Residents to pick building managers

Property owners in Beijing might soon receive the legal right to select their preferred management company and take control of their community, local government said recently.

Under a new draft legislation, homeowner committees - an elected group of representatives that liaise with their property management company - would be registered as legal companies.

The draft was jointly created by the legal affairs office of the people's government of Beijing municipality and the Beijing municipal commission of housing and urban-rural development.