Cooperation for Win-Win Results: Healthy Community Planning

ABSTRACT

Introduction The 2020 Annual Meeting of the Housing and Community Planning Committee of the Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC) was successfully held in Xian on Sept. 4, 2020. Jointly supported by the UPSC, the Housing and Community Planning Committee of the UPSC, the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, the Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning & Design Institute, and the Xian University of Architecture and Technology, this meeting took Cooperation for Win-Win Results: Healthy Community Planning as its theme, guided by the principle of strengthening and innovating social governance, building a social governance pattern ofjoint contribution, co-governance, and shared benefits proposed in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). In both online and offline ways, it brought together experts and scholars from universities and scientific research institutes, heads of relevant departments, and representatives of the fields of housing studies and community planning, to jointly promote healthy and sustainable development of communities. The government is not the only decision maker any longer, instead multiple stakeholders are working together to deal with important matters based on the consensus, developing common action guidelines and working mechanisms, putting forward institutional arrangements. 2.Core principles of urban governance In this context, traditional planning, especially at the community level, faces a series of challenges, which may even trigger the restructuring of the knowledge system.