Research On Public Participation In Decision Making Of Municipal Construction Projects

Engineering is one of the major material supporters of modern civilization and social development. If the project is completed in good condition, both the contemporary and future generations will get benefits from it. But on the contrary, natural ecological system and social system may cause serious negative impact in failure projects, especially in the major construction projects.Municipal Engineering is the basic construction of the country, is the essential material basis for the survival and development of the city, it is the basic condition for improving the living standards of the people and the opening to the outside world.Project decisions, as the core link to its construction processes, have the complexity and difficulty, because many areas such as technology, economy, environment and society will get involved in them. There are many problems in the municipal engineering construction region, such as high decision-making errors, flooding image projects, jerry-built projects, high-profile land and real estate projects etc. Introducing public participation in different areas of project decision-makings is not only directly linked to the methods of its participation but to the features of construction projects. The scientific and reasonable way of public participation, can not only guarantee the democratic and scientific project decisions, but also ensure reasonable social public opinion and requirements to realize the substantive participation by the public. Therefore, it is significant for us to study the projects'characteristics, the current problems of public participation in project decision-making, and to make the comparative analysis with foreign public participation so as to promote the steady development of the public participation in municipal construction project decision-making process.