The Yangtze River Delta region is one of the regions with the most active economic development, the highest degree of openness and the strongest innovation ability in our country, its integrated development is not only related to the adjustment of regional economic structure, the innovation of social management and the construction of ecological civilization, but also to the promotion of high-quality national development and the construction of a new development pattern. However, the integration of the Yangtze river delta is facing many challenges such as administrative barriers, regional coordination, green transformation and so on.

To this end, the editorial department of the“Yangtze River delta high-quality integration: what can planning do?” As the theme, the organization of a new academic talk, invited 13 experts from the front-line views. Professor Zhang Jingxiang pointed out that the integration of the Yangtze River Delta was restricted by the threshold of market and factor flow and allocation, those pure top-down push, lack of broad consensus in the region, stay in the empty slogan of integration planning are difficult to really implement; Deputy Director Tu Qiyu pointed out that the current regional strategic space is still mainly identified in the natural layer, while the tourism dimension is limited to tandem, and the industrial dimension planning is extremely dependent on market regulation, the Science and technology innovation dimension planning is inefficient and does not adapt to the increasingly active subject cooperation network; Zhao Min believes that some new-type park planning and development plans have the phenomenon of local blindness and low-level duplication of construction, wang Wei has revealed two major problems that often occur in current regional integration, that is, deep-seated interest barriers lead to unimplementable and“Face-type, bonsai-type” projects lead to unsustainable. The solution to these problems must be guided and implemented through scientific and rational planning.