New regulations for strategic vacant land in Beijing

Recently, the Beijing Municipal People's Government officially issued the "Beijing Municipal Strategic Blank Land Management Measures" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"). This is an important strategic measure taken by Beijing to comprehensively and in-depth implement the "Beijing City Master Plan (2016-2035)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Master Plan"). It will optimize and enhance the functions of the capital and promote the city's intensive, efficient and structural structure. Adjustment, layout optimization, and resilience improvement play an important role in achieving sustainable, high-quality development and high-level governance.

The significance of formulating management measures for strategic blank land

It fully reflects Beijing’s responsibility for the long-term development of the city and its pattern of responsibility for future generations, leaving room for future development. The historical patience and management wisdom in promoting the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capabilities fully reflect the forward-looking, scientific and authoritative nature of the planning.

Strategic blank space is an important innovative measure to improve the legal, scientific and efficient planning management system and promote the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capabilities. The implementation opinions of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China on implementing the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Upholding and Improving the Socialist System with Chinese Characteristics and Advancing the Modernization of the National Governance System and Governance Capabilities" clearly requires the establishment and improvement of a strategic white space management system. , the “Measures” issued this time are specific measures to implement the implementation opinions.

Strategic white space is an important means to improve urban resilience. Strategic blank land provides guarantee for optimizing and upgrading the functions of the capital, reserves space for major urban infrastructure, public service facilities, and responds to major public security issues, and achieves high-quality urban development, high-quality life, and high-level governance. .

What is strategic blank space?

When Beijing City compiled the regional planning (land spatial planning) of each district, it planned and designated approximately 132 square kilometers of urban and rural construction land within the city’s 2,760 square kilometers. The square kilometers of strategic blank land has been mapped in the zoning planning database, and has been detailed and implemented in the planning preparation and planning implementation management rules at all levels. Dual control of urban and rural construction land and building scale will be implemented. In principle, before 2035 Not enabled.

Strategic blank space leaves opportunities for strategic development: In order to fully reflect the strategic nature, zoning planning reserves strategic space for strategic development around important strategic nodes and key functional areas in urban development.

Strategic blank space leaves flexibility for long-term development: The zoning plan demarcates development reserve blanks at the edges of new towns and built-up areas in towns and villages, leaving room for future development.

Strategic blank spaces leave opportunities for transformation and upgrading: Zoning planning inefficiently utilizes the functionally optimized blank spaces designated for areas to be transformed and vacated in the current situation, leaving opportunities for transformation and development.

Strategic blank space leaves room for optimized functions: Land plots that have no clear implementation plan in the short and medium term, such as the vacating of the special action of "decommissioning, remediation and promotion", will be designated as strategic blank land in a timely manner for use Repair and dynamically improve urban functions.

What are the main contents of the "Measures"?

In order to give full play to the strategic support and spatial adjustment of the strategic blank measures in the implementation of the overall plan, the "Measures" coordinate with the pace of plan implementation, Implement total volume control and dynamic optimization management to reserve high-quality development space for the city's long-term development.

Maintain a balance in the total amount, and in principle, the strategic blank land will only increase rather than decrease

District governments and development zone management committees should strengthen the management of strategic blank land, and maintain the total amount of strategic blank land before 2035. The amount does not decrease. Encourage all district governments and development zone management committees to increase the scale of strategic blank land, and timely classify land parcels that have no clear implementation plan in the short to medium term, such as those vacated by the special action of "deconsolidating, renovating, and promoting improvement" into strategic blank land.

Strictly control the current situation. In principle, the existing above-ground buildings will only be reduced but not increased

Each district government and development zone management committee shall, based on the conditions of buildings and structures in the strategic blank land, conduct on-site Strengthen classified management and control of blank land and planned blank land.

For vacant land without buildings or structures, district governments and development zone management committees should implement temporary greening based on actual conditions and list them for public notice, "view the land with green" and strictly control it.

For planned blank land with buildings and structures, district governments and development zone management committees should strengthen management and control, and legal construction can be temporarily retained, except for the purpose of ensuring the "seven properties" and "five properties" Except for people's livelihood needs, it is not allowed to change the use or carry out reconstruction and expansion at will; illegal construction will be severely cracked down and included in the illegal demolition plan for demolition within a time limit.

Strengthen planning to vacate blank land, and have plans to realize on-site blank land

District governments and development zone management committees should respond to buildings, structures and related mortgage loans in strategic blank land Conduct a thorough investigation, analysis and evaluation of the situation, formulate a classified clean-up plan, incorporate it into the short-term land and space planning and annual implementation plan, organize and implement it in an orderly manner, and achieve on-site blanking by 2035 to achieve "zero ground objects" and "zero-cost" sustainability have.

District governments and development zone management committees should use land resource consolidation and other methods to coordinate the implementation of land development projects and strategic blank land within the planning implementation unit, taking into account personnel placement, resource use, and cost allocation. and implementation timing, strengthen fund calculation and cost management, and scientifically formulate plans. For projects that coordinate the implementation of strategic blank land use, support will be provided in terms of building scale indicators and other aspects.

Continue to optimize spatial layout and gradually guide the realization of centralized contiguous areas

Encourage district governments and development zone management committees to follow the principles of no reduction in total volume, more optimized layout, and more reasonable land use conditions , through land replacement, gradually realize the centralized and contiguous distribution of strategic blank land.

Encourage district governments and development zone management committees to coordinate and adjust the layout of non-construction land and strategic blank land after reduction, and to concentrate strategic blank land in areas with greater location advantages. , the original matching building scale indicators are bundled with the strategic blank land.