Action: Enlightenments From Localism and Neighbourhood

concept of community action in UK, therefore, local power become increasingly important in decision-making and policy-delivery. And the Localism Act in 2011 and following planning reform bring Neighbourhood Plan and rights as well as support to communities, marked revolution of local governance. Similarly, implementation of political and economic reforms from 2013 can be understood as a prelude to social reform pursued by the new leaders of China's government. Automatically, urban-rural integrated plan is highly expected to relieve or resolve urban-rural issues especially local conflicts under the background of 'New Normal’. This article tries to make a brief summary of the background, concept, decision-making and action mechanism of localism and neighbourhood plan in the UK, using information from the government, scholars and social organizations. It considers that China is facing the same challenges of economic and environmental globalization that brings conflicts in urban-rural space. Therefore, with the core issues of interest reallocation, community empowerment becomes a key to urban-rural sustainable development. This article makes suggestions for local urban-rural integrated plan in China: Bottom-up empowerment: the reform of governance, making use of and strengthening the community culture and collective ownershi