On April 17, 2016, the Seminar on “the State Ownership of Urban Land”, jointly sponsored by the Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Law, China Society of Constitutional Law, and Wang Jian Law School of Suzhou University, was successfully held in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. The seminar was attended by over 50 experts and scholars from various universities and research institutions throughout the country, including CASS Law Institute, Law School Peking University, Law School of Renmin University of China, School of Civil and Commercial Law of China University of Political Science and Law, Guanghua Law School of Zhejiang University, and Wang Jiang Law School of Suzhou University, and by reporters from such mass media as Southern Weekend and the Journal of Party School of CPC Central Committee. The seminar was divided into four sessions in which the participants gave keynote speeches and carried out discussions on various issues around the topic of state ownership of urban land, such as private-run cities on collectively-owned land, institutional safeguards for the state-ownership of urban land, reinterpretation of the provisions on land ownership in the 1982 Constitution, the normative connotation and interpretation and the historical evolution of “the state ownership of urban land”, civil law interpretation of Article 10 of the Chinese Constitution, the connection between the Constitution and civil law, the residual control rights” doctrine on the state ownership, the change of collective land ownership in “urban villages”, disputes over state ownership of urban land, contradiction between Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 3 of Article 10 of Chinese Constitution and its solution, and constitutional interpretation of “state ownership of urban land”.