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Sichuan Government Planning Documents: A Founder's Guide to What Is Published

A practical overview for foreign founders of the planning documents published on the Sichuan provincial government's information disclosure page, including five-year plans, spatial plans, regional plans, and city-level links.

What This Page Is

The Sichuan Provincial People's Government maintains an official information disclosure section that publishes planning documents (规划) alongside policy and regulatory files. For foreign founders evaluating a Sichuan-based entity, this page is a reference index rather than a business guide: it shows which provincial plans exist, when they were issued, and how they are grouped. Knowing the structure helps you locate the documents that may affect where you register, what land or facilities you can use, and which regional development priorities apply to your proposed operations.

The page organizes entries into several categories, each with a "more" (更多) link to the full list. Below is what each category contains, based only on the titles and dates shown.

Five-Year Plans and Long-Range Outlines

The first category covers policy, regulations, and normative documents, including provincial five-year plans:

• 15th Five-Year Plan outline for Sichuan's economic and social development, dated 2026-04-13.
• 14th Five-Year Plan and the 2035 long-range objectives outline, dated 2021-03-17.
• 13th Five-Year Plan outline, dated 2016-02-15.
• 12th Five-Year Plan outline, dated 2011-01-28.

The 14th Five-Year Plan document also carries 2035 long-range objectives, which makes it the most recent published plan spanning a long horizon. For founders, these outlines set the provincial framing that lower-level plans follow.

Spatial Planning Documents

A second category lists territorial and spatial plans (国土空间规划), which govern land use and development boundaries:

• Sichuan Tianfu New Area territorial spatial plan (2021–2035), dated 2025-12-31.
• A notice from the provincial Department of Natural Resources issuing five specialized plans, including the Chengdu Plain Economic Zone territorial spatial plan (2021–2035), dated 2024-11-04.
• Sichuan provincial territorial spatial plan (2021–2035), dated 2024-04-11.
• Anning River Basin territorial spatial plan (2022–2035), dated 2022-11-22.
• Sichuan provincial territorial spatial ecological restoration plan (2021–2035), dated 2022-07-08.
• A notice issuing the provincial main functional zones plan, dated 2013-04-16.
• Provincial land use master plans for 2006–2020 (dated 2010-02-23) and 1997–2010 (dated 1999-11-15).

These documents matter for site selection, industrial park placement, and any activity requiring land allocation. Note that the land use master plans shown are older; the territorial spatial plans are the more recent instruments listed.

Regional and Metropolitan Plans

A third category covers cross-city and regional development planning:

• Chengdu metropolitan area integrated development 15th Five-Year Plan, dated 2026-09-09.
• Chengdu metropolitan area development plan, dated 2021-11-29.
• The Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle construction plan outline, issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, dated 2021-10-21.
• 14th Five-Year Plan documents for integrated development of the Chengdu Plain Economic Zone, the Northwest Sichuan ecological demonstration zone, the Panxi economic zone transformation and upgrading plan, the South Sichuan economic zone integrated development plan, and the Northeast Sichuan economic zone revitalization plan, all dated 2021-06-09.
• A 2019-01-25 notice issuing 13th Five-Year Plan development plans for the Chengdu Plain Economic Zone (2018 revision) and four others.
• The Northwest Sichuan ecological economic zone 13th Five-Year Plan development plan, dated 2016-09-02.

If your business depends on logistics corridors, supplier clusters, or incentives tied to a specific sub-region, these plans define the geographic groupings the province uses.

Sector Plans and Government Approvals

A fourth category mixes provincial sector plans with government replies (批复) approving them:

• Replies on the 15th Five-Year Plans for water security and for public services, both dated 2026-10-09.
• Beautiful Sichuan construction 15th Five-Year Plan, dated 2026-10-09.
• Reply on the traditional Chinese medicine development 15th Five-Year Plan, dated 2026-10-08.
• Provincial disability protection and development 15th Five-Year Plan, dated 2026-09-21, and a reply on the sports development 15th Five-Year Plan of the same date.
• Provincial natural resources protection and utilization 15th Five-Year Plan, dated 2026-09-17.
• Provincial health development 15th Five-Year Plan and geological disaster prevention 15th Five-Year Plan, both dated 2026-09-11, alongside a reply on the market regulation modernization 15th Five-Year Plan of the same date.
• Provincial housing and urban-rural development high-quality development 15th Five-Year Plan, dated 2026-08-31.

Heritage and Scenic Area Protection Approvals

A further category lists government replies on protection plans for historic cities, towns, villages, and scenic areas:

• Luzhou historic and cultural city protection plan (2025–2035), dated 2026-08-05.
• Mianzhu historic and cultural city protection plan (2023–2035), dated 2026-07-29.
• Replies covering six historic towns and villages including Enyang in Bazhong's Enyang District (2024–2035), dated 2026-07-12.
• Mengding Mountain scenic area master plan (2025–2035), dated 2026-06-22, and Laojun Mountain scenic area master plan (2025–2035), dated 2026-05-20.
• Reply on the Banyueshan cliff carvings protection plan, dated 2026-05-24.
• Replies on five historic town protection plans including Aiy e in Zigong (2025–2035), dated 2026-05-06; and on the Jiange and Tongjiang historic city protection plans, both dated 2026-04-24.

Founders in tourism, hospitality, or construction near protected areas should check whether a site falls within one of these approved protection zones before committing to a location.

City and Prefecture Links

The page ends with links to 21 city and prefecture governments: Chengdu, Zigong, Panzhihua, Luzhou, Deyang, Mianyang, Guangyuan, Suining, Neijiang, Leshan, Nanchong, Yibin, Guang'an, Dazhou, Bazhong, Ya'an, Meishan, Ziyang, Aba Prefecture, Garze Prefecture, and Liangshan Prefecture. Municipal-level plans and registration procedures are typically published there rather than on the provincial index.

Practical Takeaways

• Start with the provincial outline. The 14th Five-Year Plan and 2035 objectives document is the broadest published framework; the 15th Five-Year Plan outline is the newest entry.
• Match your location to a spatial plan. Territorial spatial plans (2021–2035) govern land use and are the relevant documents for factory, warehouse, or office siting.
• Check regional groupings. Sub-regional plans determine which economic zone your project falls into and which development priorities apply.
• Verify sector-specific rules. Sector plans and their approving replies indicate where provincial attention is directed.
• Confirm details locally. The provincial page is an index; specific registration requirements, permits, and timelines should be verified with the relevant municipal authority.

This summary is based on information published by the relevant Chinese government website and is general information, not legal or tax advice.