21世纪中国城市未来的软规划与生态文明建设

Soft Planning for the Urban Future of China in the 21^(st) Century: Building an Ecological Civilization

文章旨在通过理念性的探讨,试就"中国在日益深入地参与全球贸易和投资中所面临的主要挑战"这一议题激发大家的讨论。文章论述了当代城市化理论现状、城市化和可持续发展之间的关系对中国国家发展目标的影响以及中国21世纪面临的发展挑战,认为:1)中国应注重基于本土发展经验的理论知识构建,以指导自身的城市化道路。特别地,中国需要平衡经济增长与可持续发展之间的关系,充分利用和部署生态资本,推动生态文明建设;2)以部署生态资本为重心的"软规划"在未来规划中将占据更重要的地位,为此需要进行体制改革、机构重组以及加强政府部门与私营部门和民间社会之间的合作;3)扩展型都市区可在生态文明建设中发挥更大作用,努力打造一个可持续的、宜居的和有经济活力的体制性框架,从而为"一带一路"倡议提出的国际贸易和投资深化发展提供基础。

This paper is intended as an“idea”piece to stimulate discussion on the main challenges faced in China’s ongoing task of developing increased participation in global trade and investment.It discusses the present state of knowledge concerning urbanization,the role of the tension between urbanization and sustainable development in China’s national development strategies and the challenges facing China in the 21st century.This paper suggests that China should pay attention to the construction of theories based on local development experience and formulate its own urbanization path in light of the region-based knowledge.Specifically,China should draw attention to the balance of economic growth and sustainable development.China should mobilize and make full use of ecological capital to promote the development of an ecological civilization.Soft planning,which puts an emphasis on the deployment of soft capital such as ecological capital,should be developed to play a more important role in future planning system.For this,work should be done to promote institutional reform and administrative restructuring and to enhance the cooperation between public sectors,private sectors and civil society.Lastly,it is argued that the Extended Urban Region(EUR)as the main territory of urbanization can play more important roles in the development of an ecological civilization.China needs to develop a sustainable,livable and economically vital institutional framework to facilitate the international trade and outward investment proposed in the“One Belt One Road”international cooperative initiative.