Preventing Environmental Risks …
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plans are intertwined horizontally and vertically to form a complex planning system.
With continued economic and social progress, the spatial planning system in China
is seeing more and more problems, and its scientificity and solemnity have been
challenged by the public, thus giving rise to contradictions and unwanted issues
that impose constraints on the healthy and sustainable development of the national
economy. At the lower administrative level with smaller room for maneuver, due to
the lack of connection and coordination between departmental plans, planning of the
same specific space often results in conflicts of control and overlapped controlled
places, as well as reduced urban management efficiency, waste of land resources,
and environmental destruction.
The national governance system and governance capabilities are a mutually
complementary organic whole. Only with a good national governance system can
governance capabilities be improved, and only by improving national governance
capabilities can the effectiveness of the national governance system be brought into
full play. Space governance directly or indirectly affects the structure and process of
governmental, market and social governance through a series of institutional arrangements that control and guide the elements of territorial space, so that it can fully reflect
China’s optimized space development pattern while advancing its strategic intentions
and values of sustainable economic and social development. On November 12, 2013,
the Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Important Issues of Comprehensively Deepening Reform adopted at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC
Central Committee took “advancing the modernization of China’s system and capability for governance” as the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform,
and went all out to achieve this lofty goal. This signifies that China’s spatial planning system will be further integrated, spatial contradictions and conflicts between
different plans effectively resolved, and the spatial scope more coordinated and
unified. What’s more, the collaborative governance that entails planning in various
fields will enhance the role of spatial planning in space development and protection,
and provide, for national development goals, guarantee for the implementation of
spatial planning, as well as ecological protection, environmental management and
control, and measures for preventing risks.
3 Spatial Planning and Prevention of Environmental Risks
With the former Ministry of Land and Resources as the backbone, the 2018 institutional reform integrated the planning, resource management and other functions
of relevant departments to establish the Ministry of Natural Resources, which exercises the responsibilities of supervising spatial planning and managing the use of
all territorial space, including centralized management of natural resources such as
mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes and grasslands. As the basis of spatial
development, territorial space planning in a new era is an important way for China
to promote ecological civilization, fully coordinate economic and social development, rationally and efficiently allocate resources, and coordinate economic and
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plans are intertwined horizontally and vertically to form a complex planning system.
With continued economic and social progress, the spatial planning system in China
is seeing more and more problems, and its scientificity and solemnity have been
challenged by the public, thus giving rise to contradictions and unwanted issues
that impose constraints on the healthy and sustainable development of the national
economy. At the lower administrative level with smaller room for maneuver, due to
the lack of connection and coordination between departmental plans, planning of the
same specific space often results in conflicts of control and overlapped controlled
places, as well as reduced urban management efficiency, waste of land resources,
and environmental destruction.
The national governance system and governance capabilities are a mutually
complementary organic whole. Only with a good national governance system can
governance capabilities be improved, and only by improving national governance
capabilities can the effectiveness of the national governance system be brought into
full play. Space governance directly or indirectly affects the structure and process of
governmental, market and social governance through a series of institutional arrangements that control and guide the elements of territorial space, so that it can fully reflect
China’s optimized space development pattern while advancing its strategic intentions
and values of sustainable economic and social development. On November 12, 2013,
the Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Important Issues of Comprehensively Deepening Reform adopted at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC
Central Committee took “advancing the modernization of China’s system and capability for governance” as the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform,
and went all out to achieve this lofty goal. This signifies that China’s spatial planning system will be further integrated, spatial contradictions and conflicts between
different plans effectively resolved, and the spatial scope more coordinated and
unified. What’s more, the collaborative governance that entails planning in various
fields will enhance the role of spatial planning in space development and protection,
and provide, for national development goals, guarantee for the implementation of
spatial planning, as well as ecological protection, environmental management and
control, and measures for preventing risks.
3 Spatial Planning and Prevention of Environmental Risks
With the former Ministry of Land and Resources as the backbone, the 2018 institutional reform integrated the planning, resource management and other functions
of relevant departments to establish the Ministry of Natural Resources, which exercises the responsibilities of supervising spatial planning and managing the use of
all territorial space, including centralized management of natural resources such as
mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes and grasslands. As the basis of spatial
development, territorial space planning in a new era is an important way for China
to promote ecological civilization, fully coordinate economic and social development, rationally and efficiently allocate resources, and coordinate economic and