Recently, with the approval of the Hunan Provincial People’s Government, the Hunan Provincial Department of Natural Resources and the Hunan Provincial Development and Reform Commission jointly issued a document to publish the Catalogue of Special Planning for Provincial Land and Space in Hunan Province and the List of Suggestions for Special Planning for Municipal Land and Space in Hunan Province, in which “Special Planning for Historical Culture and Cultural Relics Protection” was included in the Catalogue of Special Planning for Provincial Land and Space in Hunan Province and “Special Planning for Cultural Relics Protection” was included in the Catalogue of Special Planning for Municipal Land and Space in Hunan Province.
Hunan Provincial Party Committee and provincial government attach great importance to the protection and management of cultural relics in the compilation of national spatial planning. The “Implementation Opinions on Strengthening the Reform of Cultural Relics Protection and Utilization” issued on June 18th, 2020 clearly states that “the compilation and implementation of land and space planning should fully consider the protection, utilization and management needs of immovable cultural relics on the ground and underground, organize the compilation of provincial, municipal and county cultural relics protection special plans, strengthen the connection between cultural relics protection planning and land and space planning, and check with” one map “,and incorporate them into the” one map “platform of land and space planning after approval”. On June 18th, 2020, “Several Opinions on Establishing a Land Spatial Planning System and Supervising its Implementation” clearly put forward “continuing the historical context and strengthening the style control”.
Hunan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics has applied to the provincial finance for the preparation of the special plan for cultural relics protection, and started the pilot work in Yiyang City.
(Chen Liwen)