| On the foundation of the regional planning incluing urban system planning, etc, the paper summarizes a lot of practical experience, explores further the theory and method of regional urban system planning.The paper explains relevant concept, characteristic of urban system, domestic and international development situation and the planning idea of urban system planning in the new period at first, summarizes the research documents and contents and methods of urban system planning in recent years both here and abroad. Then studies the hot theory and regional development strategy mode which influence present urban system planning and further investigates, have put forward four major mechanisms influencing urban system development and the planning methods to proceed with regional angle, applys GIS and mathematics statistical methods flexibly on planning in order to solve the practical problems, especially predicts population and urbanization level, makes the deep discussion on the choice of the central towns, function of towns or regions research and the application procedure of GIS. At last, it is proved to give a demonstration to validateing the theory and methods with the example of Nanping City urban system planning, has fully proved it made actualeffects and feasibilities in perfect combination and every method of the theory and planning are practised.This text has not only enriched the theoretical foundation of urban system planning of new period, and put forward a kind of effectual planning method for the urban system planing that our country has launched in an all-round way at present, and has proposed a set of solutions and schemes of the author' s to the ubiquitous problems and difficulties in planning, the study has a lot of reference values on the studies of urban system planning in our country and other regions working out their urban system planning. |