Yangju City Holds 2017 Key Projects Implementation Report Meeting

Yangju City (Mayor Lee Seong-ho) held a 2017 key projects implementation report meeting at the city hall situation room on the 16th.

The report meeting reviewed the implementation status and future promotion strategies for city affairs across the board for 2017, including major priority projects aimed at fulfilling the mayoral pledges and vision of the sixth popular election term—concrete changes and creating an inspiring Yangju that citizens desire.

The city selected 12 core tasks and 35 detailed tasks in 2017, proclaimed the year as the inaugural year for establishing social infrastructure in preparation for a population of 300,000, and is mobilizing all administrative resources to be reborn as a central city in northern Gyeonggi Province.

The main content of the report meeting includes promoting the inaugural year of creating social infrastructure where everyone—regardless of age or gender—can be happy, through regional senior welfare centers, sports centers, children's cultural halls, disability welfare centers, veterans' halls, Okjeong comprehensive social welfare centers, and Yangju Employment and Welfare Plus Centers.

Promotion projects include the Dobongsan to Okjeong metropolitan railway construction project for advancing into a convenient transportation hub, the National Route 39 (Janghung to Gwangjeok) facilities improvement project, and the Guri-Yangju-Pocheon expressway construction project; large-scale Yangju Station area development project, attracting the Second Techno Valley, full-scale promotion of Yangju New City (Okjeong and Hoecheon) development projects, and groundbreaking of Eunnam General Industrial Complex for building a vibrant future-type complex city.

For building a woman-friendly city where families are happy, promotion projects include the comprehensive childcare support center, women's business comprehensive support center establishment, silver police units, and women's safe return home operations.

Additionally, performance reports were received on a total of 98 core promotion projects including citizen-participated civic consciousness practice movement Moving 365, landscape complex creation with red spider lilies, celebration of the 100th anniversary of Jang Ucchin, and the establishment of a children's comprehensive safety experience center, with discussions held on future promotion directions.