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Suzhou City Development Planning And Management Approaches

Original Language Title: 苏州市发展规划管理办法

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Sustained Urban Development Planning Management Approach

(Adopted by the 21st ordinary meeting of the Government of Sus State on 27 January 2014, No. 133 of 24 February 2014, by the Order No. 133 of the People's Government of the State of Sus Republic of Sus Republic of 24 February 2014.

Chapter I General

Article 1 regulates development planning activities, ensures the implementation of development planning, plays the guiding and regulatory role of development planning in economic and social development, and develops this approach in line with the Regulations on Development Planning in the Province of Jangus and relevant legal texts.

Article 2

The approach refers to development planning, which refers to the preparation by the Government of the city, district level (zone) and its relevant sectoral organizations, and to the overall deployment of a strategy for the economic and social development of a given period, within the scope of the national population.

Article 3 Development planning, implementation and related management activities should be consistent with the principles of regulation, coherence, democratic decision-making and scientific management.

Article IV. Governments of the city, district level (zone) should strengthen organizational leadership for development planning, implementation, and introduce sub-categories management.

The executive authorities of the city, district level (zone) development planning are responsible for the coordination and management of development planning and are responsible for the preparation and organization of development planning. Other relevant departments are responsible for the preparation and implementation of relevant dedicated development planning in accordance with their respective responsibilities.

Chapter II System and content of development planning

Article 5

Article 6. Overall planning for the economic and social development of citizens at the municipal, district level (zone) is a comprehensive deployment and overall arrangement for the economic and social development of their nationals and should include the following:

(i) Developments during the previous planning period, environment and conditions for the planning period;

(ii) To guide the concepts, development strategies, development goals, development of ablution and indicator system;

(iii) Key tasks, development priorities and relevant policies;

(iv) Safeguards planned for implementation.

The overall planning period for national economic and social development is usually five years, and it can be seen to be more than 10 years.

Article 7. Annual plans for national economic and social development at the municipal, district level (zone) are an annual arrangement for national economic and social development and should include the following:

(i) Implementation of the previous annual plan and the objectives of the current annual plan;

(ii) The main tasks and policy measures for the economic and social development of the current year;

(iii) Other important matters requiring arrangements.

Article 8

(i) Development status, development environment and conditions for the planning period;

(ii) To guide ideas, development strategies, development goals;

(iii) Key tasks, development priorities and relevant policies;

(iv) Safeguards planned for implementation;

(v) Planning needs to be clear other elements.

Specific development planning is divided into specific development planning and general dedicated development planning. The planning period focused on specific planning should be aligned with the overall planning of national economic and social development.

Article 9 Regional development planning in the city is the planning of national economic and social development in the administrative regions of the city (zone) and should include the following:

(i) Development status, development environment and conditions for the planning period;

(ii) To guide ideas, strategic positioning, development goals;

(iii) Major tasks, development priorities, functional zones and related policies;

(iv) Infrastructure, environmental protection and ecological construction;

(v) Safeguards planned for implementation;

(vi) Planning needs to be clear other elements.

Chapter III Preparation and management of development planning

Article 10. Overall planning for national economic and social development and annual plans are prepared by the Government of the People's Government at the municipal, district and district levels (zone) to prepare draft planning with the relevant departments.

Specific development planning is developed by the relevant sectors of the Government of the city, the district level (zone) on the basis of the responsibilities; it involves multiple sectoral responsibilities, which are developed by the same-level people's government.

Regional development planning in the city is developed by the Government of the city, and the municipal development planning administrative authorities are responsible for the development of draft planning with the relevant sectors and the local and district-level governments.

Article 11. Development planning, such as the overall planning of national economic and social development, should be based on the planning of the main functional areas of the province.

The preparation of annual plans for national economic and social development, dedicated development planning and urban regional development planning should be based on the overall planning of economic and social development at the same level.

Article 12 The overall planning for the economic and social development of the national population at the district level (zone) is likely to result in an appropriate reduction of indicators based on regional development features.

Article 13 focuses on development planning by the executive authorities of the development planning process to prepare a project directory with the relevant departments, to be approved by the Government of the same-ranking people.

General development planning is subject to recommendations made by the relevant departments to the same level of development planning administrative authorities, which are reviewed by the development planning administration authorities.

After the specific development planning line, its preparation of funds should be included in the same-tier financial budget.

Article 14. Development planning should be carried out in accordance with the pre-session preparation, formulation of drafts, interfaces, advice, review and approval and publication procedures established by the law.

Article 15. The draft special development planning process cannot be agreed upon in the course of the interface, which is coordinated by the executive authorities of development planning and cannot be agreed upon and submitted to the Government of the same rank.

The formulation of the draft development planning framework should be organized by the executive authorities for development planning.

The draft focus of the environmental impact evaluation is required by law, with the participation of the executive authorities for environmental protection and the executive authorities for development planning when developing sectoral environmental impact assessments.

Article 16

In addition to the provisions of the law, the draft focus on development planning is approved by the executive authorities of the development planning system, which are reviewed by the same level of development planning administration.

The draft regional development planning for the city was approved by the municipal development planning authorities.

The planning period, consistent with the overall planning of national economic and social development, should be completed and reported in the first year of the planning period, with the exception of the legal regulations.

Chapter IV Implementation and monitoring of development planning

Article 18 Governments at the municipal, district level (zone) should oversee the implementation of development planning and coordinate the resolution of key issues arising from implementation.

Article 19 Development planning is implemented by the organization of the preparation body.

In the implementation of development planning, implementation programmes or phase plans, annual plans should be developed.

Specific development planning and implementation programmes or phases of regional development planning, and annual plans should be submitted to the approved organs.

Article 20 Planning bodies should follow up on the implementation of development planning. Timely reports to the original approval bodies on indicators, priorities and major projects that are difficult to complete.

Article 21 Governments of the city, district level (zone) and their relevant sectors should respect development planning, and should not be in contravention of the mandatory and binding provisions of development planning when designing policies, approving or approving investment projects, developing resources and organizing financial expenditures.

The development of overall land use planning, rural and urban planning should be based on overall national economic and social development planning.

The overall planning and priority development planning for national economic and social development should be undertaken in the third year of the planning period, with a summary of the planned period.

The mid-term assessment report on overall national economic and social development planning, the performance report on the annual plan should be presented to the Standing Committee of the General Assembly on behalf of the same people; the summary report should be presented to the Standing Committee of the General Assembly. The medium-term assessment report and the summary report focusing on specific planning should be presented to the same-level people's governments and be sent to the same-level development planning administrative authorities.

Article 23. Development planning shall not be adjusted or revised without a statutory procedure after approval.

Chapter V Legal responsibility

Article 24 should be developed in accordance with this approach without the preparation of development planning, in violation of the legislative authority and procedures, or by unauthorized adjustments, revisions of development planning, which are being restructured by the executive authority approved for development planning, and in the event of severe circumstances, the executive disposition of the responsible and direct responsibilities is given by law.

Article 25, in violation of the mandatory, binding provisions of development planning, is changing by the responsibility unit responsible for organizing the implementation of development planning by the development planning approval authority; in serious circumstances, the administrative disposition of the responsible leadership and direct responsibilities is given by law.

Article 26 Staff of the development planning, implementation and related management bodies, in their work on the development planning and implementation of development planning, favour private fraud or other malfeasance, negligence and administrative disposition by law; constitute crimes and hold criminal responsibility under the law.

Annex VI

Article 27 of this approach is implemented effective 1 April 2014.