Gwangyang City Implements 'Population Impact Review System'

Population Policy to Reflect After Review Process Until February... Expected to Support Population Growth

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Chunsu] Gwangyang City, Jeollanam-do announced on the 28th that it will conduct a ‘Population Impact Review System’ to examine whether there are any factors affecting the population before promoting major tasks this year.

The ‘Population Impact Review System’ promoted by the city is a system that suggests improvements for existing policies and implements new policies from the planning stage in a direction that contributes to population increase.

It applies to all policy projects including various facility construction projects, program support, and administrative service provision.

Since the introduction of the Population Impact Review System in 2017, the city has reflected the targets and procedures in ordinances to establish a legal basis for implementation, and carefully supplemented it by identifying some operational issues to ensure it does not become an unnecessary regulation but rather an effective system for population promotion.

Accordingly, in the 2020 work plan, the city selected 45 projects subject to population impact review across seven fields including jobs and childcare, and plans to proceed through the review process by next month to ensure they are reflected positively in population growth.

When conducting the population impact review, the project department preliminarily reviews through a first checklist whether the project is related to population increase or decrease, which population structure (class) it affects, and what the implementation strategies and performance indicators for improving the population growth rate are, and receives field-specific advice from population and related experts.

Based on these advisory results, improvement points and review opinions for population promotion are notified to the relevant departments, which then proceed with the projects by reflecting the opinions as much as possible.

Lim Chaegi, Director of Strategic Policy, said, “Through the Population Impact Review System, we will do our best to ensure that the project departments and review departments closely collaborate during the policy promotion process and that expert reviews contribute to population growth.”

Meanwhile, last year, the city implemented the ‘Population Impact Review System,’ analyzed 41 major projects in welfare, culture, and tourism, and after expert consultation, notified 15 departments of the contents to ensure they are reflected in policy improvements.