The Role of the State in Implementing Strategic Planning as a Mechanism of Reindustrialisation

The article examines the question of the reindustrialisation of Russia and the transition to a new second-generation industrial society through the development of a full-scale system of strategic planning. To this end, the author investigates various approaches to the construction of planning systems adopted in foreign countries, and proposes a method for classifying these systems according to groups of countries. A
comparison is made of the experience of devising planning systems in China and Japan, countries with different economic systems. The planning systems in China and Japan are conceptually similar in the way they are organised-both have vertical structures, with plans developed and controlled at the highest administrative level by the state. In each case these plans are drawn up by a separate state organ, exercising extremely broad powers and drawing on a wide range of people. The article explains that both
countries have succeeded in including private business in the planning system, directing the activity of business toward achieving goals that are important for the country’s economy. For Russia to attain its strategic goals, it now needs a full-scale system of state planning, with specific aims and tasks, with the resources for achieving them, and also with the ability to exercise control over the execution of plans. International experience has the capacity to help in the construction of a planning system and in the selection of methods that are best suited to current Russian conditions.