What Are the Interim Results of Gyeongnam Province's 4 Major National Projects Special Response Team?

Discovery of 69 Related Projects Including Jinhae New Port and Southern Inland Railroad

An interim performance report meeting of the special task force for proactive response to the four major national projects in Gyeongsangnam-do is being held. [Image source=Gyeongnam Provincial Government]

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seryeong] On the afternoon of the 23rd, Gyeongsangnam-do held a mid-term performance report meeting of the special team for proactive response to the four major national projects in the provincial government meeting room.

Gyeongnam Province announced that the report meeting was held to establish a new axis of economic growth in the region in connection with large-scale national projects such as Jinhae New Port, Gadukdo New Airport, Southern Inland Railroad, and the 2030 Busan World Expo.

It explained that a separate working group of 51 experts in each field was formed to gather field-centered ideas in three subcommittees: urban/transportation/logistics, industry/economy, and culture/tourism.

It added that through six subcommittee meetings and several expert consultations, a total of 69 tasks were discovered.

According to the province, at the report meeting held that day, the future vision of Gyeongnam developed based on the tri-port including the new port, new airport, and connected transportation network was drawn, and strategies and directions for linkage with national projects to enable a leap forward were presented.

The urban/transportation/logistics subcommittee proposed a strategy emphasizing the importance of introducing future transportation systems such as Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and autonomous driving to expand the nationwide two-hour metropolitan transportation network and develop hinterland cities.

Accordingly, 29 tasks were discovered, including ▲expansion of logistics-only highways ▲introduction and operation of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) ▲operation of autonomous freight vehicles ▲operation of future airport shuttle vehicles ▲creation of an air city.

The industry/economy subcommittee announced tasks according to the strategy that establishing a next-generation industrial base and building a startup ecosystem are important for creating a tri-port new growth industry cluster.

These include 19 tasks such as ▲creation of a hydrogen-specialized complex-linked ecosystem ▲creation of a bio-health industry ecosystem ▲attraction of a Gyeongnam-type semiconductor specialized complex and technology development ▲establishment of a Gyeongnam-type startup-entrepreneurship planner ecosystem.

The culture/tourism subcommittee stated that to realize a leap in global Gyeongnam tourism through an advanced metropolitan transportation network and the Busan World Expo, large-scale tourism development in the South Coast area and specialized tourism infrastructure in the Jirisan area are necessary.

They proposed 21 tasks including ▲creation of Jangmok tourism complex and introduction of high-end accommodation facilities ▲construction of the South Coast Convention Center ▲creation of South Coast extended reality (XR) tourism transportation infrastructure ▲creation of Gyeongnam video complex industrial complex ▲creation of Gyeongnam Rest (休) Wellness.

The special response team plans to summarize the response measures by integrating the tasks discovered so far and the opinions proposed at the performance report meeting, and from next year, to specify unit projects to realize these and prepare implementation plans.

Choi Man-rim, Deputy Governor, said, “Please make earnest efforts so that the large-scale national projects to be realized within about 10 years through solid preparation and promotion of the tasks discovered so far can become a stepping stone for sustainable growth of our region.”

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