SAMR (SAC) recently released GB/T 43214-2023, Code of practice for territorial and spatial planning at provincial-level, the first of its kind, which will be implemented on January 1, 2024. Based on the Guidelines on Territorial and Spatial Planning at Provincial Level (Trial) released in 2020, the national standard summarizes and absorbs the practical experience, draw from the pilot achievements, and organically integrates various achievements and technical specifications, providing technical support for regulating the territorial and spatial planning at provincial level and its implementation and supervision.
The standard defines the top-level design and overall requirements of territorial and spatial planning at provincial level, covering the whole-domain territory and space including land and sea, urban and rural areas, as well as the aboveground and underground areas. It makes clear the positioning, tasks, and principles of making the territorial and spatial planning at provincial level, and specifies the main content including the plan making and requirements on achievements. Following the principles of integrating problem orientation and goal orientation, the standard studies and judges the risks and challenges brought by the safety, utilization and quality of space and other problems such as climate change and population change through resource and environment carrying capacity, territorial and spatial development suitability, as well as the assessment of territorial and spatial utilization and its risk. Combined with the actual conditions of different provinces, it also stipulates the overall positioning and main goals of territory and space at provincial level, and further refines the path and strategy of realizing these goals. To improve the planning in a targeted, scientific and operable way, the standard highlights the coordination in the territorial and spatial planning at provincial level.
Source: China Standardization Magazine, Supplement Issue in 2023
