Recently, the Xingao Lixiangcheng affordable housing project in Xiuying District, Haikou City, entered the interior decoration phase and has been welcoming batches of visiting clients. "The approval processes for project planning and design, project approval and filing, and other stages have been simplified, greatly advancing the project's construction progress," introduced Han Song, project manager of the Xingao Lixiangcheng affordable housing project. For example, the construction permit for the foundation pit support and earthwork excavation of Phase I in the west zone of the project was obtained on the same day it was applied for, with construction starting that same day.
　　What has helped project construction achieve "acceleration" is the reform of the engineering construction project approval system (hereinafter referred to as the "reform") implemented in Hainan.
　　Project approval involving many departments, cumbersome approval procedures, and long processing times were once the "pain points" and "bottlenecks" of engineering construction projects. In recent years, the Administrative Approval Office of the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has taken Party building as its guide, continuously deepened capacity and work style development, and coordinated the implementation of the province's reform, achieving "unification," "standardization," and "informatization."
　　"We have built a province-wide unified engineering construction project approval and management system, forming one set of approval lists, one set of service guides, and one set of processing procedures covering engineering construction projects across the province, and created the 'Hainan Province Engineering Construction Project Approval and Management System,' becoming the first in the country to achieve 100% electronic certificates for provincial-level engineering construction project approval, realizing 'integrated,' 'standardized,' and 'intelligent' approval," introduced the relevant person in charge of the Administrative Approval Office of the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.
　　In 2023, Hainan's engineering construction project approval reform entered the ranks of the nation's advanced, and was replicated and promoted nationwide by the State Council as free trade zone reform experience. In 2024, Hainan Province continues to deepen the reform, issuing 3.0 version measures to tackle the toughest "hard bones"; the practices related to reform 3.0 were promoted nationwide by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.
　　In recent years, the Administrative Approval Office of the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has actively explored the deep integration of Party building and business, promoting "efficient," "intelligent," and "seamless" approval of housing and urban-rural development matters, fully implementing electronic certificates, and continuously enhancing the sense of gain for enterprises and the public. Provincial-level approval matters under the authority of the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development have been streamlined from 48 major categories of administrative licensing in 2008 to 8 major categories, a reduction rate of 81.3%. The office has advanced the refined sorting of approval matters and implemented "Internet + government services" with "one-stop online processing," letting information travel more and enterprises and the public make fewer trips, with both the early completion rate and the full-process online processing rate reaching 100%.