Abstract: National planning is an effective means to promote Chinese modernization, and its evolution provides support and impetus for subsequent planning in both theory and practice. The 14 Five-Year plans implemented since the founding of the People’s Republic of China have played an important role in the process of the Chinese path to modernization. These plans promote Chinese modernization through three mechanisms: the first is to clarify the modernization development goals with specific tasks which arecontinuously and dynamically adjusted; the second is to guide the regional modernization development through the optimization of resource allocation and industrial layout; the third is to clarify the development ideas to ensure the steady and long-term progress on the path of modernization.The role of national planning in promoting the realization of Chinese modernization is quite obvious, and the ability of national planning promoting Chinese modernization is constantly enhanced. The experience of promoting Chinese modernization with national planning lies in adhering to the CCP’s leadership in the formulation of the planning of Chinese modernization, so as to prevent potential risks with full investigation, to determine effective targets with realistic orientation, and to provide error correction mechanism with the two-stage evaluation. On the basis of summarizing the experiences of promoting Chinese path to modernization through national planning, the 14th Five-Year Plan and the future national planning of Chinese modernization need to adhere to the basic position of socialist market economy, coordinate the relationship between macro-control and market development, stick to the high quality development to promote the new journey of Chinese modernization, and promote the transformation of service-oriented government with government positioning and function transformation.

Key words: national planning, Chinese path to modernization, historical experience, effect evaluation