance the level of green construction and environmental governance at construction sites.(Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau, Municipal Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau for Urban Management)
(9) Innovate Organizational Management Models
24. Vigorously promote engineering general contracting. State-funded investment projects and prefabricated building projects should actively adopt the engineering general contracting model to promote the deep integration of design, production, and construction. Guide leading enterprises in the construction industry to enhance their capabilities in project management, technological innovation, and resource allocation; cultivate engineering general contracting enterprises with comprehensive management capabilities; ensure that engineering general contracting units fulfill their primary responsibilities; and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of such units.By 2025, the city will have cultivated at least five leading construction enterprises with independent comprehensive EPC management capabilities; supporting policies for EPC will be largely in place; and the EPC market will be largely mature. (Responsible Unit: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau)
25. Accelerate the development of full-process engineering consulting. Vigorously develop full-process engineering consulting services that are market-demand-oriented and meet the diverse needs of clients. Guide engineering consulting firms to broaden their business scope and cultivate a group of strong, high-performing, and reputable enterprises in surveying, design, supervision, cost consulting, bidding agency, and project management to engage in full-process engineering consulting. Starting in 2022, government-invested projects and state-owned enterprise-invested projects will take the lead in implementing full-process engineering consulting for construction projects.(Responsible Unit: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau)
26. Improve quality and safety supervision mechanisms. Strengthen quality management of prefabricated components, establish a system requiring supervision firms to station personnel on-site for manufacturing supervision, and implement full-process quality accountability tracing. Establish a long-term mechanism for quality supervision of prefabricated components in new construction.Explore engineering insurance systems, establish and improve engineering quality insurance and guarantee systems, and assist enterprises in strengthening risk management through accident prevention and premium adjustment mechanisms to ensure construction quality. Incorporate indicators related to residential green performance and the quality of fully finished interiors into commercial housing sales contracts, residential quality warranty certificates, and residential user manuals. Scientifically adjust cost standards for prefabricated and green building projects. (Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Market Regulation Bureau)
(10) Strengthen Talent and Technological Support
27. Cultivate a talent pool for the new construction industry. Through enhanced vocational skills training and the organization of vocational skills competitions, standardize and guide various construction enterprises to intensify training for construction workers, expand the workforce, and increase the supply of highly skilled talent. Support higher education institutions in aligning with the industry’s new demands, business models, and technologies by offering relevant courses and establishing industry-academia-research bases.Vigorously promote the modern apprenticeship system in construction enterprises, focusing on cultivating skilled personnel in BIM technology application, steel structure construction, prefabricated building construction, and prefabricated interior finishing. Strengthen the training of traditional construction craftsmen and support foremen and team leaders with management capabilities to form specialized work teams. Guide construction enterprises to link compensation to construction workers’ skill levels and improve the long-term mechanism for ensuring wage payments in the construction sector.(Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Municipal Education Bureau)
28. Promote technological innovation and industrialization. Establish a technology innovation system centered on enterprises, market-oriented, and integrating industry, academia, research, and application. Actively introduce, assimilate, and adopt advanced technologies in building energy efficiency and green building; develop integrated product suites and new technologies suited to our city’s actual conditions; and advance the industrialization of advanced and mature technological products.Support R&D for BIM underlying platform software, joint research on steel structure building envelope systems, material properties, and connection techniques, as well as R&D for intelligent construction technologies such as quality inspection of grouting in prefabricated concrete structures, high-efficiency connections, and construction robots. (Responsible Units: Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Finance Bureau, Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Tax Bureau)
III. Support Measures
(1) Strengthen Organizational Leadership. All flags, counties, and districts shall formulate supporting policy measures following the issuance of this opinion, refine objectives and tasks, treat the development of prefabricated and green buildings as a key pathway to implementing energy consumption “dual-control” targets, designate responsible units, implement support policies, improve accountability mechanisms, and establish a collaborative governance framework.Starting in 2022, when establishing planning conditions for construction land, approving project proposals, and conducting engineering planning and design in the city’s central urban area, the proportions of prefabricated buildings, star-rated green buildings, passive houses, and prefabricated interior finishes shall be clearly specified.
(2) Strengthen supervision throughout the entire construction process. In accordance with the relevant requirements of the "Regulations on Energy Conservation in Civil Buildings and the Development of Green Buildings in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region" and other regulations, improve the supervision mechanism covering the entire process of civil building projects—including project approval, planning, land use, design, drawing review, construction, testing, acceptance, and evaluation—and ensure that all parties involved in construction, such as developers, surveyors, designers, construction drawing reviewers, contractors, and supervisors, fulfill their responsibilities to implement relevant laws, policies, standards, and specifications regarding building energy conservation and green buildings.Housing and Urban-Rural Development authorities at all levels shall incorporate building energy efficiency and green building development requirements into construction management procedures during the implementation phase. They shall strictly oversee key stages such as construction drawing review, construction permitting, and completion acceptance filing. Following the “double random, public disclosure” and “Internet Plus supervision” models, they shall adopt a combined approach of routine inspections and random spot checks, focusing on the implementation by all parties of relevant building energy efficiency and green building standards, the specialized sections on building energy efficiency and green building design,the quality of construction drawing reviews, specialized construction technical plans, and specialized supervision guidelines. Supervision and management of all parties’ implementation of building energy efficiency and green building quality standards must be strengthened to ensure that all requirements are fully implemented.
(3) Strengthen support through fiscal, land, and financial policies. Starting in 2023, public buildings in the city’s central urban area funded by state-owned capital must lead by example in adhering to prefabricated building and star-rated green building standards. Social investment projects are encouraged and supported to adopt prefabricated building and green building practices. Prefabricated building industrial bases (parks) will be recommended for inclusion in the autonomous region’s key demonstration zones to benefit from policies applicable to new industrialization demonstration zones.Enterprises are encouraged to actively apply for designation as production bases for prefabricated building components, and land support will be provided in accordance with industrial land policies. Eligible prefabricated building demonstration projects shall enjoy relevant tax and fee preferential policies as prescribed. Manufacturers of components listed in the Catalog of New Wall Materials may enjoy the VAT immediate refund policy as prescribed.
(4) Strengthen policy support for the construction industry. Support construction enterprises in conducting environmental impact assessments and monitoring; during periods of severe air pollution, construction activities in prefabricated building and other new industrialized construction projects that do not involve earthwork may continue without suspension. Establish emission quota standards for construction waste, implement public disclosure of construction waste emissions at construction sites, and encourage all flags, counties, and cities to provide incentives to construction enterprises that meet construction waste reduction requirements at their sites.Priority will be given to recommending prefabricated building and star-rated green building projects for awards such as the Luban Award and the Grassland Cup. For projects funded by state-owned capital, tender documents must explicitly include requirements for prefabricated buildings and star-rated green buildings as substantive criteria. Small and medium-sized construction enterprises with the necessary capabilities are encouraged to form consortia to undertake prefabricated building and green building projects. Real estate projects utilizing prefabricated construction methods may apply for pre-sale permits once civil engineering work reaches the zero-level elevation.Strong support will be provided for new building industrialization projects to participate in the Green Building Innovation Award selection.
(5) Improve incentive mechanisms. In conjunction with policies on energy conservation and emissions reduction, industrial development, technological innovation, and pollution prevention and control, prioritize increased support for passive ultra-low energy and nearly zero-energy buildings, star-rated green buildings, prefabricated buildings, renewable energy applications, energy-saving retrofits of existing buildings, resource recovery from solid waste, energy performance contracting projects, research projects, and infrastructure capacity building. Continue to implement tax and fee reductions and preferential policies for green building evaluation and labeling projects.Improve financial services for green buildings, prefabricated buildings, and passive ultra-low energy buildings. Support financial institutions in offering loan amount or interest rate incentives to purchasers, provided such measures comply with real estate regulation policies. Promote green finance to support building energy conservation and green building development. Make effective use of the National Green Development Fund, and encourage the adoption of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in the public service sector to advance these initiatives.
(6) Strengthen Performance Evaluation. The people’s governments of all flags, counties, districts, and cities, as well as the management committees of development zones, are the primary responsible entities for advancing building energy conservation and green building development, and for promoting the green development of new building industrialization in their respective regions. The housing and urban-rural development departments are the primary departments responsible for implementing these duties.In accordance with the requirements for building energy conservation and green building development—including those related to air pollution prevention and control, energy consumption “dual control,” and the assessment of responsibilities for ecological civilization construction—work mechanisms must be improved, policy measures refined, responsibilities clearly defined, implementation efforts intensified, supervision and inspection strengthened, and publicity and education carried out to ensure that all objectives and tasks are implemented thoroughly and in detail.Progress and achievements must be summarized in a timely manner and compiled into an annual report, which shall be submitted to the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau by the end of each year. The Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, in conjunction with relevant departments, shall provide dynamic guidance, conduct supervision and evaluation, and assess the effectiveness of efforts in all flags, counties, and districts as appropriate.
