Greeting the New Century——On the Academic Development of Urban Planning in China

This is the speech given by Professor Wu Liangyong,Director of the UrbanPlanning Society of China,at the 1993's annual meeting of the Urban Planning So-ciety of China held in Xiangfan,on November 8,1993. In the light of the course of the academic development of China's urban plan-ning,while looking back on the history after World War Ⅱ and taking internationalexperiences for reference,the author analyses the problems which now exist in theplanning of our country and proposes how the functions,contents and methods ofthe work of urban planning meet the needs of the socialist market economy.He al-so makes theoretical elaboration on the principles upheld and the orientation andobjective of academic development in the work of urban planning.He lays stress onthe importance of the accomplishment of the ideological and moral quality for theurban planners under the new situation.