Rural and local creation 08 / [illustration] the formation and proposal of Taiwan's local creation plan

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Wen / Xie Zhicheng (chairman of the Rural Development Foundation of the consortium)

In the face of such problems as the decline of China's total population, aging and fewer children, over-concentration of metropolises, and the imbalance between urban and rural development, the Executive Yuan's year-end press conference in December 2017 proclaimed the three major policy axes of "living and working in peace and contentment", "endless growth" and "balanced Taiwan". In terms of "balanced Taiwan", it is mainly to actively promote the policy of "local creation".

In 2018, the Executive Yuan invited the heads of the central ministries, local governments, non-governmental industries and scholars and experts concerned about local creation to establish the Executive Yuan Local Creative Association News. on May 21, 2018, the former Premier of the Executive Yuan presided over the first meeting of the Executive Yuan Local Creative Association News. instructed the National Development Commission to put forward the "National Strategic Plan for Local creation" before the end of the year, and declared 2019 to be the first year of local creation in Taiwan. We will comprehensively carry out the work related to local creation.

Administrative structure promoted by local creation

According to the "National Strategic Plan for Local creation" put forward by the National Development Commission, the Executive Yuan has set up the Executive Yuan Local creation Association News; the National Development Commission has set up a platform, which is responsible for overall planning, coordination and integration, relevant planning and implementation support, and serves as an intermediary platform for creative enterprise proposals; township (town, city, district) public offices and real estate learning and research institutions and associations are jointly responsible for discovering local DNA, building consensus, forming prospects, and putting forward creative business plans. The governments of municipalities and counties (cities) directly under the Central Government shall formulate proposals for local creative undertakings across township and urban areas, assist township (town, city, district) public offices and mediate local resources, etc.

In addition to the "local creation plan", another key word mentioned in the national strategic plan is "local creation plan". Recently, the National Development Commission has begun to hold seminars on going to the countryside. Townships (towns, cities, districts) that are given priority to promote areas are encouraged to submit "local creation plans". After the seminar, many people are asking what is the relationship between "local creation plans" and "local creation plans". Who can mention it? How do you mention it? To whom? Where do the resources come from?

Fortunately, at an exchange meeting at the end of January, I had a few question-and-answer interactions with Guo Yuyu, director of the National Development Commission's regional outlying islands development office, and then went to read in detail the local creation national strategic plan approved by the Executive Yuan. I finally realized that this is it. Here, by the way of illustration and illustration, I would like to introduce to you the formation and proposal process of the local creation plan, hoping to help you understand the topic of local creation.

The political Yuan has not made a separate budget, and the relevant budgets of various ministries will be allocated 10%, and the National Development Commission will be integrated as a whole.

Where do the resources to promote local creation come from? It is an issue of great concern to everyone. Since the Executive Yuan announced at the beginning of promoting local creation that "no special budget or fund will be set up" (Japan has a separate creation budget of more than 100 billion yen); and in the subsequent launch of the Taiwan version of the five arrows, "Integration Department will create resources" as one of the arrows, according to the instructions of the National Development Commission, the National Development Commission will be responsible for co-ordinating and coordinating local creation-related resources to jointly help promote local entrepreneurship.

So far, the National Development Commission has taken stock and selected a total of 37 plans from 11 departments to be integrated to jointly help promote local entrepreneurship. It is said that 10% of the funds for individual plans will be used as resources for local entrepreneurship programs. In other words, in the future, after the local government collates and reports the local creation business plan to be approved by the Executive Yuan, the National Development Commission will coordinate the allocation of funds from the central ministry which is similar to the nature of the plan according to the nature of the local creation business plan.

It is undeniable that the 37 relevant projects included in the integration have individual examination, funding and assessment methods, and they may not be able to link up with the local business creation plans in which a hundred schools of thought contend immediately. Therefore, it is imperative to revise the operational points (or methods) of the relevant plans through rolling coordination. I believe this will be a heavy administrative burden.

Five steps in the formation and proposal process of local creation plan

According to the proposal process of the local creation plan, it can be broken down into five steps (such as figure 1 below):

Fig. 5 formation and proposal process of local creation plan across townships (towns, cities, districts)

The third category: the Central Ministry will be the main body of the proposal, and the National Development Commission will directly act as the window for receiving the proposal.

Conclusion, summing up the above description:

I. the township (town, city, district) public offices or the governments of municipalities and counties (cities) play an important role.

In the process of forming and proposing local creation plans in the future, township (town, city, district) public offices or municipalities and counties (cities) will play a very important role, not only to lead the excavation of local DNA, but also to gather consensus on the ground through consensus meetings one after another, to formulate a vision for local creation, and to coordinate and integrate cooperative units to participate in the proposal of local creation plans.

Second, it is important to take stock of local resources and explore local characteristics.

The survey of local resources is a very basic work, but it is also a very difficult task. If local governments want to talk about sustainable development, it is very difficult to talk about sustainable development if it is not supported on the basis of local resources. Especially in places where there is a shortage of talent, technology, land and funds. Only by relying on local resources, through new interpretations and new experiences, can we have the opportunity to transform local resources into social capital and form a new model of social development.

Therefore, before listing a project as a local resource or feature, we must think carefully about whether it is possible to integrate with the vision of local creation. Or turn it into part of a plan to support local entrepreneurship?

(in order to have a deep grasp of rural development and local creation in the context of Taiwan's reality, "upstream and downstream" and "consortium legal person Rural Development Foundation" cooperate "Rural Development Topics" to explore the current situation in Taiwan and the policy trends in Japan with a series of articles. Please click here to read the full series of articles.)

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