## (3) Facilitating fund raising

In order to facilitate fund raising for construction enterprises, the Regional Construction Business Reinforcement and Financing System was established and has been implemented from November 2008. The content states the promotion of mobilization and construction contracts claiming rights towards public construction owners by the tendering of construction enterprises, including the incomplete parts.

This system enables tendering enterprises to receive finance under the guarantee of public construction contracts claiming rights according to the productivity of business cooperatives or private business operators. It is also a system that enables funding to be received from financial institutions even for the exceeding part of construction productivity through the guarantee of surety corporations and the lessening of the burdens, such as interest, of the tendering construction enterprises.

(4) Promotion of “people production” supporting the production industry

The success of the construction industry depends on how well the technicians perform their abilities and it is an industry supported by “people”. However, the employment environment for workers of the construction industry is severe. In order to smoothly push forward the inheritance of construction technologies and skills in the context of the increased aging of the workforce, it is essential to develop a working environment with fair evaluations for securing and training the excellent personnel who shoulder the future as well as for the workers of the construction industry.

Therefore, support is provided in the form of measures for practical coaching for students by construction technicians, carried out through the cooperation between the regional construction industry and technical high schools; and measures contributing to construction skill inheritance by construction organizations and securing/training construction workers. Their achievements are being popularized.

Furthermore, among the technicians who work on direct production activities on construction sites, the securing, training and utilization of registered key technicians, who possess skills for operation management and coordination and perform key duties, are being pushed forward. The number of registered key technicians was 15,086 (23 position types) as of the end of September 2009 and their utilization in the comprehensive evaluation bidding method is being considered.

## (5) Promotion of the construction industry

The regional groups of small-sized and medium-sized core construction business operators utilized their existing personnel, machinery and materials, and know-how to form a committee by cooperating with different types of industries, such as farming, forestry, tourism, environment, welfare, etc., and autonomous bodies. For planning the revitalization of the construction industry, employment maintenance/expansion and regional invigoration, they also established a construction business for subsidizing the necessary costs of cooperative work related review, trial implementations and businesses supporting regional revitalization. Up to now, 157 businesses have been selected and are being pushed forward. Moreover, the matching of