The Regulatory Plan of Beijing Urban Center Area

Between 1995 and 1997, Beijing municipal people’s government organized to prepare The Regulatory Plan of Beijing Urban Center Area. It issues a relative detailed control requirement in the scope of 324 square kilometers. It makes further adjustment on the land layout of the center area, makes the city structure more clear, the land use function shall be more reasonable. It emphasizes the function of political center and culture center of the old city, issue to strengthen the protection on the historical culture famous city, carry out further ten guiding principles of Beijing City Master Planning. It continues to complete the rebuilding of Tiananmen Square and Changan Avenue. Persist the policy of combining the dangerous old house rebuilding and new area building, and combine rebuilding important expansion on some city main trunk road, perfect the road system, increase the public green land.

At the same time, it shall start from the view of city design, it issues the corresponding control requirement on old city layout, building height and cultural heritage and historical remains environment control. It issues to protect the plain and broad space status of the old city, the building height control shall be gradually improve by layers taking forbidden city and imperial city as the center. According to the requirements on protection of Beijing old city view by master planning, combining the actual situation of land development, it carry out the detail and adjustment on the building height control. The building height control shall be ten levels. Original view protection area are 9 meters, 12 meters, 18 meters, 24 meters, 30 meters, 45 meters, 60 meters, 80 meters and 100 meters.