As an important planning to guide urban and rural development and construction，urban and rural overall planning must have a strong system as a guarantee.

Based on the analysis of the significance of improving the urban and rural planning system，the current situation of urban and rural planning in Henan Province，and the reasons for the lack of system guarantee in the process of practice，the basic idea of urban and rural planning system is preliminarily designed，and the policy system of urban and rural planning，the type and content of urban and rural planning，the management system of urban and rural planning are proposed The five key tasks of improving the urban and rural overall planning system are to establish the supervision and assessment system of urban and rural overall planning，and improve the public participation system of urban and rural overall planning.