The Ministry of Construction, in an effort to ensure and improve the quality of construction projects nationwide, will promote the application of a new industry standard, officials said late last week.

The new standard, the electronic level metre for construction, was jointly developed by the Huxingyu Sensing Technology Company Ltd, a leading firm from Central China's Hunan Province, Beijing-based Tsinghua University and other State research institutes. Yang Luyu, director of the ministry's Standard and Quotas Department, said the new standard, which could provide more accurate measuring, had been adopted as a compulsory standard in construction measurement.

( China Daily 24-02-2003)