On July 10, the Information Office of Liaoning Provincial People’s Government held a press conference, presenting and interpreting “Liaoning’s Territorial Spatial Plan (2021-2035)”.

On July 1, the People’s Government of Liaoning Province officially issued “Liaoning’s Territorial Spatial Plan (2021-2035)”, which means that the province has officially started to integrate different plans into a single master plan for territorial space development and has forged ahead on a new journey for modernization of territorial space governance.

In terms of agricultural space, by 2035, the province will ensure a minimum arable land area of no less than 76.01 million mu (5,067,333 hectares), including a permanent basic cropland protection area of no less than 62.5067 million mu (4,167,113 hectares). For ecological space, the province will fully implement the requirements for protecting the ecological barriers of the Northeast, North, and Coastal Shelterbelts, establishing an overall eco-environmental conservation configuration composed of the ecological barriers in eastern Liaoning and western Liaoning, the coastal belt, and the multi-level ecological corridor system. In terms of urban space, the province will further carry out the new urbanization strategy, fully leveraging the comparative advantages of urbanized zones, and constructing an urban space configuration consisting of the urban agglomeration in central and southern Liaoning, Shenyang and Dalian as core cities, and Shenyang-Dalian urban towns and Beijing-Shenyang urban towns as two development axes. In terms of marine space, efforts will be made to create a marine space coordinating the functions of both land and sea, optimizing the formation of a marine protection and development configuration, which contains Dalian as the core and leading city, development zones of Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea, five key areas for marine ecological protection and restoration. This will promote the transformation of the province’s marine development and utilization from quantity and scale to quality and efficiency, supporting the province from a province rich in marine resources to a province with a strong marine economy.

Furthermore, the plan holds the concept of “green and low-carbon”, highlighting bottom-line constraints and spatial guidance. It takes “a favorable environment for living and working” as a goal to shape a high-quality territorial space. With the focus on “digital transformation”, it will further modernize the territorial space governance system and governance capacity in all respects.