On August 25, 2014, China’s Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued interim measures on the lifetime quality responsibility of the project heads of a building’s five responsible parties. After a building passes inspection, the developer must fix a permanent sign in a prominent place on it. The sign names the developer, the surveyor, the designer, the builder and the supervisor, and gives the name of each one’s project head.
These project heads are responsible for the quality of the building for its whole design life.