Legal basis: Article 79 1 of the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC)? The employer may conclude a construction project contract with the general contractor, or a survey, design and construction contract with the surveyor, designer and constructor respectively. The employer shall not dismember a construction project that should be completed by one contractor into several parts and contract it to several contractors.
The general contractor or the contractor for survey, design and construction may, with the consent of the employer, entrust part of its contracted projects to a third party. The third party shall be jointly and severally liable to the Employer with the general contractor or the survey, design and construction contractor for the work results it has completed. The contractor shall not subcontract all the construction projects it contracted to a third party or subcontract all the construction projects it contracted to a third party in the name of subcontracting.
It is forbidden for the contractor to subcontract the project to units that do not have the corresponding qualifications. Subcontractors are prohibited from subcontracting contracted projects. The construction of the main structure of the building project must be completed by the contractor himself.
The contents of Article 795 of the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC) generally include project scope, construction period, starting and ending time of intermediate projects, project quality, project cost, delivery time of technical data, material and equipment supply responsibility, allocation and settlement, completion acceptance, quality warranty scope and duration, and mutual cooperation.