Information date: 30 September 2026 — On 5 June 2025, People's Daily reported that a Central Military Commission order signed by Xi Jinping released the Regulation on the Construction of Military Facilities, covering planning, survey and design, construction, acceptance and protection of military facilities. The rules address restricted construction and activity near military sites and impose controls on surveying, imagery and personnel access, so projects close to such areas face site-level checks rather than a general industry ban. Knowing that statement is not enough for an operating, research or compliance decision. The team must first establish who and what it applies to, how the effect reaches the real process, and which evidence would justify action.
Verified facts and scope
On 5 June 2025, People's Daily reported that a Central Military Commission order signed by Xi Jinping released the Regulation on the Construction of Military Facilities, covering planning, survey and design, construction, acceptance and protection of military facilities. The rules address restricted construction and activity near military sites and impose controls on surveying, imagery and personnel access, so projects close to such areas face site-level checks rather than a general industry ban.
Applies to construction, survey, mapping, drone imaging, solar, wind, telecom tower and data-centre projects located in or near military facility protection zones, and to teams with foreign personnel or overseas equipment. Confirm first: whether the site falls inside a protection zone, whether geospatial survey data will be produced, who enters the site, and where site photos and coordinates are stored or uploaded.
How the effect reaches operations
Construction, surveying and imaging around military sites can reveal location, layout and structural information, so controls attach to the combination of location, data and people rather than to the project's commercial nature. Because approval is administered locally, a project can be entirely lawful as a business and still be blocked at the site-access stage.
Typical misjudgements: treating the contract as 'just construction' with no security dimension, using drones or satellite imagery for site survey, uploading site photos to overseas cloud drives or project management systems, and letting foreign engineers enter without access screening. These can be treated as breaches of military facility protection and geospatial information rules.
For “China's New Military Facilities Construction Regulation: Site Data Handling and Access Checks for Project Teams”, official rules or published findings, direct evidence from the relevant product or process, and assumptions that remain untested should be recorded separately. A broad source defines the external boundary; it does not replace batch records, protocols, contracts, labels or direct observations.
Decision
Screen the site before bidding. If it falls in a protection zone, obtain written confirmation from the local military organ and natural resources authority before mobilising. Where surveying or imagery is needed, use a qualified domestic survey firm and store data under classified-handling rules. If access cannot be confirmed, relocate the site or withdraw from the tender.
Implementation checklist
- Plot the project boundary against known military protection zones before bidding.
- Replace drone and overseas-cloud site workflows with approved domestic survey methods.
- Screen every site entrant and segregate site data by nationality and system.
- Assign one decision owner, one implementation owner and a dated review point for “China's New Military Facilities Construction Regulation: Site Data Handling and Access Checks for Project Teams”.
- For “China's New Military Facilities Construction Regulation: Site Data Handling and Access Checks for Project Teams”, archive the source page, access date, applicable population or entity, and internal evidence both supporting and opposing the current decision.
- When a rule, formulation, supplier, protocol or observed result changes, reopen only the affected question in “China's New Military Facilities Construction Regulation: Site Data Handling and Access Checks for Project Teams”.
Evidence and review
For “China's New Military Facilities Construction Regulation: Site Data Handling and Access Checks for Project Teams”, start with one real case rather than an abstract checklist. Record the input version, responsible owner, start time, observed result and stop condition. If the team cannot complete “Plot the project boundary against known military protection zones before bidding.” with current evidence, it should not expand the process to more products, patients, suppliers or markets. The first review should focus only on facts capable of changing the decision.
The second control follows “Replace drone and overseas-cloud site workflows with approved domestic survey methods.”. Keep the source date, applicable population or entity, deadline, cost effect and owner in the same evidence file. A wording preference does not justify a new version. A repeated discrepancy, an unsupported health claim or a regulatory mismatch does: correct that point and hold release until the evidence is available.
After “Screen every site entrant and segregate site data by nationality and system.”, compare the intended outcome with what actually happened. Apply the same success criteria to each later expansion. If only one number, date or responsibility changes, update that field and the affected conclusion instead of recreating evidence that remains valid. This keeps the decision traceable without turning review into an open-ended rewrite cycle.
Limits of the conclusion
This news summary is not a security, legal or surveying opinion; protection zones, access procedures and data rules are site-specific and must be confirmed with the competent authorities.
