Research On The Issues Of Provincial Scenic Area System Planning

China's existing scenic area management system can be summarized as "state owned, local management". Scenic Area at all levels is administrated by the district administrative division. Because of the territorial restrictions and local interest's differentiation, there are many problems in the protection, utilization and management of scenic area: redundant construction, bad competition, failure of effective integration of scenic resources in deferent administrative region, and so on. Hence there is an urgent need for a higher level and broader vision of planning which can coordinate and integrate a certain regional scenic area. And then the provincial Scenic Area Planning system came into being. Since 2001, some province owned a large number of scenic resources, such as Guizhou Province and Fujian Province, took the lead in conducting the provincial Scenic Area Planning system. Up to now, four provinces Scenic Area planning have been validated and announced to public. Several other provinces have completed or under preparation process.Based on the analysis of former products, this paper discussed the feasibility, necessity, limitations, essential features and elevation of the effectiveness of the planning and made analysis of the theories and the new technology applicability in the provincial Scenic Area Planning system which had been proven effective. Combined with the analysis of the Planning examples, the article also make a detailed explanation of the main problems needed to be solved and main contents in provincial scenic areas system planning.The paper focused on the following issues:1 .the role, necessity and feasibility of essential features, limitations of Provincial Scenic Area planning and their solutions, legal status of the identification, evaluation criteria, and the establishment of procedures to enhance the scientific planning and effectiveness.2. Evaluation of scenic resources, regional assessment of the conditions of development, scenic spots system construction, external support system with the relevant planning and coordination in provincial Scenic Area plans.3. Use the maturer relevant planning experiences as references to explore the theory and technology of the new provincial Scenic Area planning system.4. Analyze and interpretation of related Examples.