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(1) The "Railway Construction Engineering Survey and Design Management Regulations" was passed at the 14th Departmental Conference on June 3, 2025, and is hereby promulgated. It will take effect on September 1, 2025.
(2) **Chapter 1: General Provisions**
(3) Article 1: These regulations aim to standardize railway construction engineering survey and design activities, ensure the quality of survey and design, improve the level of survey and design, promote the high-quality development of railway construction, and ensure people's lives and property safety.
(4) Article 2: These regulations apply to survey and design activities and supervision management work related to railway construction engineering within the territory of the People's Republic of China.
(5) Article 3: Survey and design in railway construction engineering refer to the activities of investigating, analyzing, and evaluating the geological and geographical conditions of the construction site, as well as compiling survey and design documents.
(6) **Chapter 2: Survey and Design Procedures**
(7) Article 9: Survey and design activities for railway construction engineering must strictly follow the basic construction procedures, and the principle of "survey first, design later, and construction last" must be followed.
(8) Article 10: Survey activities should be conducted before design work begins, and detailed survey work should be conducted in areas with complex geological conditions.
(9) **Chapter 3: Qualifications and Contract Management**
(10) Article 14: Units engaging in survey and design activities for railway construction engineering must have the necessary qualifications and be within the scope of their permitted qualifications.
(11) Article 15: Clients cannot assign survey and design work to unqualified units, and units cannot transfer or sub-contract survey and design work to other units.
(12) **Chapter 4: Survey Management**
(13) Article 22: Geological survey for railway construction engineering must be comprehensive.
(14) Article 23: Survey units must prepare a survey plan before starting work, and the plan must be approved by the client.
(15) Article 25: Units undertaking geological survey monitoring must have the necessary qualifications and not have any affiliation with the survey unit.
(16) **Chapter 5: Design Management**
(17) Article 29: Design for railway construction engineering must be in line with national development plans and must be conducted in accordance with the approved survey results.
(18) Article 30: Design units must consider economic and social needs, technical feasibility, and investment when selecting the design scheme.
(19) **Chapter 6: Survey and Design Management**
(20) Article 36: Construction units must provide necessary working conditions for survey and design, ensure a reasonable survey and design period, and provide authentic and reliable original data.
(21) Article 37: Survey and design files must be prepared in accordance with national development plans, project approval documents, and engineering construction standards.
(22) **Chapter 7: Change Design**
(23) Article 44: Change design refers to modifications made to the design documents after the initial design has been approved.
(24) Article 45: Construction units must manage change design strictly in accordance with regulations and must ensure that the modifications do not compromise the safety and quality of the project.
(25) **Chapter 8: Supervision and Management**
(26) Article 48: Supervision and management of survey and design activities for railway construction engineering include: ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, verifying the qualifications and personnel of survey and design units, and reviewing the execution of survey and design procedures.
(27) Article 49: Any individual or organization can report, complain, or file a complaint about survey and design activities that violate the law.
(28) **Chapter 9: Legal Responsibilities**
(29) Article 50: Any unit or individual that violates these regulations will be subject to penalties as specified in the relevant laws and regulations.
(30) Article 51: Construction units that fail to inspect and approve survey plans or verify survey results will be fined between 5,000 to 10,000 yuan.
(31) Article 52: Survey and design units that fail to prepare survey plans, do not cooperate with geological survey monitoring, or authorize unqualified personnel to conduct survey and design work will be fined between 5,000 to 10,000 yuan.
(32) **Chapter 10: Supplementary Provisions**
(33) Article 55: These regulations do not apply to emergency rescue and disaster relief, or other temporary railway construction engineering survey and design activities.
(34) Article 56: These regulations will take effect on September 1, 2025, and the "Railway Construction Engineering Survey and Design Management Regulations" issued by the Ministry of Railways on January 4, 2006, will be abolished at the same time.