Guri-si Takes Benchmarking Steps to Attract Companies for Leap to Self-Sufficient City

Development of Self-Sufficient Land in Topyeong 2 District and New Growth Innovation Industry in Sanodong Technovalley

Guri City is actively benchmarking to attract new growth innovative industries to the urban support facility site within the Guritopyeong 2 public housing district and the Technovalley site in the Sano-dong e-commerce new growth advanced city.

The city of Guri, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Baek Kyung-hyun) announced on the 1st that it has begun full-scale benchmarking to attract new growth innovative industries to the urban support facility site (self-sufficient function site) within the Guri Topyeong 2 Public Housing District (hereinafter referred to as Topyeong 2 District) and the Techno Valley site within the Sano-dong e-commerce new growth advanced city.

The Topyeong 2 District is an area announced last November as a new housing site candidate as a follow-up measure to the government's 'Housing Supply Activation Plan,' aiming for district designation in the first half of next year.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has presented a blueprint to develop this area into a city that harmoniously combines high-quality residential complexes with a view of the Han River, including new growth innovative industrial complexes, cultural complex spaces, mixed-use centers, and public facility complexes, along with self-sufficient facilities for job creation and waterfront leisure and relaxation spaces.

The Sano-dong Techno Valley aims to create an economically self-sufficient city by attracting companies and research facilities (R&D) based on the 4th industrial revolution sectors such as medical, bio, and ICT (Information and Communication Technology), and is currently making every effort to pass the preliminary feasibility study.

Guri City visited the Gyeonggi Housing and Urban Corporation (GH) Pangyo Project Team on the 24th to learn from the excellent case of Pangyo Techno Valley, a representative example of a self-sufficient city.

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Additionally, on the 30th of last month, the city visited Goyang City Hall, which is focusing on creating the 'Goyang-type Silicon Valley' after being designated as Ilsan Techno Valley and an economic free zone, to compare and observe successful cases of corporate attraction and local government investment attraction activities.

Furthermore, visits to Yangju in Gyeonggi Province and Wonju in Gangwon Province, which are successfully developing techno valleys, are also planned for benchmarking.

Through this benchmarking, the city plans to apply the creation of cooperative ecosystems among companies in the techno valley, cases of improving residential conditions, strategies for attracting anchor companies and foreign companies, etc., tailored to the circumstances of Guri City.

While planning the Guri Techno Valley, the city conducted a demand survey for tenant intentions and secured letters of intent from a total of 272 companies as of October, achieving a demand area of 663%, and has been actively moving forward by signing MOUs with 18 companies.

A city official stated, “We will not be satisfied with this and will continue additional surveys, while also preparing measures to avoid overlap and ensure mutual complementarity of the industries to be attracted, considering the locational characteristics of the Topyeong 2 District and Sano-dong Techno Valley.”

Mayor Baek Kyung-hyun said, “I hope that the Guri Techno Valley will be implemented promptly by studying many advanced cases, establishing concrete corporate attraction strategies, and thoroughly preparing the foundation and infrastructure expansion for a high-tech corporate city.”

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