Main Responsibilities of GuangZhou Municipal Land Resources and Housing Administrative Bureau:
1. Executing the State, provincial and municipal laws, regulations, rules and policies on the administration of land, minerals, housing and mapping; formulating and implementing local administration regulations, rules and policies.
2. Organizing to draw up and implement overall plans for land exploitation and plans for state-owned land; organizing land survey and collecting land statistics; drawing up plans for land development, exploitation, renovation and protection and plans for the re-opening up of the deserted land; coordinating and supervising the enforcement of these plans; setting up a sound and dynamic system in supervising land information.
3. Managing land requisition, allocation, selling, transferring and changing; collecting funds for selling the right of land use; auditing construction land projects and submitting these projects to higher authorities for approval; drawing up and implementing plans for construction land and quota for all kinds of land use; managing standby land and auction market for construction land.
4. Conducting overall management on the land and housing administration and registration in both rural and urban areas; being responsible for the confirmation, transfer, register and issuance of the license for land and house property rights; investigating and arbitrating disputes in the housing property right and in compensation for resettlement.
5. Supervising land and mineral resources; examining and dealing with according to law cases of illegal land exploitation and illegal mining.
6. Managing pre-sales of commercial housing, real estate transferring, renting, mortgage, and house exchanging and estate appraisal; grading land and setting benchmark price for each grade, fixing land price and resetting prices for all kinds of housing; organizing and managing the transferring of right of use of state-owned land and estimating estate price, which is involved with state taxes and fees; examining and approving of the qualification of real estate agency and its working staff; administrating and supervising real estate market; handling cases of illegal estate deals and of illegal land use; collecting related taxes and fees in real estate.
7. Managing urban house resettling, repairing, safety appraising and termite prevention; drawing up and implementing plans for crumbling house transforming, resettling and repairing.
8. Administrating estate property management. Inspecting and supervising law and regulation enforcement in estate property management. Administrating house (including residential quarters) property management.
9. Managing standardization of place names; dealing with naming, renaming and cremating place names according to legal procedures.
10. Managing mineral resources; drawing up plans for exploration and exploitation of mineral resources; registering and issuing license for mining within the limits of law and regulation; collecting compensation for mineral resources. Supervising and managing mining, geological environment, land opening-up and reforestation according to law; coordinating and dealing with disputes in mining rights and geological exploration; administrating geological profession; managing municipal geological exploration funds; managing groundwater resource with hydrological administration department.
11. Promoting science and technology development and information exchange, popularization, education and foreign affairs in land, minerals, housing and mapping; organizing training and further education for workers of the industry.
12. Formulating plans and technology standard for mapping; organizing and managing basic mapping, mapping for administrative region boundaries and other great mapping projects; administrating mapping industry according to law.
13. Administrating the Municipal Residential Construction Office and the Residential System Reform Office of the leading group.
14. Instructing professional work of land, minerals, housing and mapping of governments at the district and county level.
15. Undertaking other tasks assigned by the Municipal Government and the related departments at higher levels.
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