Innovations and Practices in Responsible Planner System, Taking Xingfeng Sub-District in Beijing as an Example

China has entered a new stage of urban renewal, transitioning from extensive development to intensive improvement. Since 2019, responsible planners, as bridges between the government and residents, have become key and active forces in Beijing’s block renewal, who have made valuable explorations in responding to the practical demands of residents and improving the refinement of block design and public participation. At first, this article reviews the development of the responsible planner system and summarizes the work content in different stages. Secondly, working system of responsible planners with a “block-community” linkage is proposed and a closed-loop logic of "research-evaluation-implementation-feedback" is constructed. Finally, taking the renewal practice in Xingfeng Sub-district as an example, the optimizations of community governance and development path under the guidance of “responsible planners” and “participatory design” with Beijing characteristics are put forward.