Gyeongnam Governor Kim Kyung-soo, "Opening a Bigger Gyeongnam, a Greater Future"

Southeast Mega City, Leading New Deal Smart Talent Intensive Training, Strengthening Climate Crisis Response

Governor Kim Kyung-soo is holding an online New Year's press conference at the Gyeongnam Provincial Government Office.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Saeyan] Kim Kyung-soo, Governor of Gyeongnam Province, held a New Year's press conference on the 6th and announced the 2021 provincial administration direction under the slogan "Turning Crisis into Opportunity! Greater Gyeongnam, Greater Future."

Governor Kim identified three major focus tasks for this year's provincial administration: "Establishing the Southeast Mega City Foundation," "Concentrated Training of New Deal Leading Smart Talent," and "Strengthening Climate Crisis Response."

He stated that through "Establishing the Southeast Mega City Foundation," the problem of concentration in the metropolitan area will be resolved, and another metropolitan area will be established as a new economic growth engine for Gyeongnam.

He added, "It is essential to build a convenient metropolitan public transportation network that enables a one-hour living zone throughout the entire Southeast region," and announced, "We have secured 2 billion KRW for the electric train between Bujeon and Masan, 40.6 billion KRW for the Southern Inland High-Speed Railway (Western Gyeongnam KTX), and 50 billion KRW for the construction of Yangsan Urban Railway."

He also said, "The success of the regional balanced development New Deal requires a flexible, region-led development strategy and governance system by district," and announced plans to operate a task force for promoting the Southeast Regional Special Union and to form the Southeast Regional Special Union.

Regarding "Concentrated Training of New Deal Leading Smart Talent," Governor Kim explained, "For promoting the smartization of traditional manufacturing industries and attracting advanced industries to the region, it is important to focus on training talent in the IT/SW fields," and added, "We will promote large-scale training of smart talent through attracting regional R&D innovation bases, regional innovation platforms, and public-private institutions for smart talent training."

He pointed out the difficulty of securing smart personnel for on-site companies, making it hard to secure competitiveness through technological innovation, and emphasized the urgent need for IT/SW talent training to support the development of package technologies for smartization of cooperating companies linked to technology advancement smart factories for manufacturing innovation.

He further stated, "For attracting advanced companies concentrated in the metropolitan area to Gyeongnam, the priority consideration is whether excellent related talent is secured," and announced plans to establish a customized smart talent training system using regional innovation platforms to train practical talent and attract advanced industries.

Regarding strengthening the climate crisis response, he emphasized, "Major countries worldwide are strengthening global economic regulations such as carbon emission reduction policies and the introduction of carbon border taxes," and said, "Responding to the climate crisis has become a necessity, not a choice."

To this end, the plan is to produce 30% of total power demand from renewable energy by 2030 and reduce greenhouse gases by 60%, and to establish a recycling circulation system for end-of-life vehicle recycling to reduce environmental pollution and conserve natural resources.

He also mentioned the response to the COVID-19 crisis.

He stated that through flexible operation of the comprehensive situation room, establishment of dedicated organizations, customized quarantine, public-private cooperation, joint infectious disease response with Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam, and the Gyeongnam regional COVID-19 joint response system, proactive and systematic quarantine against COVID-19 will continue.

He also explained livelihood economic measures to minimize the economic shock caused by COVID-19 through emergency disaster relief payments, the Good Landlord Movement, expansion of public Zero Pay, and support for workers in employment blind spots.

Meanwhile, the province, which set climate crisis response as a key task for this year's administration, produced all materials related to the press conference using eco-friendly materials, and the stage background of Governor Kim's press conference also utilized eco-friendly images in its design.

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