Pudong New Area held a news briefing on Monday on optimizing the market environment and deepening the reform of the approval process of companies’ investment and construction projects, which will shorten the time required from land acquisition to getting the construction permit to 80 calendar days. For land transfer of key industries and functional projects with design proposals, the time from the companies acquiring land to getting construction permit will be shortened to 24 calendar days. For projects without land use design proposals, the time will be shortened to 80 days. Wang Xiaojie, director of Pudong New Area Construction and Transportation Commission, said the reform shows Pudong’s determination to adopt the advanced world standards. The statistics from the World Bank Group show that for countries to get a construction permit, it takes 80.5 and 86 days in the US and the UK respectively, but it takes 241.7 days in China.