【Question of the Week】【Civil Engineering Version 20170727】

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Participation reward: 2 Wealth. Correct reward: 6 Wealth Jia Provinces Guanghua Construction Company bid on a large-scale infrastructure construction project in Province B in 2005. In order to succeed in competition, Guanghua Construction Company offered favorable terms of covering the construction costs itself. On May 12, 2005, Guanghua Construction Company received the award notice from the project owner. On February 3, 2006, the project owner argued that Guanghua Construction Company’s advance of construction funds violated the Notice on Strictly Prohibiting Capital-Driven Contracting in Engineering Projects issued by the Ministry of Construction, the **Planning Commission, and the Ministry of Finance on June 4, 1996, and requested that the contract be treated as invalid. Regarding the reasons put forward by the project owner to declare the contract invalid, which of the following statements is correct? ( ) 　　A. The reasons are valid; the contract is invalid. B. The reasons are not valid; the contract is valid. C. The reasons are not valid; the validity of the contract is pending. D. The reasons are not valid; whether the contract is valid depends on whether the completed work meets the required quality standards. Correct answer: B