All rights reservedSun, Ying2024-08-232024-08-232016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1892Proceedings 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 southBased on the special institution and development process, the urban-rural relations in China are very particular. The rural areas play different roles in different stage of urbanization and the status of rural areas changed a lot. Since the launching of reform and opening-up program over 30 years ago, China has quickened the pace of urbanization, with urban population increasing from 170 million to some 700 million and numbers of cities increasing to 657 in 20111. In 2011, the urbanization rate in China exceeded 50% and China entered “the urban era”. However, while the cities developed rapidly, the rural areas fell into stagnation and recession. With the decline of the rural economy and the large-scale migration to cities, large numbers of villages disappeared or transformed. Since 2003 the central government focus on the rural problems, which gradually becomes a hot topic these year. It is an urgent need for urban planning discipline to expand its research field to rural development and planning. Following the central policies such as “Coordinated Urban-rural development”, “Construction of Socialist New Countryside”, the practice of rural planning flourished. Many urban planners are engaged in various rural planning practice. What are the features of the rural planning in the past decade in China? What are the types, the targets, and the content of rural plans? What does the rural planning contribute to the development of the urban-rural relations? These are the objects of this study.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject1648-1649