Rural and local creation 11 / Don't be afraid at the sight of the local government! Be happy to improve the ability of local governance and be a partner and accompany.

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(Xie Zhicheng, Chairman of the Rural Development Foundation)

According to the National Strategic Plan for Local Innovation approved by the Executive Yuan in December 2018, after analyzing factors such as population change rate, population size, residents 'income, etc., and considering the priority of resource utilization and the economic vulnerability of local residents, the National Development Council selected 134 townships and districts from the former 368 townships and cities nationwide as priority areas for local innovation.

These priority promotion areas are mainly concentrated in the central and southern parts of the country, the eastern part of the country and other non-six capitals. There are 62 agricultural and fishing villages, 24 intermediate towns and 48 original townships. The land area of priority promotion areas accounts for 66.5% of the country and the population accounts for 11.6% of the country.

As part of the USR project of Jinan University, in order to solve the ecological impact of night lighting in white bamboo shoots in Puli, schools and farmers experimented with changing the customary high-pressure sodium lamp to LED lamp (Photo/Liu Yixin)

Encouraging universities to assist township (town, city, district) offices in proposing proposals is indeed a good thing from the perspective of talent support. Because the National Strategic Plan for Local Innovation approved by the Executive Yuan emphasizes the process of proposal and consensus building, it also mentions that local governments, industry-university-research institutions, enterprises, communities, and organizations can independently or jointly propose local innovation projects. Therefore, judging from the energy possessed by the university, the place where it can play is to jump out of the identity of the sponsor, stand in a higher position, and accompany everyone through the process of proposal hand in hand.

Companion assistance, but don't become a "knife and pen service"

However, the author also needs to remind that in the process of cohesion, the participating local governments, industry-university-research institutions, enterprises, communities and associations will conduct various discussions on local creation together, and must not be reduced to "ghostwriting service" type assistance.

If we can support local governance ability through talent support and university investment, learn how to integrate all walks of life and accumulate balanced urban and rural development energy, then this wave of local creation policy is a kind of merit!

The Foundation has launched an accompanying action, welcome to contact us

Several friends who are concerned about local innovation policies, including the Agricultural Policy Research Center of the Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, the Taiwan Urban and Rural Development Society, the Rural Development Foundation of the Foundation, the Department of Bio-industry Communication and Development of Taiwan University, the Department of Anthropology of Taiwan University, and the Department of Landscape Design of Fu Jen University, have been paying close attention to the promotion of local innovation policies in Taiwan since they visited Japan in September 2018.

The workshop arranged seven lectures, with Guo Feiyu, vice chairman of the National Development Council, introducing the national strategic plan for local innovation and the promotion of operation methods, Zhang Zhengheng and Wang Zhongrong introducing the case of local innovation in Japan, and Professor Chen Yuhua introducing "How to analyze the population structure of villages and towns". After introducing the population structure analysis, the population structure analysis of the township is carried out in groups, and the problem points are put forward and the reasons are analyzed. The Taiwan Urban and Rural Development Association, which sponsored the event, specially posted the audio and video of the day's course online for reference. It reads as follows:

The first lecture was "Local Creation of National Strategic Plan and Promotion of Operation Mode", delivered by Guo Feiyu, Vice Chairman of National Development Council.

Lecture 2:"Observations on Japan's Local Innovation Policy" by Professor Zhang Zhengheng.

Lecture 3:"Case of Kasama City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Kanto" by Professor Wang Zhongrong.

The fourth lecture "Shikoku Tokushima Prefecture Kamiyama Town Case", Director Huang Renzhi lecture.

Lecture 5:"The Case of Higashikawa Town, Hokkaido" by Professor Xie Zihan.

The sixth lecture,"Regional Revitalization Cooperation Team," was delivered by Chen Jieting, associate researcher.

The seventh lecture "how to do township population structure analysis" professor chen yuhua lecture.

(Special note: The Rural Development Foundation will never intervene or participate in local innovation proposals. It will assist all localities in promoting local innovation on the principle of purely voluntary companionship. The 134 townships (towns, cities and districts) listed as priority are welcome to contact us if necessary.)

(In order to deeply grasp the rural development and local creation in the context of Taiwan's reality,"Upstream and Downstream" cooperated with the "Foundation for Rural Development Foundation" on "Rural Development Special Topic" to explore the current situation in Taiwan and Japan's policy trends in a series of articles. Please click here to read the full series of articles)

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