Policies for Upgrading Aging Urban Gas Pipelines
To the housing and urban-rural development departments of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government; the Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Management and Beijing Water Authority; the Tianjin Municipal Commission of Urban Management and Tianjin Water Authority; the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Management and Shanghai Water Authority; the Chongqing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Chongqing Economic and Information Commission; the urban management bureaus concerned; the Hainan Provincial Department of Water Resources; and the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps:
Following a further review of local experience in advancing the upgrading and renovation of aging urban gas pipelines, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has compiled the "Second Batch of Replicable Policies and Mechanisms for the Upgrading and Renovation of Urban Gas Pipelines," which is hereby issued for study and implementation in line with local conditions.
The document brings together practices from across China on topics including pipeline inspection and renovation implementation, construction organization, supervision, smart gas platform construction, maintenance team development, funding mechanisms, project approval and pricing, and technical standards and market governance. The scanned document pages are reproduced below for reference; please refer to the official release for authoritative content.
Source: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD), China. Edited summary by Hitelecom based on the reproduced document pages.
