| Time 
      classification | Special 
      development features | Development 
      projects and major measures | The track 
      record of funds | Population | 
   
    | 1st term comprehensive development 
      plan stage (1952-1962)
 [First five year plan]
 | Tapping of resources | 
         
          |   | First five year Hokkaido 
            comprehensive development plan (1952-1956)
 |  
         
          | · | Power supply development |   
          | · | Maintenance and expansion 
            of roads, harbors, rivers, etc. |   
          | · | Increased food production |   
          | · | Basic development investigation |   
          | · | Population: 6 million 
            people |   
          | · | Fund: 433,500 million 
            yen (Includes 130 billion yen for public works)
 |  | 
         
          |   | Development project costs |  
 
         
          | · | First 5 year plan 77,722 million yen
 |  
 
         
          | · | 1957 22,040,850,000 yen (Carried out in 1957 by the second five year plan outline of Hokkaido 
            comprehensive development)
 |  | 1957 
 4,879,000 people
 | 
   
    | 1st term comprehensive development 
      plan stage (1952-1962)
 [Second five year plan]
 | Promotion of industry | 
         
          |   | Second five year Hokkaido 
            comprehensive development plan (1958-1962)
 |  
         
          | · | Reinforcement of industrial 
            infrastructure including roads and harbors |   
          | · | Power supply development |   
          | · | Development of a land 
            conservation facilities |   
          | · | Expansion and strengthening 
            of the agricultural infrastructure |   
          | · | Improvement of productivity 
            of agriculture-and-fishery industry |   
          | · | Positive development of 
            mine industry |   
          | · | Improvement of cultural-welfare-labor 
            facilities |   
          | · | Population: 5,500,000 
            people |   
          | · | Fund: 660 billion yen |  | 
         
          |   | Development project costs |  
 | 1962 
 5,101,000 people
 | 
   
    | 2nd term comprehensive development 
      plan stage (1963-1970)
 | Advancement of industrial structure | 
         
          | · | Modernization of agriculture-and-fishery 
            industry |   
          | · | Promoting positive development 
            of mine industry |   
          | · | Establishment of a comprehensive 
            transport-and-communication system |   
          | · | Comprehensive promotion 
            of land conservation and irrigation |   
          | · | Maintenance and expansion 
            of social and life environmental facilities |   
          | · | Strengthening development 
            of industrial technology, technical education, and training, and developing 
            a base for a smooth labor power migration |   
          | · | Population: 5,860,000 
            people |   
          | · | Fund: 3,300 billion yen (Including 940 billion yen for administration investment, and 2,360 
            billion yen for government and private enterprise investment)
 |  | 
         
          |   | Development project costs |  
 | 1970 
 5,184,000 people
 | 
   
    | 3rd term comprehensive development 
      plan stage (1971-1977)
 | Construction of high production 
      and high quality welfare society | 
         
          | · | Promotion of modernistic 
            industry development |   
          | · | Strengthening the social 
            infrastructure |   
          | · | Establishment of new transport, 
            communication and energy delivery system |   
          | · | Land preservation and 
            water resource development |   
          | · | Promotion of nature preservation 
            and tourism development |   
          | · | Improvement of core city 
            blocs and formation of a broader sphere of life |   
          | · | Population: 6 million 
            people |   
          | · | Fund: 20,750 billion yen (Including 8,550 billion yen government investment, and 12,200 billion 
            yen private enterprise investment)
 |  | 
         
          |   | Development project costs |  
 | 1977 
 5,443,000 people
 | 
   
    | New comprehensive development 
      plan stage (1982-1991)
 | Formation of a stable comprehensive 
      environment | 
         
          | · | Improvement of the development 
            base of basic industries |   
          | · | Formation of a core management 
            base |   
          | · | Improvement of urban and 
            rural area environment |   
          | · | Improvement of the basic 
            transport-and-communication system |   
          | · | Improvement of water resource 
            development facilities |   
          | · | Ensuring safety through 
            infrastructure such as land preservation |   
          | · | Formation of northern 
            social and culture environment |   
          | · | Development of local comprehensive 
            environmental blocs |   
          | · | Population: 6,200,000 
            people |   
          | · | Fund: 47,100 billion yen (Including 18,100 billion yen government investment, and 29 trillion 
            yen private enterprise equipment investment)
 |  | 
         
          |   | Development project costs |  
 | 1987 
 5,671,000 people
 | 
   
    | 5th term comprehensive development 
      plan (1988-1997)
 | Formation of powerful Hokkaido 
      that will contribute to the long-term development of our country, and compete 
      equally both inside and outside of the country | 
         
          | · | Formation of the flexible 
            and active industries |   
          | · | Formation of advanced 
            transport and information-communication networks |   
          | · | Formation of safe and 
            comfortable communities |   
          | · | Population: 6,200,000 
            peopleFrom a global point of view, establis |   
          | · | Fund: 60 trillion yen 
            (Gross investment) (Including 40 trillion yen land infrastructure investment, in a broad 
            sense)
 |  | 
         
          |   | Development project costs |  
 | 1997 
 5,702,000 people
 |