City planning work has the function of comprehensive coordination, control administration on city space layout, so it has special important function for the protection of historical culture famous city. For example, it confirms the reasonable economic society development strategy, promote the city economic and ancient city protection coordination and development, protecting the ancient city through planning new area. By controlling the height division and space view corridor, it continues the space order. Through the road planning to present the cultural heritage and history remains. In the city space, it organizes the cultural heritage, garden scenery and various history landmarks, forming the network system to be convenient for people to identify and apperceive. By dividing the view division, it carries well on the city design of the important areas, makes the old and new building exist in harmony.

All previous Beijing city master planning
From developing the city master planning preparation, Beijing pays more attention on the protection of historical city. Only it is limited by history and recognition development change, the protection power are different.

1.The master planning of 1950’s
In 1953, The Key Points of Rebuilding and Enlarging Beijing Planning Draft takes Beijing city feature as the political, economic and culture center of the government, powerful industry base and the center of science and technology. In the city building, it emphasizes and makes use of the present basis, reasonably reserve and boldly reconstruct. The planning plan completed in 1957-1958 basically continues the above idea, persist to take the industrialization road, make the issue to expedite the old city rebuilding.

2.The master planning of 1980’s
It indicates that Beijing is the capital of our country, and the historical culture famous city. The construction of Beijing shall reflect the historical culture of China nationalities, revolution tradition and socialism government capital unique view, shall inherit and carry forward the tradition of historical culture city, and try to innovate, shall carefully protect revolution history remains, cultural heritage, ancient building, historical site and surrounding environment, gradually and partly reconstruct the old city.

3.The master planning of 1990’s
The city type is confirmed as the political center and culture center of the country, world famous ancient capital and modern international city, emphasizing the requirement of the culture content and fully opening to the outside. It issues three levels and ten measures to protect the historical culture famous city. The three levels are each grade cultural heritage protection unit, historical culture protection area and famous city integration. The ten measures include protecting the central axial, 凸 city enceinte, river and lake water system, street and lane, alley layout, city color, space layout, import view line, street symmetrical scenery, city plaza, ancient tree, famous tree and other contents.etc.

4.The latest version of master planning
In Beijing City Master Planning （2004-2020）approved by State Council in 2005, it issues that Beijing is the world famous ancient capital and historical culture famous city. It shall make full recognition on the important historical significance and world significance of protecting historical culture famous city. It shall emphasize protection on the treasured cultural heritages and historical remains in all previous historical period, excellent modern and contemporary building, historical culture protection area, old city as whole and traditional view characteristic, landscape and famous scenery and its environment, inherit and carry forward Beijing excellent historical culture tradition.

It is planed to issue the whole protection on the old city, expanding the old city protection scope to the urban area of Beijing moat river and its historical sites (including moat river and its site), emphasized to protect the traditional space layout and view of old city. The content include protecting the traditional central axial, 凸 city enceinte, imperial city, historical river and lake water system, original chess road network backbone and street and lane, alley layout, plain and broad space status, important view line, street symmetrical scenery, traditional construction color and status features, ancient tree, famous tree and big tree , Beijing unique “Alley-four union courtyard” configuration totaled ten aspects. By making overall consideration of old city protection, center city adjustment optimization and new city development, actively distribute the residing population of the old city, actively deploy the model of suiting old city protection and renewed dangerous house rebuilding, formulate the transportation policy of old city and road network planning, formulate the measures of technical standard and implementing method of building municipal infrastructure to protect and renew old city.

The protection planning also includes the protection on cultural heritage protection unit, excellent modern and contemporary building, historical culture area, urban historical culture resources, mechanism safeguard and other content.