Gwangju City to Focus on Implementing 195 Projects in Administrative Innovation Action Plan

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 23rd that it has finalized the ‘2021 Gwangju Innovation Implementation Plan’ in accordance with the government innovation comprehensive promotion plan that passed the Cabinet meeting last month.

So far, Gwangju has discovered innovation tasks through the activities of the Gwangju Innovation Promotion Committee and the Citizens' Rights Committee, the operation of the Innovation TF, and inter-departmental collaboration.

This year’s Gwangju Innovation Implementation Plan will promote 195 projects across 12 tasks in 5 areas: expanding citizen participation and strengthening resident autonomy, fostering a collaborative culture for coexistence and leap forward, innovating public services that citizens can feel, trustworthy administration through improving work methods, and early overcoming of COVID-19 through cooperation and innovation.

Key projects include the activities of the Gwangju Public-Private Well Cooperation Council to prevent reckless development of Mudeungsan, the nation’s first 24/7 care service for severely disabled people, and the establishment of a specialized infectious disease hospital in the Honam region to prepare for the outbreak of high-risk new infectious diseases.

As Gwangju’s innovation brand projects, seven projects have been selected for focused promotion, including building an artificial intelligence industrial ecosystem, realizing a carbon-neutral energy self-sufficient city by 2045, the nation’s first Gwangju-type job model for labor-management coexistence, making Gwangju a good city to have and raise children, and the Gwangju-type welfare innovation model.

Joo Jae-hee, the city’s Innovation Communication Planning Officer, said, “We will do our best to systematically manage and inspect innovation tasks so that the city administration’s innovation efforts can lead to results that citizens can feel.”

Meanwhile, Gwangju secured 80 million KRW in financial incentives by achieving an excellent grade in last year’s government innovation evaluation for local governments nationwide. This year, it plans to focus all administrative capabilities to achieve excellent grades for two consecutive years in the government innovation evaluation.

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