Hong Nampyo, Changwon Special Mayor, "Must Do Our Best to Accelerate Innovative Growth"

Holding Strategic Discussion on Core Tasks by Department
Selection of 119 Core and Autonomous Tasks This Year

"All departments must set clear goals and strategies, and through selection and concentration, produce concrete results to ensure that 2024 becomes a year that accelerates innovative growth,"

emphasized Hong Nam-pyo, Mayor of Changwon Special City, Gyeongnam, during a strategic discussion meeting on key tasks by department held in the city administration conference room on the afternoon of the 14th.

Hong Nampyo, Changwon Special City Mayor, is explaining the acceleration of innovative growth.

The discussion meeting, chaired by Mayor Hong, is divided by the jurisdiction of the 1st and 2nd Deputy Mayors and will be held over two days on the 14th and 15th. The city plans to use this strategic discussion as an opportunity to dispel the somewhat excited atmosphere at the beginning of the year and simultaneously put the city administration into full drive to make 2024 a year of accelerated innovative growth.

Last month, the city selected 5 to 7 tasks per department by combining the core tasks (Top-Down) that must be achieved to accelerate innovative growth with autonomous tasks (Bottom-Up) that each department has set as its own goals. During the discussion, various talks were held regarding clear goals and directions planned by each department for this year, as well as detailed strategies to achieve them.

The Planning and Coordination Office is undertaking a complete overhaul of the performance management system, shifting from a seniority-based system to one focused on work performance, and plans to achieve both transparency and soundness by operating a public disclosure system for local subsidies.

The Future Strategic Industry Bureau is concentrating all its capabilities on the new national industrial complex that will lead Changwon's future and on passing the preliminary feasibility study for the next-generation advanced complex beam irradiation facility, the largest single R&D project in Gyeongnam's history. At the same time, it is fully committed to establishing a vision for the next 50 years of the Changwon National Industrial Complex, which marks its 50th anniversary this year.

The Economy and Employment Bureau is working to promptly normalize the Changwon Cultural Complex Town, which has been stalled for several years, while the Autonomous Administration Bureau is accelerating efforts to establish Changwon Medical School, a nationwide issue. Additionally, administrative efforts will focus on changing the special city criteria, which currently apply a uniform standard of a population of 1 million, causing reverse discrimination compared to the metropolitan area.

The Maritime, Port, and Fisheries Bureau is preparing measures to normalize the Woongdong District Complex Tourism and Leisure Complex and accelerating the promotion of the Gusan Marine Tourism Complex and Masan Marine New City construction projects. Furthermore, plans are in place to prevent the recurring sardine mass deaths each year, aiming to block recurrence in advance.

Mayor Hong stated, "We cannot lead Changwon's change and innovation with complacent thinking such as 'doing as always' or 'doing it because it has been done before.'"

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