Nanjing City, Capital of Jiangsu Province

Nanjing Street Scene

The key planning area of the "Overall City Planning of Nanjing "(1991-2010) is the metropolitan circle of Nanjing, of which the scope includes all urban districts on both banks of the Yangtze River at the Nanjing section and of Luhe, Jiangpu and Jiangning Counties respectively with a total area of 2,753 square kilometers.

The main parts of the city include the city proper, 12 satellite towns and 14 organic towns laying stress on development.

The downtown area is bounded by the Chengdong Trunk Road, Chengxi Trunk Road, New Model Road, Jiankang Road and Shengzhou Road, mainly consisting of Xinjiekou-Gulou financial, commercial and trading center, Gulou information center, East and West Beijing Roads administrative center, Shanxi Road, Zhongyang Road, South Taiping Road and Mochou Road shopping centers, Changjiang Road where the cultural institutions are concentrated and Zhujiang Road/Guangzhou Road where scientific and technological products are sold. No industrial real estate is to be added in the city proper and the factories located within downtown and the historical/cultural relics protective zones are required in principle to move or to change the purpose of land use.