Legal basis: Regulations on Development Planning of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
Article 1 In order to promote the standardization and institutionalization of development planning, improve the scientificity of development planning, strengthen the management of development planning, ensure the implementation of development planning, and give play to the guiding and regulating role of development planning in economic and social development, these Regulations are formulated in accordance with relevant laws and administrative regulations and in light of the actual situation of the autonomous region.
Article 7 Development plans are divided into general plans for national economic and social development, plans for main functional areas, special plans, regional plans and annual plans for national economic and social development.