A Probe Into China's Project Management In The Market Economy

In the field of project construction in today's China, there is not a guaranteed sound professional and social environment for it's smooth operation and future development due to the imbalanced development of different sections, departments and regions, miscellaneous documents and regulations incompatible to each other, and such irrationalities as cut up the links among departments and regions and local protectionism. With China's WTO entry, however, the architecture industry is now led into an environment where competition sets the tone, which poses accordingly a great challenge to enterprises in the business of project construction. China's late start in project construction makes the management still in its infancy and companies in this field are actually transformed ones with their former selves being designing, supervising or project consulting companies. The management adopted by them is, as a result, a far cry from the project management in a true sense in terms of organization, human resources and specialized knowledge, etc. In view of this, it is a must way to establish a normalized, systemized and specialized atmosphere and a market of fairness, justice, openness and integrity for the healthy, stable and sustainable growth of the profession of project construction in China, This thesis, based upon a probe into the present situation of China's architecture enterprises, the qualification management of professionals concerned and bidding systems in project construction, offers an enumeration of various problems in the tangible architecture market and an interpretation of the necessity and urgency to build up management of project construction in the present framework of management. As it develops, the thesis presents bold assumptions about the principles regarding the quotation competition in project management with as a consideration the method of bidding at rational bottom prices popular at home and abroad, proposing μ_p of a certain guarantee rate as judgment of the rational bottom quotation. Apart from that, it advocates the bottom rational quotation as the principle in bidding, which is expected to make possible transparent project management and an open environment oriented...