Chungcheong Region Long-Term Development Direction 'Metropolitan Urban Plan' Confirmed and Announced

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The ‘2040 Happy City Region Metropolitan Urban Plan (hereinafter referred to as the Metropolitan Urban Plan)’, which presents the long-term development direction of the Chungcheong region, has received final approval from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

According to Daejeon City and others on the 16th, the Metropolitan Urban Plan presents the long-term development direction for the four cities and provinces of the Chungcheong region: Daejeon, Sejong, Chungnam, and Chungbuk.

Previously, in 2018, the four cities and provinces of the Chungcheong region and the Administrative City Construction Agency (Happy Agency) agreed that the existing Metropolitan Urban Plan, which had been in place for over 10 years, needed to be reestablished to reflect changed conditions.

In May of the following year, an agreement on the reestablishment of the Metropolitan Urban Plan was signed, and after a four-year preparation period, the plan was completed.

Through this process, the Metropolitan Urban Plan, which received final approval from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, presents the Chungcheong region’s joint ▲goals and strategies ▲key indicators ▲spatial structure concept and functional division plan ▲sectoral plans ▲adjustment of development restriction zones ▲execution and management.

In particular, the metropolitan plan includes expanding the scope from the existing 9 cities and counties (3,597㎢) to 22 cities and counties (12,193㎢) to resolve overlapping issues between regions, thereby forming a single integrated Happy City metropolitan planning zone.

The reorganized metropolitan planning zone includes Daejeon, Sejong, 8 cities and counties in Chungbuk (excluding Chungju, Jecheon, and Danyang), and 12 cities and counties in Chungnam (excluding Dangjin, Seosan, and Taean).

The four cities and provinces of the Chungcheong region and the Happy Agency expect the Metropolitan Urban Plan to serve as a catalyst for the recently emerging mega-city project, a super-regional cooperation system.

This means that the Chungcheong region, unified under the concept of a metropolitan city, will be fostered as a new national engine, enabling the realization of national balanced development policy goals through the completion of administrative functions, fostering future science and technology and new industries, improving job and residential environment services, strengthening the placement of metropolitan facilities and transportation connections for mutual development, and jointly responding to current issues such as carbon neutrality, climate change, and regional extinction.

Jang Il-sun, Director of the City Housing Bureau, said, “The Metropolitan Urban Plan will become a role model leading the resolution of overpopulation problems in the metropolitan area and balanced development.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.