Make urban planning sustainable, visionary

The State Council, China's Cabinet, released a document on strengthening the administration of urban planning on Sunday. It sets a clear guideline of how the country's urban development should be regulated to make it more healthy and sustainable.

It sets out the basic principles and key tasks for healthy urban development so that cities are "orderly constructed, properly developed, and efficiently operated".

As the document points out, there have been prominent problems with the country's urban development in the past couple of decades due to visionless urban planning and blind expansion of cities without efficient use of resources, which have rendered urbanization unsustainable in a lot of cities.