There are 10 remaining Xi’an urban planning documents laid out in the period of Nanjing government (19271949), which again chronologically classified into the phase of instructed government, the period as the secondary capital and the period of postwar reconstruction. In terms of their planning contents and conception and social influence, They include both constructive projects to be carried out and planning programs of urban development. And according to their characteristics of development, these programs resulted from a gradually developing and maturing course of adapting the demands of recent constructive planning for recent local development to the longterm political planning in accordance with the state institutions and continuously introducing Western conception of urban planning.

modern city of Xi’an; file documents laid out in the period of the Republic of China; conception of planning