All rights reservedChen, HaisuYang, TianrenZhang, Yisha2024-08-232024-08-232016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1910Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southChongming, the third largest island in the north-east Shanghai in China, has strategic significances in Shanghai’s regional development offering a large amount of greenland and farmland. With the completion of a new bridge in Chongming which connects Shanghai Central City and Jiangsu Province, the local government plan to turn Chongming from a rural area to an urban area for creating more industry revenue. Now it is facing with contradiction between ecological protection and industry development, between urbanization and localization, especially when it claimed to be a world-class eco-island since years before. All the villages in the world are facing the same difficult choice: to be a rural area with decreasing population and depression or to be an urban area by destroying the natural resources. Yingdong Village is located in the eastern part of Chongming county, which is built by reclamation during the 1980s-1990s. Nowadays, it aims to be an ecological village with great development in agricultural and tourism industries. It is awarded as ‘national ecological exemplary countryside’ in the mid-2000s. It is an excellent reference for other villages in Chongming or even in China. For a better understanding of it, the authors take interviews and field research in Yingdong Village. Hence, this paper gives a case study of Yingdong Village from three parts.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject1582-1584