【2018年整理】城市规划法.doc

City Planning Law of the Peoples Republic of China (Adopted at the 11th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National Peoples Congress on December 26, 1989 and promulgated by Order No.23 of the President of the Peoples Republic of China on December 26, 1989) Contents Chapter I General Provisions Chapter II Formulation of the Plan for a City Chapter III Development of New Urban Areas and Redevelopment of Existing Urban Areas Chapter IV Implementation of City Planning Chapter V Legal Liability Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 This Law is formulated to determine the size of a city, define the orientation of its development, realize the goals of its economic and social development, and map out its plan and carry out its construction on a rational basis in order to meet the needs in socialist modernization. Article 2 This Law shall be observed when the plan for a city is being formulated or implemented, or when construction is being carried out within a planned urban area. Article 3 The term city used in this Law applies to a municipality directly under the Central Government, a city or a town established as one of the administrative divisions of the state. The term a planned urban area used in this Law applies to an urban district, an inner suburban district or an area needed for urban development and construction as one of the administrative divisions of a city. The scope of a planned urban area shall be determined by the peoples government of a city, while compiling a comprehensive plan for the city. Article 4 The state shall guide itself by the principle of strictly controlling the size of large cities and developing medium-sized and small cities to an appropriate extent in the interest of a rational distribution of productive forces and of the population. A large city means one which has a non-agricultural population of 500,000 or more in its urban and inner suburban districts. A