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Urban–rural integration and coordinated development have become strategic tasks for contemporary China. An increasing number of studies have focused on rural areas from different perspectives. The rural revitalization strategy, announced during the 19th CPC National Congress, tasked scholars in urban and rural studies to increase their focus on the development of rural regions. This paper identifies gaps in existing research on China’s rural planning in three areas, namely the relevant legislation, governance mechanisms, and technological means. First, previous research failed to clarify how different levels of legislation impact development in rural areas, resulting in a lack of clarity concerning the legal foundations of rural planning. Second, relevant research fails to highlight the self-governing characteristics of rural communities. There is a lack of literature on the process that occurs between the delegation of planning and the implementation of these plans. Consequently, conflicts and contradictions between local autonomy and administrative interventions are neglected. Third, current rural planning generally adopts the urban planning methods of investigation, study design and formulation; however, it disregards the attributes specific to rural planning, especially where the two factors mentioned above are concerned. This paper contributes a critical approach to research in rural planning. It identifies that coherent and reasonable rural planning methodologies can only be developed through a joint consideration of the legislation, governance mechanisms and planning technologies. This type of approach can accommodate the current condition of urban–rural relations in China and lay a foundation for rural development through the integration of planning research and practice.
Notes *This research project is funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Approval Number: 51778436).
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Jiehao, Z., Fan, Y., Tianyang, Z. (2021). An Argument Concerning Rural Planning in Contemporary China from the Perspectives of Law, Institutional Practice and Implementation Methods. In: Li, W., Hu, L., Cao, J. (eds) Human-Centered Urban Planning and Design in China: Volume I . GeoJournal Library, vol 129. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83856-0_17
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