Im Taek, Dong-gu Mayor, "Focusing All Efforts on Building a Happy Dong-gu for Residents Next Year"

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Lim Taek, Mayor of Dong-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City, announced on the 24th, "We will make 2021, which prepares for the post-COVID-19 daily life era, the inaugural year of the 'Second Leap of Dong-gu,' focusing all our efforts on building a happy Dong-gu for residents by restoring regional economic dynamism, revitalizing local tourism using cultural resources, and realizing autonomous communities."

Mayor Lim said, "Since the launch of the 7th local government administration, over the past two years and five months, we have achieved meaningful changes both internally and externally, such as ranking first in the happiness index in the Honam region, recovering a population of 100,000, and receiving the Presidential Citation in the evaluation of local government administrative capabilities, being selected as 'the most livable local government nationwide.'"

He added, "We have laid the foundation for promoting key district projects by securing a record budget of 146.5 billion KRW during the 7th local government administration, including 41.7 billion KRW this year, such as 4 billion KRW in national and city funds for the 'Asia Culture Plaza Content Creation Project' to develop the National Asia Culture Center area into a world-class tourist attraction."

Mayor Lim presented five goals to contribute to the high value-added of key industries that will become Dong-gu's future new growth engines in 2021 and to improve residents' quality of life.

First, by creating customized jobs, we plan to build a regional economic community and meet diverse job expectations suitable for the Fourth Industrial Revolution era.

Dong-gu will proceed with the second phase of the linked project for continuous promotion after completing the first phase infrastructure construction of the AI-based healthcare startup incubation platform project. It will also take the lead in resolving youth unemployment through projects such as the youth digital job project and the vacant house 'Youth Startup' filling project.

Second, the plan is to create a vibrant urban environment through improving residential conditions in the old downtown and urban regeneration led by local residents.

Starting next year, the 'Kko(Flower)Dume Village Urban Regeneration Recognition Project' will be fully promoted, along with the Dongmyeong-dong and Printing Street Urban Regeneration New Deal projects, Seongyo urban development project, and Gyerim 7 District redevelopment maintenance project, all to be carried out without delay.

Additionally, efforts will be concentrated on creating a 'Resource Circulation Green New Deal Dong-gu' aiming to reduce total waste generation by 15% by 2022.

Third, realizing healthy and happy community welfare through customized policies that respond to residents' diverse needs.

Based on the results of the single-person household survey, comprehensive measures will be established to promote customized support policies for single-person households in areas such as housing stability, social networks, and care.

In particular, based on the basic welfare standards first established among all basic local governments nationwide, efforts will be intensified to build a detailed local welfare network that residents can feel, including children, women, and the elderly.

Fourth, activating local tourism and expanding the foundation for culture, arts, and community sports based on the cultural resources possessed by the region.

Projects utilizing various human and material cultural tourism resources throughout Dong-gu will be discovered to contribute to local tourism activation, and non-face-to-face community sports activities will be strengthened in preparation for the COVID-19 era to promote health and leisure culture.

Finally, realizing an autonomous community of participation and cooperation based on a humanistic city.

Efforts will be made to systematically organize the humanistic ecosystem, such as operating the 'Dong-gu Humanistic Walking Trail' connecting major humanistic assets possessed by Dong-gu. Policies to expand residents' participation in district administration, such as village community centers and conversion to residents' autonomy councils, will also be strengthened.

Mayor Lim Taek of Dong-gu said, "Based on the achievements of the first half of the 7th local government administration, from the second half, we will fully promote key projects together with 100,000 Dong-gu residents to enhance their completeness," adding, "We will transform Dong-gu into a city that people want to visit and live in, and a cultural tourism city with a promising future, so that small changes accumulate to create significant changes that everyone can feel."

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