Environmental planning is a reasonable arrangement for the environment and the coordinated development of economy and society and on their own activities and the environment of space and time. Its purpose is to guide the environmental protection activities, according to the reasonable distribution of targets and measures established emission reduction constraints polluters behavior, improve the ecological environment, to prevent the destruction of resources security, environmental protection activities included in the plan for national economic and social development, with the minimum investment to obtain the best environmental benefits, promote environmental, economic and social sustainable development.
1 Identify Tasks
       Local government or government authorized administrative departments in charge of environmental protection units entrusted with the corresponding qualifications or experience for environmental protection planning, commissioned by the contract documents and clear planning responsibilities of the parties, requirements, work schedule, acceptance and so on.
2 Investigate and Collect Information
       The ecological environment, the necessary collection planning social, economic background or status information, the social and economic development planning, city (town) planning and land use planning, industrial structure, the scale of industrial development and layout planning, and agriculture, forestry, water conservancy, energy, mineral resources, fisheries, tourism and other related industry development planning. When necessary, to represent the local cultural characteristics of the region, the key protection area, serious environmental pollution and ecological destruction area, ecological sensitive areas and marine, nuclear and radiation special investigation or monitoring.
3 Planning Outline
       According to the investigation and collected data on the regional ecological environment, regional characteristics, analysis the development and utilization of resources and so on, to find out the potential and the main ecological environment problems, according to the social and economic development planning and other related planning, forecasting the planning period of social development and change, economic and ecological environment. The corresponding change trend, determine the planning goal and planning on the outline.
4 Planning Outline Demonstration
       Local administrative department of environmental protection organization of planning outline of argument or advice from the experts. According to the views of planning units are modified as a planning basis for the planning outline.
5 Planning
       In accordance with the requirements of planning planning program.
6 Planning, Demonstration andPublic Participation
       Shall solicit the opinions and suggestions of the relevant government departments in the planning process, at the same time, through various forms of public consultation, and organized experts to demonstrate the planning results.
7 Planning Review
       Local administrative department of environmental protection on the basis of demonstration after the review of the planning outline planning organization, planning units according to the planning review opinion changes, improve after the formation of the planning and approval of draft.
8 Planning Approval, Implementation
       Planning draft for approval, by the level of environmental protection of the people's government administrative departments for examination and approval, the approval of the people's Congress or the people's government, implemented by the people's government at the same level.