Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction of the People's Republic of China
Encyclopedia
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development is a ministry of the government of the People's Republic of China
which provides housing and regulates the state construction
activities in the country. It was formerly known as the Ministry of Construction .
Government of the People's Republic of China
All power within the government of the People's Republic of China is divided among three bodies: the People's Republic of China, State Council, and the People's Liberation Army . This article is concerned with the formal structure of the state, its departments and their responsibilities...
which provides housing and regulates the state construction
Construction
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...
activities in the country. It was formerly known as the Ministry of Construction .
History
As part of US$586 billion economic stimulus package of November 2008, the government plans to http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/09/content_10332422.htm:- HousingHouseA house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...
: increase the construction of more affordable and low-rent housing and the speeding up of slum demolition, to initiate a pilot program to rebuild rural homes, and a program to encourage nomads to move into permanent housing.
- Rural infrastructure: improve roads and power grids in the countryside, and drinking water, including a huge project to divert water from the South to the North of China. Also, poverty reliefPoverty in ChinaPoverty in People's Republic of China refers to the state of relative or absolute material deprivation that affects hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens, particularly those living in rural areas....
initiatives will be strengthened.
List of Ministers
- Lin Hanxiong (林汉雄)
- Hou Jie (侯捷)
- Yu ZhengshengYu ZhengshengYu Zhengsheng is the current CPC party chief in Shanghai, China, a post which makes him first-in-charge of China's largest city. Formerly the party chief in Hubei, Yu is also concurrently a member of the Politburo, and has been since 2002.- Early life :...
(俞正声): 1998-2001 - Wang Guangtao (汪光焘): 2001-March 2008
- Jiang WeixinJiang WeixinJiang Weixin is the current Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction of the People's Republic of China ....
(姜伟新): March 2008-incumbent