Hwaseong City Brings Together Experts and Citizens to Realize a Basic Society

Launch of 'Hwaseong-type Basic Society Promotion Team' and 'Citizen Promotion Team'
Jung Myunggeun: "Hwaseong City will be the first to lead the way toward a basic society"

Experts and citizens are coming together to develop a basic society model promoted by Hwaseong City in Gyeonggi Province.

On the 18th, Hwaseong City officially launched the 'Hwaseong-type Basic Society Promotion Team' and the 'Hwaseong-type Basic Society Citizen Promotion Team' at the Purmir Hotel.

Jung Myunggeun, Mayor of Hwaseong City, is delivering a greeting at the launch ceremony of the 'Hwaseong-type Basic Society Promotion Team' held on the 18th. Provided by Hwaseong City

This body serves as a joint public-private advisory group for realizing the basic society initiatives promoted by the city. The Promotion Team is a preliminary organization to the 'Hwaseong-type Basic Society Committee,' which is scheduled to be established next year. It acts as a temporary policy accelerator, where both the public and private sectors participate to discover, review, and advise on basic society policies.

The Promotion Team will design the concept of 'basic' across 11 fields: basic income, basic finance, basic care, basic healthcare, basic education, basic housing, basic transportation, basic safety, basic culture, basic energy, and the social economy.

The Promotion Team consists of 30 members, including 8 ex officio members such as the Second Vice Mayor and heads of relevant departments, as well as 22 appointed external experts from academia, healthcare, welfare, finance, and transportation. Their role is to advise on policies in each field and propose ways to link city policies with the basic society framework.

The Citizen Promotion Team is composed of about 70 citizens. The Citizen Promotion Team is tasked with identifying everyday issues, addressing policy blind spots, promoting public-private cooperation, and expanding consensus on policies. This is a participatory basic society model in which citizens directly propose policies and the city implements them.

Following the launch ceremony, the city plans to incorporate the opinions gathered during the subsequent workshop into new basic society policies. At the same time, it aims to further develop these into field-based basic society policies completed through direct citizen participation.

Jung Myunggeun, Mayor of Hwaseong City, stated, "The launch of this Promotion Team marks the beginning of a new social promise for all 1.06 million citizens," adding, "Hwaseong City will be the first to take the lead in becoming a city that protects the basics for its citizens and ensures that no one is left behind."

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