Yangcheon-gu Continues Efforts for a Green and Clean City

Gu accelerates promotion of 88 projects in 9 sectors under 5 major goals for 2020... Wins comprehensive award for eco-friendly city in 2019 Eco-City Evaluation for 2 consecutive years

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Yangcheon-gu (Mayor Kim Soo-young) announced that efforts to create a model city for climate change response will continue in 2020.

The Green City ECO Yangcheon project is a major vision project of Yangcheon-gu’s 7th elected administration, and since 2019, it has been setting and implementing tasks across 5 major goals, 9 fields, and 92 detailed items to realize the “Green and Clean Ecological City ECO Yangcheon.”

This year, based on past achievements, the 2020 implementation plan has been established, and efforts are being intensified to promote 88 projects across the 5 major goals and 9 fields.

Key projects include ▲planting 300,000 trees with volunteer tree planters called Wood Army ▲strengthening management of facilities emitting environmental pollutants ▲customized remodeling of the Mokdong central axis parks (Yangcheon Park, Paris Park) ▲eco schools and greening of school commuting routes ▲installation of rapid chargers for electric vehicles ▲annual support for installation costs of 1,000 solar mini power plants ▲and customized environmental education specialized programs.

Yangcheon-gu plans to steadily carry out the 2020 implementation plan to increase resident satisfaction from an ecological perspective and to further become a model city for climate change response by continuously promoting eco-friendly policies tailored to local characteristics.

Last year, through active project implementation, the district completed 20 projects, achieving ▲discovery of 15 new projects ▲exceeding air quality improvement targets ▲discovery and promotion of public-private cooperative projects ▲holding resident opinion reflection forums and workshops ▲completion of 4 projects proposed by residents ▲and winning the 8th Eco-friendly City Ecology Division Award.

In particular, in the air quality improvement sector, the expansion of eco-friendly condensing boilers, road dust cleaning, and the expansion of rapid electric vehicle charger installations exceeded the targets.

Especially, reflecting residents’ opinions from the climate change energy roundtable discussion into policies was a driving force in promoting the “Green City ECO Yangcheon” project.

Kim Soo-young, Mayor of Yangcheon-gu, said, “Entering the second year of the Green City ECO Yangcheon project, we will use the achievements so far as momentum to accelerate Yangcheon-gu’s steps toward becoming an ecological city,” and added, “We hope for residents’ active interest and participation in creating a green and clean ECO Yangcheon.”

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