The national standard ＂Technical Specification for Provincial Land and Space Planning＂ will be implemented in 2024.

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 17 (Reporter Zhao Wenjun) Recently, the General Administration of Market Supervision (National Standards Committee) approved the release of the national standard GB/T 43214-2023, which will be implemented on January 1, 2024.

　　The standard defines the top-level design and overall requirements of provincial land space planning, covering the whole land space such as land and sea, urban and rural areas, above ground and underground, establishes the positioning, tasks and compilation principles of provincial land space planning, stipulates the compilation procedures and technical routes, and describes the main contents such as planning scheme compilation and achievement requirements.

　　Starting from improving the pertinence, scientificity and operability of planning, this standard highlights the coordination of provincial land and space planning.

　　First, regional coordination is emphasized, and inter-provincial and intra-provincial regional coordination schemes are formed from the dimensions of ecological collaborative protection, environmental collaborative governance, industrial collaborative development, infrastructure interconnection, and public service sharing.

　　Second, it emphasizes the coordination of functions, giving priority to protection, quality improvement and structural adjustment in agricultural space, ensuring national food security and meeting the people’s demand for high-quality agricultural products; Ecological space requires safety first, maintaining biodiversity and improving ecological service functions, and building a national ecological security barrier; Urban space requires combining the changing trends of population and industry, classifying and guiding the efficient layout of urban space agglomeration and green transformation and development, and creating a competitive national space; At the same time, it puts forward spatial guidance for infrastructure layout, cultural heritage and natural heritage protection and utilization.

　　The third is to emphasize the coordination of elements, focusing on three dimensions: security, functional improvement and quality improvement. Based on consolidating the bottom line of national space security, the requirements of scale, layout and structure are put forward from the aspects of natural resources, history and culture and various spatial supporting elements.