What is an Urban Planner?

Professional and technical personnel working in urban planning after passing the national unified examination, obtaining the "Certificate of Practice for Urban Planners" and being registered. In 1999, the state began to implement a qualification system for urban planners. In February 2000, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Construction issued the Notice on Printing and Distributing the Implementation Measures for the Qualified Examination of Registered Urban Planners, and in May 2001 issued the Supplementary Provisions on the Registration Requirements for the Registered Urban Planners Qualification Examination announcement of". Examination work is in charge of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Construction, and the daily work of the National Urban Planning Practice System Management Committee Office is responsible for the specific examination work entrusted to the Personnel Examination Center of the Ministry of Personnel to implement. The exam is held once a year, and the exam is scheduled for mid-October. Test centers are only set up in provincial capitals.

Town Planner

Professional and technical personnel working in urban planning after passing the national unified examination, obtaining the "Certificate of Practice for Urban Planners" and being registered. In 1999, the state began to implement a qualification system for urban planners. In February 2000, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Construction issued the Notice on Printing and Distributing the Implementation Measures for the Qualified Examination of Registered Urban Planners, and in May 2001 issued the Supplementary Provisions on the Registration Requirements for the Registered Urban Planners Qualification Examination announcement of". Examination work is in charge of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Construction, and the daily work of the National Urban Planning Practice System Management Committee Office is responsible for the specific examination work entrusted to the Personnel Department

Urban planners are professional technicians who have passed the unified national examination, obtained the "Certificate of Practice for Urban Planners", and have been registered and engaged in urban planning work.

In 1999, according to the "Notice of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Construction on Printing and Distributing the" Interim Provisions on the Qualification System for Registered Urban Planners "and the" Measures for the Qualification of Registered Urban Planners "(Renfa [1999] 39), the state began Urban planner qualification system. In February 2000, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Construction issued the Notice of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Construction on Printing and Distributing the Implementation Measures for the Qualification Examination of Registered Urban Planners (Renfa [2000] No. 20). The Ministry of Personnel in May 2001 1. The General Office of the Ministry of Construction issued the "Notice on Supplementary Provisions on Registration Conditions for Registered Urban Planners' Qualification Examination" (Renbanfa [2001] No. 38). This system is a major measure for China's construction industry to be in line with international standards.

Those who have obtained the qualifications of registered urban planners through the unified national examination can be employed by the employer as corresponding intermediate professional technical positions according to their work needs.

Judging from the development history of China's urban planning, in the era of planned economy, urban planning is a spatial projection of national economic and social development plans, that is, the implementation of urban development plans on a technical level. Under such a system design, urban planning is more a technical work, and the policy nature of planning cannot be reflected. The social roles of planners are relatively simple, that is, plan managers and plan writers. The former is restricted by the role of bureaucracy, while the latter is mainly to implement the government's administrative instruction plan, and has not formed a clear and independent professional subjectivity.

Urban planners do not need to think about issues such as the balance of social interests, they only need to implement the project arrangements of the planning department. Such a professional role naturally leads to the emphasis on skills education in urban planning education, highlighting the engineering and technical characteristics of urban planning. During this period, planners' professional ethical ideals were classically utopian. They were quite similar to the spirit of western countries at the beginning of urban planning, although they were not actually integrated by actual social mechanisms. Urban planners began in the 1990s. With the gradual establishment of a market economy system, the social functions of urban planning are gradually transforming.

With the deepening of the decentralization reform, urban planning has become an important tool for local governments to conduct urban management and improve urban competitiveness, and the social status of urban planning has been increasing. With the emergence of civil society and the rapid increase of private property owners, urban planning can restructure social interest relationships by adjusting spatial relationships. Urban planning not only reflects the interests of different segments of society, but also creates new interest relationships. Urban planning has become the government's public policy in the field of urban development, construction, and management. Its focus is shifting from engineering technology to public policy, and urban planners have a growing right to speak on urban development issues.

The evolution of the social function of urban planning inevitably profoundly affects the social role of its profession and causes the role of planners to differentiate. The social roles of Chinese planners are divided into two categories: government planners and practicing planners. Differences in social roles will inevitably lead to different knowledge structures and professional qualities. However, on the one hand, planners are busy with design tasks all day, on the other hand, the policy content of urban planning is being dismembered by relevant departments, and urban planning is in danger of becoming increasingly instrumental. One of the important reasons is that our planning education has not cultivated talents that meet the requirements of planning career development.