Innovative Policy
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Innovative Policy
    New Taipei City is the largest city in Taiwan. Locating in the center of northern Taiwan, the city has all the potential for driving the development of northern Taiwan. With its large geological area and diverse culture, the urban and rural appearance brings the city a microcosm of Taiwan. New Taipei City will take the innovative and forward-looking approaches to bring good environment for residents to live and work in peace and contentment, and to create a joyful city, so that the city not only becomes the developing center of Greater Taipei, but also moves towards a world-class metropolis.

    New Taipei City has three highlighted policies of "simplification of administration for the people’s convenience," "mobile governance," and "smart city." The following are the highlights of the government's innovative policies:

Optimize the Parenting Environment and Build a Smart and Safe City

child-raising environment

119 Disaster Relief and Rescue Command Center
In order to establish the top 1 child-raising environment in Taiwan, more than 123 public childcare centers have been set up to provide day-care services for children, so that parents can work outside more at ease. In addition, to build a smart and safe city, New Taipei City has created many top 1 among Taiwan’s six special municipalities, such as establishing Taiwan's first drone team using innovative technology to assist criminal investigation and prevention, traffic control, environmental protection, and disaster prevention and relief. New Taipei City has also established an intellectualized "119 Disaster Relief and Rescue Command Center," which takes only 19 seconds to dispatch rescue teams and uses the mobile emergency room information system to save rescue time, leading to the city's OHCA recovery rate increasing to 11.54% and saving more than 2,614 people.

Three Strategies to Promote Urban Renewal and to Build a Resilient City

Build a Resilient City

Wugu Summer Greenland
New Taipei City is actively implementing its "Three Strategies for Urban Renewal" to renovate the aging urban areas. This initiative prioritizes the reconstruction or renovation of aging buildings and accelerates urban renewal efforts. Over the past 20 years, the number of approved cases has increased 6.67-fold.
To promote housing justice, New Taipei City has taken the lead in allocating a proportion of social housing into its "Elderly Housing Exchange Program." In addition, through the "Property Subletting for Social Tenants Program," private homes are exchanged to facilitate housing transitions for the elderly, providing new options for residents.
In just three years, the New Taipei City Government successfully transformed Wugu Garbage Mountain into the Wugu Green Oasis, saving over NT$20 billion in public funds. Once a symbol of urban stigma, the area has been revitalized into a clean and organized space for lawful factories.
The city's sewage took over more than 1.2 million households, ranking first in the country and successfully flipped over the Banqiao Nanzi Drain, Ya Mu Gang Drain, Teng Liao Keng Drain and Da Ke Keng Stream. The annual projection mapping show held nearby Zhonggang Drain has also become the latest check-in place, as a successful case by the city government team. Besides, in response to the extreme weather, New Taipei City creates Taiwan’s first pumping station with pre-pumping and early-pumping mechanism developed, increasing the flood detention capacity of about 578,000 cubic meters, which is equivalent to 231 swimming pools and greatly improving the ability to prevent floods.

Promote the Nation-Wide Sports, Create Ecological Sustainability and Common Good


Mountain and Sea Afforestation Plan
New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon is the first "Gold Label" marathon certified by the World Athletics in Taiwan. Awarded the “International Responsible Sport Silver Standard” by the Council for Responsible Sport, completed ISO 14067 carbon footprint assessment, and achieved ISO 20121 certification for sustainable event management, making it the first marathon in Asia to earn dual green sustainability certifications. Keep implementing SDGs for health and well-being to reduce carbon emissions by 10% annually.
In June 2022, the country's first "Mountain to Sea Afforestation Plan" was launched to create a healthy and ecological environment from mountains and forests to the ocean. The forest coverage rate has reached 76%, ranking first among Taiwan’s six special municipalities. At the same time, New Taipei City also plans to plant 40,000 trees and restore 500 corals each year, increasingblue carbon and green carbon from the mountains to the sea, and continuing to protect the land with actions, in order to achieve the goal of net zero by 2050 actively.

Provide Youth Entrepreneurship Assistance and Improve the Working Environment

 Improve the Working Environment
Provide Youth Entrepreneurship Assistance
The city government is the first one in the nation to promote regional revitalization based on agriculture. The government cooperates with local teams to promote local special industrial chains, and assists teams to develop their careers and industries through the Alliance of Agricultural Revitalization Universities, and has promoted 20 of the local teams. In addition, the government also actively assists young people to start businesses, connecting local resources, and the related strategies for youth employment have been effective. In the first half of 2023, the youth unemployment rate has been the lowest in Taiwan’s six special municipalities. Moreover, to promote labor-management dialogue, the government continue to guide companies to hold labor-management conferences, and to provide the country's highest density of multi-legal consulting services, dealing with the most labor-management dispute arbitration cases in the country. Also, New Taipei City actively assists women, the middle-aged, elderly, and the disabled to stay in the workplace, and assists enterprises to shape an employee system for employee-friendly workplace.