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History of Hokkaido development

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

· 193,483 million yen
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

· 920,483 million yen
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

· 2,318,967 million yen
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

· 6,983,486 million yen
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

· 9,525,773 million yen
1997

5,702,000 people
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