"in order to get subsidies, spend your energy on things that don't make money at all," Kinoshita watched Chuangsheng from the shopping streets of Japan.

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After the Executive Yuan has designated next year as the first year of local creation, it has officially sounded the bugle of local creation, and various localities have looked for links with local creation in past experience, regardless of rural values, population revitalization, industrial revitalization, and cultural revival. China also continues to learn lessons from local creative and successful Japan. On the 29th, the "key Review Network" invited Masazu Murase and Sanfu Kumase, who have been promoting local Chuangsheng in Japan for a long time, and who have actually participated in space transformation and shopping street operation experience, to talk about local creative work from the perspective of revitalizing the local shopping street economy.

Kinoshita began to participate in the revitalization of Japanese local shopping streets since high school, making use of summer and winter vacations to go to shopping streets all over the country, and even to inspect cities in Europe and the United States. "I found that the most fundamental problem with local shopping malls is that they do not use their own real revenue to operate, so if they are not enough, they will ask the government for subsidies, but as long as they get money from the government, they will not stop."

"in order to get subsidies, local governments spend their energy on things that do not make money at all."

"I think giving local subsidies feels like taking drugs." Kinoshita explained that the local government subsidy, the actual implementation found that can not continue, can only take money from the government, resulting in a vicious circle. The Japanese central government allocates an annual budget of 16 trillion yen to local governments, while Taiwan's annual budget is about 6 trillion yen. "Local thinking has always been how to get subsidies." For example, in order to attract 120 people to the area, it is necessary to apply for more than 30 million yen. This is the case of losing money.

"in order to get subsidies, local governments spend their energy on things that do not make money at all." The local population continues to decline, but still spends so much time and budget on things that do not make money, the result is that the place is getting poorer and poorer. "A lot of people think they can't do anything without money, but they don't think about how many resources they have." He stressed that it is necessary to put in as much as there is a budget, rather than over-use it all the time and reinvest it at a profit through the mechanism, so that the cycle can make the local rich.

(first from right) Xiong Jisanfu, director of Area Innovation Alliance (second from right) Lin Chengyi, representative of Lin firm (third from right) Area Innovation Alliance represents director Muxia Qi

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