Table 1 Attribute identification of PTSP documents in China (n = 27).

From: Critical considerations in provincial territorial spatial planning in China: a qualitative and spatial analysis

Parent codes

First-level codes

Second-level codes

Examples of reference points

Number of material sources

Overall Strategy

(1128, OS)

Spatial Strategies (SSs, 786)

Ecology (ECO, 223), Town (TWN, 184), Agriculture (AGRI, 125), Styles And Cultures (S&C, 124), Industry (IND,50), Rural (R, 45), Economy (ECON,19), Ocean(O,16)

Led by the ecological spatial pattern, a green and beautiful ecological space of Wan (Anhui Province) will be formed, promoting the transformation of “two mountains”.

27

Positioning and Objectives (P&O, 238)

Macro Strategies (MS, 91), Development Goals (DGs, 76), Overall Positioning (OP, 70)

National Pilot Zones for Eco-Environmental Conservation, Demonstration zone for the integrated development across the Taiwan Strait.

27

Development Paradigm (DP, 104)

Development Patterns (DPs, 43), Conservation Patterns (CP, 39), Development and Protection Patterns (DPPs,22)

Construct an overall pattern for the development and protection of territorial space, with the main body consisting of “two poles, two belts, three axes, and six bay areas,” and the skeleton comprising “two screens, one belt, six rivers, and two streams.”

27

Support System

(SS,340)

Regional Major Facilities (RMF, 140)

Major Regional Safety and Disaster Prevention Facilities (MRSDPF, 49), Major Regional Water Supply Facilities (MRWSF, 29), Other Important Infrastructure (OII, 28), Major Regional Electrical Facilities (MREF, 17), New Infrastructures (NI, 17)

Optimize the water resource balance and security protection network, delineate strategic water resource security protection areas, improve the layout of natural disaster risk prevention and control, and perfect the construction of a comprehensive disaster prevention and reduction system.

25

Transportation Infrastructure (TI, 105)

Province Major Transportation Facilities (PMTF, 55), Regional External Transportation Facilities (RETF, 50)

Form a provincial air transport pattern centered around Xining Airport, with Geermu and Yushu airports as secondary hubs. Add a new high-speed rail corridor in the direction of Beijing-Shenyang, and construct a second high-speed rail channel between Qinhuangdao and Shenyang.

27

Public Service Facilities (PSF, 55)

Culture (Cul, 20), Healthcare (H, 11), Education (Edu, 10), Pension (P, 8), Sports (S, 6)

Promote the allocation of medical resources to underdeveloped areas and ethnic regions; by 2035, comprehensive cultural stations will cover all communities (streets) and townships, and village-level comprehensive cultural service centers will cover all administrative villages.

14

Community Integrated Services (CIS, 23)

Community-Life Circle Concept (CLCC, 15), Community Service Complex (CSC, 7), Community Center for Epidemic Integration (CCEI, 1)

The basic public services of the 15-minute community living circle are fully covered.

14

Public Service Mode (PSM, 17)

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Construct a “four-level, five-category” basic public service system that is in line with the level of economic and social development, serves strategic objectives, and is systematically comprehensive. Promote the equalization of basic public services throughout the region and fully ensure the land use needs for public service facilities.

11

Planning Guarantee

(PG, 162)

Organizational Mechanisms (OM, 83)

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Improve public participation mechanisms, strengthen planning monitoring and early warning, and enhance the supervision and management of planning at all levels and types throughout the province.

27

Platform Support (PS, 33)

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Develop and improve the basic territorial spatial information platform, and build a unified territorial spatial information platform.

27

Laws & Regulations (L&R, 32)

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Improve the supporting policies and implementation guarantee mechanisms, further improve the system of laws, regulations and policies, and construct a unified technical standard system for territorial spatial planning.

22

Major Project Safeguards (MPS, 14)

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Establish a management mechanism for a major project database, improve the service guarantee system for major projects, and ensure the implementation of major projects at the provincial level and above.

10

Policy Orientation

(PO, 95)

National Level Policies (NLPs, 53)

Internal Influences (II, 41), External Influence (EI, 12)

Deeply integrate into the Belt and Road initiative, promote the construction of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor; comprehensively strengthen open cooperation with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, actively integrate into the China-Singapore cooperation mechanism and the China-ASEAN framework cooperation.

11

Provincial Level Policies (PLP, 42)

Demands (DMD,31), Problems and Status (Prob&S,11)

Build two international metropolitan areas with Guangzhou and Shenzhen as dual cores, and the Pearl River Estuary West Bank metropolitan area for collaborative development, and accelerate the integrated and interactive development of the east and west banks of the Pearl River Estuary.

Implement major strategies such as the Belt and Road Initiative, the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta region.

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  1. Note: The numbers in parentheses represent the abbreviation of the coding nodes and their corresponding reference point frequencies (unit: counts). “Number of material sources” refers to the quantity of territorial spatial plans documents used for coding (unit: copies), with a total sample size of 27 copies. The counts of material sources that are fewer than 27 listed in the table are due to some provincial/autonomous plan documents not including content for certain nodes and thus being excluded from the corresponding material source numbers. The Provincial Territorial Spatial Plans used in this study are all public consultation drafts/draft for public comments.