Establishing Strategies to Incorporate
GTX and Jungdong Phase 1 New Town Reconstruction
Bucheon City in Gyeonggi Province is launching a full-scale initiative to develop a future innovation strategy in line with the government’s five-year national policy plan.
On August 18, Bucheon City announced that it will operate a dedicated task force (TF) to respond to the 123 national policy tasks put forth by the government, with the aim of ensuring that key municipal issues are reflected in the detailed implementation plans of central government ministries.
This initiative is intended to proactively establish Bucheon’s own future innovation action strategy in accordance with the direction of each new government policy task, and to actively incorporate the city’s policies and key issues into the specific implementation plans of each ministry.
The task force will be led by Vice Mayor Nam Dongkyung and will feature a continuous monitoring system centered on the departments in charge of each national policy task. The city plans to closely analyze the details of the national policy tasks, actively identify related projects, and, based on this, develop detailed action plans and strategies to secure national funding linked to these tasks.
Through the operation of this task force, the city plans to focus on fostering K-content industries such as webtoons, promoting the reconstruction of the Jungdong Phase 1 New Town, undergrounding the Gyeongin Line, expediting the commencement of GTX (Greater Seoul Metropolitan Express Railway) Line B, and establishing new GTX-D, E, and F lines, all in connection with national policy tasks.
Previously, in June, the city held an expanded executive meeting to proactively discuss response measures to the new government’s policy direction. Then, on August 4, Mayor Bok Giwang, a member of the National Assembly’s Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee, was briefed on the need to address local issues such as: securing a stop for the Seohae Line KTX-Eum train at Sosa Station; preserving the original plan for Ok-gil and Beombak stations on the Second Gyeongin Line and the new Guro Line; expediting the construction of the Western Metropolitan Express Railway (linked to GTX-D); undergrounding the Gyeongin Line; easing and expediting height restrictions around Gimpo Airport; urban renewal for both new towns and old downtown areas; and fully undergrounding the Incheon-Seoul underground expressway construction project. The city also proposed its core future innovation tasks.
Bucheon Mayor Cho Yongik stated, "We will systematically establish strategies to implement the national policy tasks and strengthen cooperation with the central government and related agencies."
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