Geographical thoughts on the relationship between ‘Beautiful China’ and land spatial planning

doi:10.1007/s11442-020-1751-6

Abstract

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The concept of ‘Beautiful China’ is a new goal of ecological construction in the new era of socialism and aims to meet the needs of people as they strive for a better life. National land spatial planning is one major component of the Chinese state’s overall planning for various spatial types. The concept of ‘Beautiful China’ is thus a leading goal of Chinese development in the second centenary. The background of this concept aims for ‘ecological beauty’ as well as the combined beauty of ‘economy-politics-culture-society-ecology.’ The construction of ‘Beautiful China’ therefore necessitates a differentiated evaluation index system that is built on the basis of local conditions. This concept is intimately related to land spatial planning and the idea of Beautiful China guides an important direction for this planning which itself provides an important mechanism and spatial guarantee for construction. The establishment of land spatial planning nevertheless needs to strengthen further discussion of the regional system of human-land relationship, point axis system, main functional division, sustainable development, resources and environmental carrying capacity as well as new urbanization, and the rural multi-system. The aim of this paper is to summarize current thinking in land spatial planning, scientifically analyze the natural geographical conditions, the socioeconomic development, the interrelationship of the land space, plan the goal, vision and path of land space, encourage the public to participate in and carry out dynamic evaluation, build an intelligent system platform for land and spatial planning to realize the goal of ‘Beautiful China’ from a geographical perspective. And they can also present key ideas relating to the compilation and implementation of land spatial planning.

Key words: Beautiful China, land spatial planning, ecological civilization, modernization of space governance, geographical science

CHEN Mingxing, LIANG Longwu, WANG Zhenbo, ZHANG Wenzhong, YU Jianhui, LIANG Yi. Geographical thoughts on the relationship between ‘Beautiful China’ and land spatial planning[J].Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2020, 30(5): 705-723.

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Category	1949-early 21st century	The new era with socialist characteristics
Category	1949-early 21st century	New goals	New changes
Facing different needs	Mainly solve problems to do with food, clothing, and a prosperous life	The desire for a better life	Eat well and enjoy a high-quality life
Developmental stage succession	Emphasis on industrial civilization	Realizing ecological civilization	Respecting nature and that clear waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. Adhering to green development
Upgrading of development goals	Focus on economic growth and providing a richer material basis	Constructing ‘Beautiful China’	Multi-dimensional development and advocating people-oriented economic, social and ecological goals
Changing developmental thought	High-speed economic growth in all regions	Different regional functions in regions	Adapting to local conditions and seeking optimized, key, restricted, and prohibited development
Changing spatial governance	Strip and multi-head management of land and space	Overall planning and management of land and space	Overall planning of ‘production-living- ecological’ spaces to realize the modernization of space management