A sound business environment is the "soil" for enterprises to survive and develop, an important "soft power" for regional competition, and a "hard support" for promoting high-quality economic and social development. In recent years, Wuwei City has focused on the difficulties, bottlenecks, and pain points in full life-cycle project management, deeply advanced the reform of the approval system for engineering construction projects, effectively integrated approval resources, continuously optimized approval processes, reduced approval time limits, and comprehensively improved project approval efficiency and commencement efficiency, making project construction approval "slimmer" and faster.

"The handling process is now simpler, more convenient, and more efficient. We no longer have to run back and forth between multiple departments, which has accelerated the commencement speed of enterprises and provided great convenience to them!" Tang Xingyu, a staff member of Wuwei Jinzhao Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., told reporters that two weeks ago he had just submitted the Jinzhao Third District construction project to the service hall of the Municipal Government Administrative Service Center, and it has now officially started construction.

Walking into the engineering construction project approval area in the Municipal Government Administrative Service Center, "one window" provides integrated services, "one form" consolidates application materials, and the approval process is "handled online." This means enterprises only need to "make one trip" and, after submitting complete materials, can go online to check the handling progress at any time.

"Technical consultation on planning schemes has zero threshold, approval services are zero-distance, and Wuwei's investment environment is very good!" praised the person in charge of the biomass boiler renovation project of the public rental housing community in Yongdong Village, Tumen Town, Gulang County.

Project construction is an important lever for high-quality development. Accelerating project implementation and helping projects start and complete early cannot be separated from improving the quality and efficiency of approval. Implementing "one window" service and management is precisely a microcosm of Wuwei City's proactive innovation in engineering construction approval, striving for excellence and efficiency, and using convenient and efficient approval to help optimize the business environment. In recent years, Wuwei City has comprehensively promoted the "1+X" approval model of "one department leading, parallel approval, one-window acceptance, and time-limited completion," continuously advanced "integration of multiple reviews" and "integration of multiple certificates," established an engineering construction project approval area, strengthened the "one-window acceptance" function of comprehensive windows, improved the "front desk acceptance, back office review" mechanism, and had comprehensive service windows uniformly receive and issue documents, further reducing approval time limits and truly realizing "enter one door and handle multiple matters."

"For projects where the land acquisition entity is relatively clear, we make full use of the 'blank period' during land approval, intervene in advance in the preliminary approval work of the project, and first issue simulated certificates such as the construction land planning permit and engineering planning permit. After the land procedures are formally obtained, the 'simulated approval' documents are converted into formal documents, effectively solving the problem of 'projects waiting for procedures,'" said He Chong, a staff member at the Municipal Development and Reform Commission window of the Municipal Government Administrative Service Center.

The speed of project implementation benefits not only from innovative approval models but also from approval services taking "one step earlier." Wuwei City actively promotes "drawing review exemption" and "simulated approval," taking the lead in the province to explore exemption from construction drawing review, formulating the Wuwei City engineering construction project construction drawing review exemption list, and implementing classified and tiered review of construction drawing design documents for housing and municipal engineering. For eligible projects in nine categories—including factory and warehouse buildings, decoration and renovation, landscaping, municipal engineering, road maintenance, and old residential community renovation—construction drawings are exempt from review, making project construction "time-saving and cost-saving." Since the beginning of this year, more than 30 projects, including the Lijingshengyuan Building Materials Warehousing and Logistics Construction Project and the Liangzhou District 2023 Old Residential Community Renovation Project, have enjoyed the drawing review exemption policy, saving about 1.3 million yuan in construction drawing review costs, and the average construction cycle of projects has been shortened by more than 30 days. Four projects, including the Wuwei East Station Comprehensive Passenger Transport Hub and Parking Lot and the Liangzhou District No. 13 Kindergarten, have handled approval procedures through the "simulated approval" model, saving an average of about 30 days in approval time and realizing "early commencement, early construction, and early production" for project construction.

"We will continue to focus on the needs of enterprises and projects, rely on the engineering construction project approval management system to continue promoting 'full online handling' and 'approval without meeting,' simplify approval processes, and explore optimizing, deepening, and refining approval services, maximizing the merging of stages and reduction of time limits, promoting early project implementation and early commencement, and helping Wuwei City's business environment improve in level and reach a higher stage," said Zhang Dong, head of the engineering construction project approval system reform at the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau.