Naju-si Holds 1st Municipal Advisory Committee Meeting... Discussion on Key Policies

Naju City in Jeollanam-do recently held the ‘2024 1st Municipal Advisory Committee Meeting’ at the Western Hotel in Bitgaram-dong.

According to the city on the 25th, this Municipal Advisory Committee was launched in July 2023 as an advisory body to propose directions on major policies and pressing issues of the 8th elected administration.

Naju City recently held the "2024 1st Naju City Administrative Advisory Committee Meeting" at the Western Hotel in Bitgaram-dong.
[Photo by Naju City]

It is composed of 21 members, including former and current heads of institutions and organizations with extensive experience in various specialized fields, academic experts and professors, and public officials.

The advisory committee began the meeting by listening to reports on the top 10 municipal achievements of 2023 and the top 10 priority projects for 2024. They then discussed the common theme of Naju’s development through revitalization in tourism, energy, business attraction, and job creation. Fourteen advisory members, including Chairman Park Jaeyoung, attended.

In particular, the agenda items discussed included the ‘Plan to Establish Naju as a Business-Friendly City,’ ‘Strategy to Attract Artificial Sun Research Facilities,’ ‘Successful Hosting of the 2024 Naju Energy International Event and Naju Festival,’ ‘Status of Discovering National Treasury Support Projects for 2025,’ and ‘Measures to Create Relational Population Based on the Achievements of the Hometown Love Donation System.’

The members emphasized the conditions for a business-friendly city, focusing on creating an environment where companies do not leave the region but rather come to it. They called for surveys on the actual conditions and difficulties of companies located in industrial complexes, benchmarking leading cases of business attraction in other regions, setting company targets according to industrial characteristics, and actively promoting attraction activities.

In-depth suggestions were also made regarding the creation of relational populations economically, culturally, and socially connected through participation in the Hometown Love Donation System, and ways to utilize human networks during the Naju Festival and the Energy International Event.

Additionally, they mentioned the need to establish the Naju Development Corporation to study development projects tailored to the characteristics of each regional zone, install night lighting in the Lake Park, and build the Jeonnam Culture Hall to introduce cultural and artistic figures who have illuminated Jeonnam.

Meanwhile, starting this year, the Municipal Advisory Committee plans to enhance its operation by dividing into three subcommittees?Tourism & Culture, Future Industry, and Administrative Welfare?to focus intensively on related agendas.

Mayor Yoon Byung-tae said, “We ask for the valuable opinions and cooperation of the Municipal Advisory Committee so that sound public opinion on important local issues and citizens’ views can be consolidated constructively. We will thoroughly review the suggestions made by the advisory committee and reflect them in municipal administration.”

Naju = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yukbong baekok@asiae.co.kr

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