Rooting Innovative Growth and Creating Change That Permeates Citizens' Lives
"The key focus for the remainder of the term will be to establish a solid foundation for innovative growth, strengthen the safety net in citizens' lives, and concentrate on delivering tangible results that citizens can truly experience,"
Changwon Special City Mayor Hong Nampyo is holding a press conference on the second half of the 8th term of the elected administration.
Hong Nam-pyo, Mayor of Changwon Special City in Gyeongnam, stated this during a press conference held at the City Hall Citizen Hall on the morning of the 1st, marking the second anniversary of the launch of the 8th popularly elected administration.
Mayor Hong emphasized that, for the latter half of his term, he plans to make the key tasks of the five major strategies visible and create changes that permeate citizens' lives.
He further outlined the "Implementation of Key Tasks by Five Major Strategies" as follows: ▲ First, concretize projects for innovative growth and strengthen execution capabilities ▲ Realize a Changwon where consideration and inclusiveness are part of daily life, making everyone happy ▲ Enhance the dignity befitting a city of one million people ▲ The city will create an organically connected, future-oriented city through spatial innovation. District unit plans, designed for the industrialization era 50 years ago, will be completely reorganized, including semi-industrial areas following residential and central commercial districts ▲ Realize a Changwon where the dreams of young people become reality. The long-awaited establishment of a medical school for Changwon citizens, a wish for 30 years, will be achieved without fail, and the city will actively promote the establishment of new schools to improve educational environments in various regions, such as Jinhae Jungbu High School.
In particular, regarding the normalization and completion of pending projects, Mayor Hong stated that the city will normalize long-stalled projects critical to Changwon's future based on law and principles. For Masan Marine New Town, the city will actively respond to ongoing lawsuits, complete site development by September next year, and establish new landmarks for Masan, such as the Digital Masan Free Trade Zone and Hallyu Theme Garden.
For the private development special project of Sahwa and Daesang Parks, the city will verify the appropriateness of the total project cost, and for the rental-type private investment project for buffer retention facilities, a feasibility study will be conducted to derive project plans that comply with laws and city conditions.
The Changwon Cultural Complex Town aims to open early next year, with the Cultural Foundation entrusted and experts hired within this year. For the Ungdong Complex Leisure and Tourism District, the city will pursue normalization of the project according to consultations with relevant agencies and the outcomes of administrative litigation.
Additionally, regarding the innovation of fiscal, organizational, and operational capabilities, the city has been innovating its three core internal capabilities?finance, organization, and operations?to secure driving forces for innovative growth. While the first half focused on breaking unreasonable practices, the latter half will further embed these three innovations throughout city administration to enhance innovation capabilities.
Changwon Special City Mayor Hong Nampyo is speaking about achieving visible results and improving the perception of change.
Regarding the expansion of citizen-focused projects, Mayor Hong stated that the city will intensively discover and promote projects closely tied to citizens' daily lives so that citizens can feel concrete changes.
To this end, 195 projects were identified as priorities in the first half of this year, with a budget of 46.4 billion KRW allocated in the first supplementary budget. The city will establish a master plan to connect buffer green spaces along Changwon-daero in Uichang and Seongsan districts, upgrade and enhance the Rose Park, make the Masan Chrysanthemum Festival venue permanent, devise measures to alleviate traffic congestion on Bukseong-ro, plan the restoration of Yeojwacheon, and launch high-impact projects such as establishing a new intercity and express bus transfer terminal in Jinhae.
Furthermore, to improve citizen satisfaction, the city will continuously discover and promote region-specific, citizen-focused projects such as creating a park golf course in Samjeongja Park and a barefoot walking trail in the Inland Ecological Park.
Mayor Hong expressed strong determination, stating, "We will firmly establish the foundation for innovative growth by steadily advancing the core projects initiated in the first half of the 8th popularly elected administration."
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