Gwangju City Holds First Win-Win Meeting of Deputy Heads of City and Autonomous Districts

Kim Jong-hyo, Deputy Mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City, is holding a win-win meeting with deputy district heads of autonomous districts in the Deputy Mayor's office on the morning of the 23rd to discuss current issues. Photo by Gwangju Metropolitan City

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] On the 23rd, Gwangju Metropolitan City held the 1st Win-Win Meeting of Deputy Heads of City and District at City Hall to share current issues between the city and autonomous districts as partners in local administration and discuss policies.

The Win-Win Meeting of Deputy Heads of City and District is a forum established to build an organic cooperation system that can jointly respond to regional issues, as communication and cooperation between metropolitan and basic local governments have become prominent in the full-fledged era of Autonomy and Decentralization 2.0. It is scheduled to be held every two months.

The meeting, chaired by Deputy Mayor Kim Jong-hyo, was attended by five deputy heads, who shared each district's representative policies (projects) for this year and innovation tasks in the field of civil service improvement, and discussed agenda items for the 6th City-District Win-Win Meeting.

This year's representative policies (projects) by district include ▲(Dong-gu) Creation of the ‘Kko(kot)dume’ resource circulation village where garbage turns into flowers ▲(Seo-gu) Establishment of Seo-gu Facility Management Corporation ▲(Nam-gu) Baegun Square Urban Regeneration New Deal Project ▲(Buk-gu) Designation of a special drone free zone to promote drone commercialization ▲(Gwangsan-gu) Happiness-euro Walking Gwangsan Project.

In particular, at this meeting, innovation tasks in the field of civil service improvement, which has the closest contact with citizens, were discussed. Each district plans to promote ▲(Dong-gu) Expansion of the Honorary Administrative (Consultation) Officer system in our neighborhood to the Gwangju area ▲(Seo-gu) Construction of Gwangju Integrated Mobile Platform ▲(Nam-gu) Friendly and prompt civil service ‘Man-to-man Red Pen’ ▲(Buk-gu) Demand-centered ‘Gwangju Hanaro’ online civil service operation ▲(Gwangsan-gu) Innovation tasks for 365 non-face-to-face civil services using Gwangju imap.

Also, for the agenda items of the 6th City-District Win-Win Meeting to be held next month, three items were selected as city administration current issues to be discussed and promoted: ▲(Dong-gu) Support for non-regular workers in cultural lectures with livelihood stabilization funds ▲(Nam-gu) Proposal for securing medical personnel for COVID-19 vaccination ▲(Gwangsan-gu) Request for additional integrated installation of child abuse victim shelters in Gwangju.

Deputy Mayor Kim Jong-hyo said, “We will regularize the Win-Win Meeting of Deputy Heads of City and District as a continuous communication channel that can strengthen city-district win-win cooperation, breaking away from the existing city-district meetings that mainly conveyed city cooperation matters and district proposals.”

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