Unified Land Use Planning in the Mountainous Area of Beijing
山区土地利用统筹的途径研究

Two land use plans have been developed in the last two decades and promoted the development of China's land management system greatly. Due to the fast economic development and weak law enforcement and management system on land use, the conflicts between human activities and land resources become more and more serious. A prominent example is that the development in some areas is slow and the land there is used with low efficiency or even left unused, while the development in some other areas is fast but there is no sufficient or even no land resource to be developed. Thus the only proper choice is to plan the land use in all areas as a whole. And how to plan has been brought forward during the last round of land use programming by the central and the local governments. There is no direct or indirect relevant research at home and abroad nowadays. Therefore, it is very necessary to conduct a research on mountainous area's land use. This paper takes Beijing as a case to discuss the feasible ways to make the unified land use planning. Firstly, the watershed and key development areas were selected and demonstrated as the point of penetration to the land use research of mountainous area from many perspectives. Secondly, eight watersheds (Juma River-Dashi River, Yongding River, Wenyu River, Guishui River, Bai River, Chao River and Ju River) were plotted out by raindrop model and other ArcGIS tools, and thirteen key development areas (New Yanfang Downtown, Hancun River-Zhangfang, the periphery of the New Mentougou Downtown, Zhaitang, Nankou, the periphery of the New Huairou Downtown, Tanghekou, the periphery of the New Miyun Downtown, Taishitun, Jinhai Lake and Dahua Mountains) are selected by stepwise filtering way. Thirdly, the unified land use planning of mountainous area was discussed at four levels and four objectives were established respectively. Finally, space layout and organizing of mountainous areas were discussed.