Current situation, problems and countermeasures on general contracting in China

General contracting (GC) is an internationally accepted organization pattern of project construction. Since Chinese government encouraged the construction industry to develop GC enterprises in early 1980s, it has made great progress. This paper first discusses the current situation of GC in China, and several GC approaches: EPC/Turnkey, design-build (D-B), procurement-construction (P-C), etc. Then, it analyzes some problems which exist in the development of GC, including unreasonableness of GC enterprises' organizational structure, lag in project management (PM) techniques, lack of high-quality PM talents, lack of government policies, insufficiency of legislation of GC, lowness of market identity degree, and so on. According to above-mentioned problems, the countermeasures about the development of GC are studied, including external environment construction of enterprises and approaches to intensifying enterprises own strength.