Abstract: On November 21, 2017, 2017 China Urban Operation Forum, hosted by China Urban Operation Alliance and Huaxia Urban Operation Academy, was successfully held in Beijing. Liu Guangchao, Secretary General of Green Legal Global Alliance and Director of Beijing DOCVIT Law Firm, was invited to attend the Forum and delivered a keynote speech.

Over 100 persons, including Kong Dan, Director of CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies and former Board Chairman of CITIC Group, Qiu Baoxing, Counsellor of the State Council and former minister of Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, He Jingtang, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and honorary president of School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Xu Lin, Director of China Center for Urban Development, Su Guoxin, General Manager of Business Cooperation Department for CITIC Group , Jia Kang, member of the national committee of CPPCC and Chief Economist of China Academy of New Supply-side Economics, Lin Zhu, Executive Director of CITIC Urban Operation Center and other guests as well as domestic and international elites in the political, commercial, academic and research communities, attended the Forum, and conducted in-depth discussion and exchange around the theme of “Urban IP: Future-oriented Urban Innovation Path”.

In the Sub-forum “Urban IP and featured towns”, Secretary General Liu Guangchao delivered a keynote speech of Building the Legal Framework System in the Urban Operation and featured town Construction of New Era. Secretary General Liu first shared his understanding over the urban operation and featured town construction of new era. He said that, “To understand from the perspective of urban IP, “Operation” means that urban development has gone through the old path of fully relying on governmental funds and platforms, and marched into a kind of urban operation mode which is more relying on the cooperation between government and social capital.” Secretary General Liu expressed that, “Now, China’s urban operation has entered a new era. Its development ideas have been significantly changed.” In terms of featured town and IP introduction, Secretary General Liu believed that, “the core of featured town lies in “feature”, and is embodied in four aspects, i.e. mechanism, function, industry and form. IP introduction is an important center of effort to push forward the construction of featured towns, the key content to support the healthy development thereof, and also important means to revitalize the existing stock assets. For IP introduction of featured towns, strategic layout can be made from three angles, i.e. project, operation and service.”

Then, from the legal perspective, Secretary General Liu introduced in detail the legal framework system in urban operation and construction of featured towns. He highlighted three major legal regulation systems, i.e. legal system of project land, legal system of project investment and financing and legal system of project construction, in urban operation and construction of featured towns. He said that, “urban operation and construction of featured towns is a systematic and global development strategy, so it requires corresponding supporting legal system to offer regulation and guarantee.” In view of the problems in the legal framework system of featured town construction, he gave his views. He believed that, currently, there were five major problems among featured town construction, i.e. multiple authorities, low level of effectiveness of based on documents, lack of corresponding land use policies, complicated management of featured towns which were non-administrative towns and no specific law provisions regarding the industries and scale of featured towns; government and legislation authorities should concern and pay attention to these problems and provide complete systematic guarantee at the level of law for urban operation and featured town construction.

In addition, Secretary General Liu Guangchao also presided over the Sub-forum “Urban IP and Bay Area Economy” and discussed the healthy development of bay area economy in China with the guests.

On the principle of “being focused, practical, professional”, “China Urban Operation Forum” attracts the domestic and international elites in the political, commercial, academic and research communities by holding multiple forms of activities such as keynote speech, guest dialog, round-table meeting, award appraisal, white paper initiation and project road show. “China Urban Operation Forum” builds a high-standard and high-end thought interaction platform, trend release platform and resources aggregation platform in the urban operation field of China.