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We should push forward with the coordinated and interconnected
development of key city clusters and promote more efficient regional

collaboration in industrial and innovation chains.
We should accelerate the development of city clusters along the middle
reaches of the Yangtze River and in other areas, develop a number of major

cities as regional centers, and give better play to the role of cross-regional
areas in supporting and driving the development of surrounding regions. We
should increase cooperation across administrative divisions, improve

mechanisms to facilitate coordinated planning, industrial collaboration, and
benefit sharing between different regions, and develop new regional growth
models such as the river basin economy.

30. Improving the development of territorial spaces
We should intensify our efforts to implement the functional zoning
strategy. We should keep the general layout encompassing urban zones,

major agricultural production zones, and key ecosystem service zones stable,
formulate detailed, specific plans for special functional zones, and refine
relevant supporting policies and assessment and evaluation mechanisms. We

should also work to optimize the layouts of strategic industries and energy
and resource bases.
The territorial space planning system should be improved. We should

enforce and refine arable land and permanent basic cropland redlines,
ecological conservation redlines, and urban development boundaries, and
implement differentiated and rigorous regulation on territorial space use in

different regions and categories. Provincial-level governments should be
given more power to manage land designated for construction purposes. We
should explore an approach to keeping the total area of construction land

within the limit set for each planning period and ensure the supply of land by
taking stock of both existing and new land resources.
31. Promoting people-centered new urbanization
We should take well-conceived, systematic measures to grant permanent

urban residency to people who move to cities from rural areas and implement
systems that allow people to obtain household registration and access basic

public services in their place of permanent residence. We should modernize
the governance of super-large and mega cities, accelerate integrated
development in city clusters and in metropolitan areas, optimize the scale and
spatial structures of cities, and work to ensure that cities of different sizes and

small towns develop in coordination with each other to form efficient and

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