| Building trade's one of the mainstay industry in the national economy. Its position becomes more and more important. But with its quick development, there're quantities of disputes from the building contracts. Particularly after our nation started the West Exploitation Strategy and joined in WTO, kinds of major and questionable cases appear from time to time. That perplexes us in the judicial practice. So the study of the building contract makes a real sense.The paper tries inquiring into how to uphold the validity of the building contract, how to calculate the cost of the structure referred to in the contract accurately, how to guarantee the contractor's priority of compensation and other major hot issues. The paper begins with the introduction to the definition of the building contract, its character, its rationality and the character of the building contract disputes. The paper analyses the malpractice in the upholding of the validity of the building contract and the hindering factors in the fulfillment of the contractor's priority of compensation. It puts emphasis on the explanation of the way how to uphold the validity correctly, the principle and the method of the calculation of the cost of the structure and the counter-measure to guarantee the contractor's priority of compensation. It tries inquiring into some issues on how to keep pace with the world. |