Village and local creation 19 "Lijian Mayor Yamaguchi stretches the tree: it is the most difficult to change the residents' consciousness, and the regional revitalization team brings a new vision.

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In the face of the crisis of aging and fewer children, Japan actively promotes local creation, and Ibaraki Prefecture is one of them. The municipal government has actively set up agricultural communes, revitalized the local chestnut industry, integrated local medical resources, and set up community medical centers, which can receive good care from young children to the elderly.

At a time when the National Development Commission designated this year as the first year of local creation, when the Rural Development Foundation and the Academy of Agricultural Science and Technology invited Takashi Yamaguchi, mayor of Lijian City, to come to Taiwan on the 18th to share the experience of local creation. He believes that the most successful, popular and replicable method in Japan's central local creation policy is the "Regional Revitalization Cooperation team." According to the survey, about 60% of the team members will remain in the area after the end of the plan, which will not only increase the local population, but also promote local revitalization.

Photo Source / Yamaguchi Takeshi briefing

The most difficult thing about local creation is to change the consciousness of residents.

Japan began to implement the local creation policy in 2015, and the central government continues to demand local results. Yamaguchi pointed out that many plans take time to see results, and of course there are many failures. When local townships are implementing local creation programs, Yamaguchi believes that the big problem lies in the cumbersome procedures with the central government. For example, the central government thinks that the amendment of the law is enough, but for the local government, there are still many laws that cannot cope with the problems faced by the local authorities. "I am very dissatisfied with the villages and towns."

"the hardest thing is to change the consciousness of local residents." Yamaguchi said that Japanese people generally have a sense of population crisis, but do not know how to solve it, and not everyone is willing to invest. In the past, when Lijian City held a presentation meeting, there was a dilemma that only three or four people came. "many policies cannot be formed without a change in the minds of the residents." Even if the local creation of Kasumi City seems to be so successful, it is still very difficult to change the residents' awareness and can only be cultivated slowly. He believes that no matter where there are people with ideas and wishes to participate, the most important thing is to pay close attention to these people and give them assistance, and there will be results.

Yamaguchi reiterated that it is not enough to rely solely on the municipal government to promote local creation. It is necessary to integrate residents, industry, education, and financial circles to review the policy and local conditions of local creation. He believes that not all of the city's solutions to population decline will be successful, and some require very long-term planning, constant review and re-planning. "this is not an undertaking that can be accomplished in one day."

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