The city-region planning is neither an urban nor a rural one alone but a comprehensiveplanning concerned with both center and periphery inside a municipal area smaller citics. Thisarticle is responded to the requirement of territorial and urban planning work advanccd bythe central and local governments. The authors try to estabish the basic theme and generalprocedure of this planing work and select Zhucheng county-grade municipality as an empiri-can scheme.The first section of the paper analyses the geographical location and economic hinter-land of Zhucheng from the viewpoints of economic geography.