In accordance with the national strategic demands that "advancing the modernization of national governance system and governance capacity", the urban planning, as the policy tool, has been included in the reform of governance modernization. This paper makes an analysis of the characteristics of the mainstream in Western urban planning, considering the Western urban planning which is a subject solving city problems certainly goes with "the problem-orientated" and follows the circulation from "problem to new theory to new problem" as a whole. Influenced by Western planning theory and lacking thought about localization after reform and opening up of more than 30 years, China has been put into the circulation of "the problemorientated" of Western planning development. This paper introduces the philosophy of Lao Zi, and establishes an integral theory framework based on ontology, epistemology, methodology and theory of human nature to resolve the predicaments in planning transformation.