Unbalanced with its rapid development in urban construction and economy,China’s social development is lagging behind a fair amount.As an important policy means to guarantee social equity and public benefit,urban planning should play its inevitable role in solving social problems and promoting harmonious social development,while at the same time it exposes certain limitations of traditional Chinese urban planning mainly focusing on physical planning in both theoretical and methodological aspects.Aimed at the relevant social problems caused by simple physical planning at present,this article attempts to study out a research framework of social planning suitable for China’s urban planning as a monographic study,so as to introduce a people-oriented view of social development into the key contents of urban planning,and to provide ameliorative strategies to supplement and improve the planning concept,procedure,contents and methods.This article also briefly introduces the perspectives and key contents of social planning. Unbalanced with its rapid development in urban construction and economy, China’s social development is lagging behind a fair amount. As an important policy means to guarantee social equity and public benefit, urban planning should play its inevitable role in solving social problems and promoting harmonious social development , while at the same time it exposes certain limitations of traditional Chinese urban planning mainly focusing on physical planning in both theoretical and methodological aspects. Aimed at the relevant social problems caused by simple physical planning at present, this article attempts to study out a research framework of social planning suitable for China’s urban planning as a monographic study, so as to introduce a people-oriented view of social development into the key contents of urban planning, and to provide ameliorative strategies to supplement and improve the planning concept, procedure, contents and methods.This article also briefly introduces the perspectives and key contents of social planning.