According to Xinhua News Agency, in the four months since the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development launched the "Two Year Action on Project Quality Control", 30 construction enterprises have successively been on the "blacklist" of construction quality violations, including CSCEC, China Second Metallurgical Corporation, middling coal Construction Group and other well-known enterprises.

Famous state-owned enterprises exposed

Recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development has successively released a number of typical cases of illegal and irregular engineering quality. China Second Metallurgical Group Corporation, a national special grade construction enterprise under China Metallurgical Science and Industry Corporation, had illegal subcontracting issues during a construction project in Inner Mongolia; Middling coal Construction Group was notified by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development because the estimated value of concrete rebound strength did not meet the design requirements. As one of the influential construction companies in China, the Fourth Engineering Bureau under China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) is also on the list due to its disregard for relevant laws and regulations and illegal subcontracting and subcontracting of projects.

30 companies on the blacklist

According to a survey conducted by reporters, among the 30 enterprises, in addition to the three central enterprises mentioned above, six enterprises including Hebei Zhongjian Engineering Co., Ltd., Liaoning Dongyi Construction (Group) Co., Ltd., and Inner Mongolia Guangsha Jian'an Engineering Co., Ltd. have state-owned assets. Longhai Construction Group Co., Ltd., Nantong Daxin Engineering Co., Ltd., Xinpu Construction Group, Linzhou Eight Construction Group Engineering Co., Ltd., Qixiang Construction Group, etc. are large private enterprises and local leading enterprises, while nearly half of the listed enterprises are local small and medium-sized private enterprises.

Subcontracting and subcontracting are common

From the specific cases on the "blacklist" of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development, the illegal and irregular behaviors of listed companies can be divided into two categories: one is in the field of construction, such as substandard steel strength, excessive spacing between steel bars, and concrete void defects; Secondly, in the field of construction market, there are illegal and irregular behaviors such as subcontracting, subcontracting, and engineering corruption. Industry insiders say that the root cause of construction quality problems lies not only in the construction companies themselves, but also in the huge profit "black hole" of the construction market.

The reporter's investigation found that behaviors such as affiliation, subcontracting, and subcontracting are common in reality. Among the 30 cases on the "blacklist" of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development, 12 cases involve illegal subcontracting, subcontracting, affiliation, and even lending qualifications. A senior head of a construction company in the industry admitted to reporters that the phenomenon of "first level enterprises winning bids, second level enterprises entering the market, and third level enterprises constructing" is still the "rule" in the industry today.

The typical case provided by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development to reporters also shows that the chaos in the bidding market is an important reason for the frequent occurrence of engineering quality accidents. In the bidding process, bidding companies often lower the cost in order to ultimately win. For profit reasons, companies will further reduce costs after receiving projects, making it difficult to guarantee quality.