This thesis focuses on China's spatial governance and planning system, reflecting on its potential and effectiveness in the aim to position it within the main international comparisons and classifications. The research background stems from China's efforts to reconstruct its national spatial governance system starting in 2019, attempting to optimize spatial planning through top-down institutional reforms and bottom-up "integrated multi-planning" pilot projects to address the challenges of globalization, regional integration, and rapid urbanization. The study adopts a comprehensive comparative research method, combining theoretical analysis and practices examinations, intending to uncover the strengths and shortcomings of China's present spatial governance and planning system, and on the basis of the latter, to position it within the most relevant classifications developed in Europe in the last decades.