Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development

Chinese government agency

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Ni Hong

Deputy Ministers responsible

Jiang Wanrong
Dong Jianguo
Qin Haixiang
Wang Hui [zh]

Agency executives

Song Hansong, Leader of Discipline Inspection & Supervision Team
Li Rusheng, Chief Engineer
Yang Baojun, Chief Economist

Parent agencyState CouncilWebsitewww.mohurd.gov.cn

Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development

Simplified Chinese

中华人民共和国住房和城乡建设部

Traditional Chinese

中華人民共和國住房和城鄉建設部

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Zhùfánghé Chéngxiāng Jiànshèbù

MOHURD

Chinese

住建部

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhù Jiànbù

Ministry of Construction

Simplified Chinese

中华人民共和国建设部

Traditional Chinese

中華人民共和國建設部

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Jiànshè Bù

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development is a ministry of the People's Republic of China which provides housing and regulates the state construction activities in mainland China. It was formerly known as the Ministry of Construction (Chinese: 建设部; pinyin: Jiànshèbù).

History

As part of US$586 billion economic stimulus package of November 2008, the government plans to:^[1]

Housing: 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 relief initiatives will be strengthened.

In November 2012, the Ministry established its smart cities pilot program, which became the start of a nationwide smart cities movement.^[2]^: 58–59 From 2013 to 2015, 277 Chinese cities joined the smart cities pilot program.^[2]^: 59 As of 2016, there were approximately 500 smart city projects in China.^[2]^: 59

List of ministers

No.	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Lin Hanxiong (林汉雄)	April 1988	March 1991
2	Hou Jie (侯捷)	March 1991	March 1998
3	Yu Zhengsheng	March 1998	November 2001
4	Wang Guangtao (汪光焘)	November 2001	March 2008
5	Jiang Weixin	March 2008	June 2014
6	Chen Zhenggao	June 2014	June 2017
7	Wang Menghui	June 2017	March 2022
8	Ni Hong	June 2022	Incumbent

References

^ "China plans 10 major steps to spark growth as fiscal, monetary policies ease_English_Xinhua". news.xinhuanet.com. Archived from the original on November 13, 2008.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hu, Richard (2023). Reinventing the Chinese City. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-21101-7.