Abstract:During "the 11th Five-Year Plan" period, China began to attach importance to the role of spatial planning, and good spatial governance was taken as an effective way of implementing the Scientific Development Outlook. Based on the Major Function Oriented Zoning in China, significant spatial planning of various types including territorial planning and regional planning, and the evaluation of the resources and environments bearing capacity of the planning for the after-earthquake reconstruction in Wenchuan, finished with the CAS in the lead, this paper analyzes the objective demands for spatial planning in China. It introduces the scientific and technological innovations made by the research team of CAS in working out significant spatial planning from planning idea, basic theory and technological methods, and puts forward suggestions on the spatial planning during "the 12th Five-Year Plan" period from the following three perspectives: to strengthen spatial governance, to improve spatial planning system, and to implement the Major Function Oriented Zoning.