What Does a Land Planner Do?

Since the 1950s, land planning majors have been set up in relevant colleges. Since the reform and opening up, the land planning discipline has developed greatly. Many colleges have successively restored or added land planning or land planning-related majors, and cultivated a large number of professional and technical personnel for land use planning. However, there are obvious problems in current land planning education. First, professional settings are not standardized. The major of land planning is divided into a variety of colleges and disciplines such as agriculture, geography, economics, and surveying. Lack of overall planning for professional orientation and curriculum. Teaching levels are uneven. Second, there is a serious disconnect between basic education and professional development. The problem of aging of professional courses and content is relatively prominent, which limits the continuous improvement of professional standards in the entire planning industry and fosters

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Since the 1950s, land planning majors have been set up in relevant colleges. Since the reform and opening up, the land planning discipline has developed greatly. Many colleges have successively restored or added land planning or land planning-related majors, and cultivated a large number of professional and technical personnel for land use planning. However, there are obvious problems in current land planning education. First, professional settings are not standardized. The major of land planning is divided into a variety of colleges and disciplines such as agriculture, geography, economics, and surveying. Lack of overall planning for professional orientation and curriculum. Teaching levels are uneven. Second, there is a serious disconnect between basic education and professional development. The problem of aging of professional courses and content is relatively prominent, which limits the continuous improvement of professional standards in the entire planning industry and fosters

It is difficult for the students coming out to adapt to the needs of land use planning under the conditions of a market economy. Third, continuing education has not kept up. Land use planning is a comprehensive, technical, and policy-oriented task. Its development is changing with each passing day. Basic education alone is not enough. It is necessary to continuously learn, enrich and update relevant knowledge in combination with practice in the work. And technology, the number and quality of existing staff are far from meeting the needs of land use planning and management development.

Establishing a qualification system for land planners can effectively solve the above problems. The first is to clarify the qualification requirements for land planners, which can prompt relevant colleges and disciplines to adjust their professional training directions and curriculum settings in a timely manner to make basic education more targeted. The latest information and needs in planning practice can be timely fed back into the content design of basic education through the qualification requirements of land planners. The improvement of basic education can further promote planning practice; third, it can promote land planners to receive continuing education. As such continuing education is linked to land planner qualifications and regular registration.