The Committee of Landscape Architecture, abbreviated as CSUS-CLA, was founded in 2016, and is a branch under the Chinese Society for Urban Studies (CSUS). Chinese Society for Urban Studies (CSUS) is affiliated to the China Association for Science and Technology, and attached to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China.

CSUS-CLA was co-founded by a number of experts and scholars from the fields of ecology, geography, water conservancy engineering, soil and water conservation, architecture, urban planning, environmental engineering, civil engineering, landscape architecture and rural construction. It has more than 200 individual members from universities, research institutions and enterprises, and more than 30 corporate members, until the end of 2021.