【正文】 ould make decisions for some of the related steps. In the urban design of China at the present stage， some large projects have already had the step of general planning, and in some other important projects, there are actually the contents of general planning although it is not so explicit. As a matter of fact，in some cases, the purpose of participation by professional workers in the bidding of the project is to help make decisions, which is also an activity of the stage of general planning. For instance, in the construction of the Olympic Village for Beijing Olympic Games in 2020, the planning of the anizational structure, working rules and operational mechanism of the project by considering the international impact, socioeconomic factors and building conditions， is in fact the activity of general planning of the entire Olympic Village. At such a stage, all the following jobs belong to the specific work in the process of the general planning: setting of the tasks, choosing of the place, collecting of the preliminary schemes and so on. The concrete design scheme goes through the examination of the experts so as to determine the proper approaches for attaining the chief design target. Only when the preliminary planning and discussion have been done and it has been decided to continue to the designing stage, can the next stage of designing and anizing begin. The designing and anizing work may be treated flexibly in practice. For example, in the further development of each block of Potsdamer platz, different designing and anizing methods were adopted in accordance with the actual condition， under the guidance of the general principle. For the development of Sony Block， H. Jahn alone was in charge of the whole process from the scheme of the block to the building design plan；In the development of Daimler Chrysler and ABB amp。s Application for the Olympic Games of 2020, which was established on March 31, mittee was headed by the mayor in charge of the Olympic affairs, and its members included persons from many aspects, such as the municipal government, the programming mittee, the programming bureau, the mission of sports, the planning institute, the environmental protection bureau, the transportation bureau and so on。 To do scheme synthesizing, refining and site selection work on the basis of the subject study, expert discussion and program bidding. At the same time, another type of institution was a scientific research cooperative formed by five institutions, namely, School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Urban Planning and Design, Beijing Institute of Environmental Protection, Architectural Design Institute of Ministry of Construction, and Academy of Architectural Design of Beijing City. Its task was to do research on the programming ideas, target and related topics proposed at the previous stage, to improve and discuss them, and to make a parative study on the site selection proposal put forward at the previous stage. Example： Beijing Wangfujing Shopping Mall Promoting Urban Designing and Organizing through Conceptual Planning In the present system of China, the technical management personnel does not have a clear status in the programming system, thus, designing work is more of an act of government and will of the leadership, and the technical staff usually only play an invisible role: exerting a subtle influence on the design work. However， in recent years, with the enhancement of the level of management of urban planning, professionals take part in the earlier stage of urban planning more and more, so as to make the designing more scientific and professional. The general planning of the modification work of Beijing Wangfujing Shopping Mall was carried out with the highdegreed participation by the technical personnel. In the project, it was actually Beijing Planning Institute that helped to plete the specific design in the way of conceptual planning, and boosted decision making for the programmed target. It is a typical mode of operation in the present system of China. Now we analyze the whole decisionmaking process in the development of Wangfujingv. 1） The Process of Participation by Professionals in the Decision Making for the Development The building of Wangfujing Street started in the Yuan dynasty, so it has a history of more than 730 years now. In the Qing dynasty, it was a place for officials to have a rest after work, and at the end of the Qing dynasty it gradually changed into a highend mercial district serving the upper crust. Because Dongjiao Minxiang is a place for foreign embassies, Wangfujing is different from other popular mercial places such as Dashilan and so on: it has formed a special mercial atmosphere with a noble and modern flavor. After liberation, Wangfujing continued to develop， still keeping its position of No. 1 shopping street of Beijing. In order to meet the need to build Beijing into a firstrate modern international city in the world, Beijing municipal government decided in 1992 to introduce foreign capital and use both internal and external forces to rebuild Wangfujing Shopping Street，thus, the development of Wangfujing was in the charge of the municipal government. From 1992 to 1997， the municipal government had an Office of Development and Construction of Wangfujing Area, headed。 To provide study budget to cooperating institutions of scientific research, do task allocation and coordination work。s demand, and it was imperative to recognize, strengthen and protect the features of San Francisco, so as to arrive at a series of policies to achieve the target, and continually guide the public and the private sectors in their decision making in accordance with the program. In China, urban design activities used to be carried out chiefly by the public sector. But at present, with the