China's Urban Planning System And Its Institutional Innovation

China is witnessing the rapid development of urbanization. Urbanization will boost the dramatic changes in China's economical, social and spatial structures. Since the future period would be crucial for China and the urban development would be faced to the unprecedented complexity and contradiction, urban planning system has to be reformed and innovated so as to meet the needs of the new social and economic situations.Based on the systematic retrospection upon the development of urban planning in the past five decades, this dissertation probes into the internal and external environment for the transformation and innovation of planning system. Through comparative studies on the planning experiences of some western countries, it carries out a rational research and sort-out planning system from the aspects of the function, technical system, administration, inspection, legal system, institutions, etc., with a reference to institutional economics, public administration, administrative law and other related social sciences. The author thus discusses the urban planning system suitable for socialist market economy, and further puts forward the framework and direction for the system's development and innovation under this condition, for the sake of providing references for reforming and perfecting urban planning.This article clarifies the principles for China's urban planning under new conditions, pointing out that we have to change our viewpoint and have a correct understandings of the role and function of urban planning in market economy so as to building up its capacity in comprehensive coordination; Secondly, we should establish and improve our spatial planning system and boost the innovation of urban planning system; Thirdly, we should set up the framework for urban planning administration with separating decision-making from implementation, and then establishing and promoting the development control system on the basis of general rules and exploring the new administration system; Fourthly, we ought to further our construction of legal system for urban planning, drawing up urban planning regulations and perfecting related laws as quickly as possible; Finally, it is suggested to emphasize and strengthen the research work for urban planning, enhancing the ethical moral and overall quality of professional planners.This dissertation is composed of four parts with ten chapters. The first part is about the theoretical research of system and its innovation, serving as the necessary theoretical preparation for the analytical work of the whole thesis.The second part is fundamental research (from Chapter 2 to 4), acting as the preconditioned and background research for the core of the thesis. The retrospective analysis on the development of urban planning system since the year 1949, the analysis on the environment and driving factors for the innovation of urban planning system and the comparative analysis on administrative system of urban planning could be found in this part.The third part is the core of the whole thesis (from Chapter 5 to 9). Based on the previous research, the author points out certain aspects related to the innovation of urban planning system, including the innovation of organizational system, administrative system, implementation system, legal system as well as supporting system.In the fourth part, some suggestions for boosting urban planning system innovation (Chapter 10) are put forward, in order to offer references for the planning practices.