Economic Councils and the Problems of Manifold Use of the Resources of Economic Regions

In their decision "Concerning the Preparation of the Long-Range Plan of Development of the U.S.S.R.'s Economy," the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R. emphasized that the complete overhauling of the management of industry and construction according to the territorial principle, and organization of Economic Councils in the economic-administrative regions, required a fundamental change in the mode of long-range and current planning by the economic-administrative regions. This has now become of special importance: "the new mode of planning makes possible the fuller use of the exceedingly rich resources of our country; makes certain the better geographic distribution of production; the solution of important problems of mastering and developing a number of new branches of industry; and the economic development of individual economic regions."