Pocheon City takes a powerful step toward designation as a special opportunity development zone.
“As this is an opportunity, we will mobilize all our administrative power to designate a special opportunity development zone to make Pocheon a city where people want to live.”
[Break News Pocheon = Reporter Kim Wan-young] Pocheon City, Gyeonggi-do (Mayor Baek Young-hyeon) invited Vice Chairman Lee Jeong-hyun of the Local Era Committee, a direct organization of the President launched in July, to the Pocheon Banwol Art Hall on the 24th to discuss 'Vision and Strategy of Local Era' for designation as Special Opportunity Development Zone. A special lecture was held on the topic.
About 200 people attended the special lecture, including Pocheon Mayor Baek Young-hyun, Pocheon City Council Chairman Seo Gwa-seok, Gyeonggi Provincial Council member Yoon Chung-sik, Pocheon City Council Vice-Chairman Yeon Je-chang, Steering Committee Chairman Lim Jong-hoon, lawmaker Cho Jin-sook, related public officials, and citizen representatives.
Special Opportunity Development Zones are a system that provides more than 10 types of incentives that are different from existing special zones, such as tax reductions, special regulations, financial support, and improvement of residential conditions, according to the special zone plan established by the local government.
In particular, when designated as a special opportunity development zone, the local government can directly plan unprecedented tax benefits for all corporate activities, such as inheritance tax, transfer tax, income/corporate tax, acquisition tax, and property tax, as well as special exemptions for various regulations that impede corporate investment in local areas. are given the authority to do so.
In the meantime, Pocheon City has been an obstacle to development due to various regulations related to its border area. Despite this situation, Pocheon Mayor Baek Young-hyun has been working hard to attract high-tech industries by conducting a 'active administration' by directly visiting and listening to and communicating with the difficulties of companies in the area to make the city a business-friendly city.
After the special lecture, Pocheon Mayor Baek Young-hyun expressed his firm determination by personally delivering a proposal for 'Designation of Pocheon City's public-private-gun drone and UAM high-tech defense industry opportunity development zone' to Vice Chairman Lee Jeong-hyeon, and presented a picket performance with citizens expressing their wish for designation as an opportunity development special zone. .
Pocheon Mayor Baek Young-hyun said, “Designation as a special opportunity development zone is a golden opportunity for the development of our city. “As this is an opportunity to lay the foundation for greater growth for Pocheon City, whose development has been restricted by various regulations, we will mobilize all of our administrative power to designate a special opportunity development zone to create Pocheon, a city where people want to live,” he said.
Meanwhile, after the special lecture, Pocheon Mayor Baek Young-hyun visited the project site, the former 6th Corps Headquarters, along with Vice Chairman Lee Jeong-hyeon and revealed the blueprint for the future of Pocheon.
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