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CHINA’S IMPLEMENTATION OF STATE REGIONAL POLICY: LESSONS FOR RUSSIA
The present article complements and completes the article “State Regulation of Spatial Development in China (with Reference to the North-Eastern and Western Macroregions)”, Region: Economics and Sociology, 2025, No. 4. Drawing on the example of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the PRC, it examines the experience of development and state support of a typical resource-based region, similar in its natural, climatic, and resource conditions to the regions of southern Asian Russia, but which, unlike the latter, has managed to implement an effective program of modernization and diversification of production. We look at the ideology and nature of economic reforms in China and how they have affected spatial development processes. We highlight the common features of the spatial structure of Russia and China as the world’s largest countries in terms of territory, with very large differences between their regions in terms of natural and climatic conditions, resource availability, and transport accessibility. The study shows that they are united by the common problem of a significant spatial “gap” in the levels of economic and social development of their regions, and examines the main differences between Russia and China in addressing this problem. This study demonstrates that China is effectively shaping a new quality of its space, purposefully increasing its connectivity through the implementation of major infrastructure projects. We look at the main parts of China’s positive experience with state regulation of spatial development and see how it could be used in Russia. We point out that institutional factors and conditions are the weakest link in modernizing the Chinese and Russian development models and their spatial segments.
Seliverstov V. Ye. sel@ieie.nsc.ru
Keywords: institutional conditions regulatory and legal regimes for stimulating and supporting reforms in China the Belt and Road Initiative strategic planning spatial connectivity cross-border interactions infrastructure projects macro-regions of the PRC regional policy of Russia spatial development of China
The Law Is Adopted, The Questions Remain
Based on the Proceedings of the XIII All-Russian Forum “Strategic planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia: Revisioning Strategies, Renewing Meanings” (St. Petersburg, October 2014) and the poll among representatives of regional and local authorities, there have been identified difficulties and obstacles that regions will face in the implementation of the Federal Law No. 172. “On the Strategic Planning in the Russian Federation”
Lebedeva N. A. lebedeva.n@iresras.ru
Keywords: social and economic development region strategic planning socio-economic development strategic planning
«Collective Prediction» as a by-Product of Regional Strategic Planning
The paper analyses the quality of strategies of socio-economic development for regions of Russia. It also considers the perspectives opened by these strategies being available for regional research, namely, for evaluating the appropriateness of optimistic expectations and the reasonability of regions' economic growth forecasts. The article creates a growth forecast for Russia's economy from isolated regional forecasts, estimates its basic parameters and represents it as an outcome of «collective prediction» of regions that is to be verified. This empirical study is based on the available strategies of socio-economic development of the subjects of the Russian Federation up to 2020-2030. The method includes the following steps: collection and systematization of strategies' forecasts; transformation of expected outcomes of strategies into compatible indicators and their consolidation across federal districts; comparative analysis of the consolidated forecasts with the all-round forecast of Russia's economic development, made on the basis of a multiregional input-output model. It is revealed that optimistic growth forecasts for the GRP may often be overestimated and not coordinated with investment forecasts. In order to evaluate the achievability of forecasted regional economic development indices, we used a spatial input-output model that is capable to produce a forecast in view of resource constraints, interregional and intersectoral interactions on the scale of the national economy. Moderate forecasts are inherent mostly in highly developed regions. Excessive optimistic projections over a balanced forecast may serve as an indicator of interregional competition for investment. Scarcity of labor is evaluated by comparing consolidated regional demographic forecasts with the official demographic forecast by the Russian Federal State Statistics Service
Melnikova L. V. melnikova@ieie.nsc.ru
Keywords: strategic planning долгосрочный прогноз межрегиональная модель «затраты-выпуск»
Regional Economy and Spatial Development: Critical Notes
The article contains a review of the book «Regional economics and spatial developments This edition is a new major milestone in the Russian educational literature, and it will certainly be popular among teachers and students in the related specialties both at the economics departments and at the area of state and municipal management. At the same time, the paper makes a number of comments and gives a few suggestions (e.g. no special section devoted to modeling spatial development of the country as a system of interacting regions, insufficient reflection of the domestic experience of regional and interregional modeling; not enough criticism when actual conditions of spatial development and regional policy in Russia are presented) which may be taken into account in the next edition of the book
Seliverstov V. Ye. sel@ieie.nsc.ru
Keywords: regional economy regional policy regional policy strategic planning spatial planning mechanisms of development regional economics spatial development regional policy
The Declared and Actual Priorities of Regional and Local Authorities: How to Identify and Compare
The paper analyzes the approaches which could allow identifying, comparing and explaining a correspondence (or discrepancy) between the declared priorities of the socio-economic policies carried out by regional or municipal authorities (for example, strategic plans) and actual one (for example, those reflecting how public funds are handled). We tested such approaches for several city districts of the North-West areas of Russia through decomposing the project documents and using tools of budget analysis to show that representation and comparison of such declared and actual priorities in a formal manner is principally realizable.
Zhikharevich B. S. zhikh@leontief.ru
Rusetskaya O. V. olga@leontief.spb.su
Keywords: priority principles of federalism strategic planning fiscal policy strategic planning budget expenditures municipality region
Building organizational and economic mechanisms of the accelerated socio-economic development in Siberia
The paper considers the issues of building organizational and economic mechanisms required to strengthen a position of Siberia in the Russian economic space. Our proposals concern such issues as how to modernize the regional policy and regional strategic planning, to ensure the implementation of the Siberian Socio-Economic Development Strategy and innovations in regions, and to build economic mechanisms required for developing production in this macroregion. A special focus is the radical modernization of a Siberian resource complex.
Kriukov V. A. kryukov@ieie.nsc.ru
Kuleshov V. V. ieie@ieie.nsc.ru
Seliverstov V. Ye. sel@ieie.nsc.ru
Keywords: Siberia development mechanisms regional policy strategic planning region
Municipal strategic planning: reliability and failures factors
The paper analyzes the strategic planning practiced by municipalities. We show and assess what risk factors are if municipal strategic plans would be developed and applied. We offer our approach which allows foreseeing the risks and reliability of municipal strategic planning.
Petrov I. V. amaterasu.petrov@yandex.ru
Keywords: strategic planning local governance strategic planning local self-governance factors of sustainability
Strategic planning of intersectoral resource megaprojects: technologic-organizing aspects
The paper considers the characteristic features of intersectoral megapro-jects, the place which such projects play in a system of governmental strategic planning and management, and a necessity of administrative procedures to coordinate both strategic interests and investment policies of the government and business. We offer our methodological approach to building technologic-organizing schemes of strategic planning and management though applying tools of modeling. We also suggest the mechanisms to coordinate the investment decisions made by participants involved in megaprojects - such mechanisms include indicators which assess whether management schemes of implementation of investment program in such megaprojects are well balanced and effective.
Pliaskina N. I. pliaskina@hotmail.com
Kharitonova V. N. kharit@ieie.nsc.ru
Keywords: strategic planning management strategic planning management hydrocarbon resources technologic-organizing schemes megaprojects coordination of interests coordination mechanisms management indicators system of indicators
An approach to assessing efficiency of strategic planning at the municipal level
The task is to find the technique for empiric study which could allow identifying how a number of factors, including a technology of planning, can impact the long-term efficiency and effectiveness of municipal strategic plans. We present the results of our study where reliability of municipal strategic plans was a criterion of such assessment.
Zhikharevich B. S. zhikh@leontief.ru
Keywords: strategic planning local governance strategic planning
Strategic planning as a factor of cooperative competitiveness
The paper analyses the cooperation of competitors (cooperative competitiveness), and it introduces a notion of cooperative competitiveness and its economic treatment. The author shows how a spatial strategic planning may positively influence the institutional environment through stimulating innovations and cooperative competitiveness both between and inside regions which could result in better socio-economic development. Potentially negative impacts of cooperative competitiveness are also analyzed.
Zhikharevich B. S. zhikh@leontief.ru
Keywords: region strategic planning innovation development region strategic planning innovation development
Regional monitoring as an informational and managerial base for regional policy and strategic planning
The paper analyses the methodological issues of building regional monitoring systems (to monitor regional situations and problems) as well as the best practices of such informational and monitoring systems. The paper also considers the approaches appropriate to formimg a socio-economic block of the Monitoring System of the Socio-Economic and Environmental Situation Center for the Siberian Federal District.
Seliverstov V. Ye. sel@ieie.nsc.ru
Keywords: monitoring region region informational systems indicators strategic planning regional policy
