✨國發會與 #日本三重縣 進行 #地方創生 議題線上意見交流會✨
國發會龔明鑫主委於4月30日與日本三重縣鈴木英敬知事(Mr. Eikei Suzuki)就地方創生議題進行線上意見交流會，分享雙方推動地方創生政策經驗及實例。
龔主委表示，台灣與日本均正面臨因地方人口流失及過度集中都會區等問題，我國政府提出「0-6歲國家一起養」，試圖減輕國人育兒負擔；因應高齡化社會推行「長照2.0」，並學習日方完善的養老照護政策；為鼓勵青年返鄉就業，推動「地方創生」，增列預算多元徵案，深獲青年人響應支持。
龔主委也提到透過今日的會談交流，將為台灣日後推動地方創生帶來更多啟發，並感謝鈴木知事分享三重縣應用數位科技促進地方觀光、農業及交通等案例，如： Workation(度假式辦公)、智慧型農林水產業及飛天車等；鈴木知事則表示對我國地方創生計畫進行多元徵案的作法印象深刻，將納入政策參考。雙方均期待在疫情結束後實地參訪，持續交流地方創生相關心得，進一步強化台日合作關係。
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On April 30, NDC minister Kung has held an online meeting with Mr. Eikei Suzuki(鈴木英敬), the Governor of Mie Prefecture (三重県) of Japan, for exchanging related experiences and best practices for promoting regional revitalization in Taiwan and Japan, respectively.
Minister Kung stated that both Taiwan and Japan are facing such development issues as declining population in rural communities with population overly concentrating in the metropolitan areas. Taiwan’s government has formulated some coping strategies for addressing those pressing concerns, including: national nurturing program for children aged 0-6 to reduce young couples’ economic burden for raising kids; Long-term Care Program 2.0 for taking good care of our elderly citizens. Also, the government has been diligently implementing the Regional Revitalization Program for encouraging our young people to return to their hometowns for local employment. Via budget expansion and diverse call-for-proposal approach, the Program has received positive feedbacks from the young people as a result.
Minister Kung also mentioned that through today’s meeting, Taiwan side has been greatly inspired by Japan’s pragmatic approaches for pushing forward our regional revitalization in the future.
Minister Kung also thanked Governor Suzuki for sharing wonderful experiences and best practices of Mie Prefecture, including applying digital technologies in promoting local tourism, agriculture, as well as transportation, specifically, demonstrating examples of “Workation” for new work pattern and lifestyle, smart agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, and flying vehicles, etc.
Governor Suzuki also expressed that he has been greatly impressed by Taiwan’s approach for diversified calling for proposal and would adopt that as a piece of valuable reference for their policy formulation afterwards.
Both sides have pledged that we are to continue our mutual exchanges and experience sharing in promoting regional revitalization and to pay a visit to each other once again after the COVID-19 pandemic so as to further strengthen the bilateral cooperative relationship between Japan and Taiwan.
