Promoting efficiency and expediency of approval process for major infrastructure projects

Abstract

There is continuing demand for more and better major infrastructure to achieve sustainable high quality growth in China. Approval process of major infrastructure projects is vital to the successful construction. Ineffective and inefficient decisions lead to irretrievable results, long duration, great financial loss and waste. Therefore, conducting a research in the approval process of the major infrastructure is quite necessary. This paper is aimed at finding the shortages in the approval process of the major infrastructure in China. Comparative case studies of Australia and China were adopted in this research and documentary analysis was employed as the supplementary to facilitate the analysis. Recommendations are provided for achieving greater uniformity and efficiency in approval process for major infrastructure. The solutions have practical implications for approval process of general major infrastructure projects in China.