ABSTRACT
Humans have always struggled with the chaos and uncertainty of existence. In this sense, planning is the next step compared to non-planning, for example, with the market in achieving a higher level of sustainability in the socioeconomic system. The experience of China, which has not abandoned planning as an institution and an instrument of development management, indicates that both the economy and society are moving toward a new type of noo-industrial society using such tools. The federal, regional, and municipal levels must be in harmony with each other since it would be impossible to build or implement a long-term strategy without similar work on long-term visioning and strategic planning in the regions. Practice proves that excluding strategic planning from the main instruments of public administration leads to prevailing inertia in development, an inability to overcome the “rut effect”, accumulation of systemic risks, and does not allow for the achievement of any ambitious goals.
