Hwaseong Receives Minister's Award at 13th Local Government Productivity Awards

Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Lee Suwon] Hwaseong City was selected as an outstanding organization in the productivity index measurement category at the '13th Local Government Productivity Awards' ceremony held on the 2nd, hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and organized by the Korea Productivity Center (KPC), and received the Minister's Award.

The 'Local Government Productivity Awards' is an evaluation that comprehensively measures the efforts and capabilities of basic local governments to improve residents' quality of life and public services through objective statistical indicators from a productivity perspective.

A total of 144 local governments nationwide participated in this productivity awards. Outstanding local governments were selected based on six fields and 17 indicators, divided into the productivity index measurement category that measures the efficiency and effectiveness of municipal administration and the excellence cases category that reviews productivity best practices in four fields.

The city received superior evaluations compared to the average of other local governments in the regional economic capacity and administrative and financial capacity fields within the 'local government competitiveness' area of the productivity index measurement category.

In particular, the city earned the highest grade of 'S' in employment growth rate, fiscal independence ratio, fiscal autonomy ratio, and poverty reduction rate, and received 'A' grade in six indicators including per capita GRDP growth rate, local government integrity index, and regional safety index, earning recognition as an outstanding local government.

Mayor Jeong Myeong-geun of Hwaseong City stated, "This award is the result of everyone's unified efforts to realize sustainable growth and the vision of a regionally cooperative business city," and added, "We will do our best to concentrate administrative capacity on policy implementation suited to Hwaseong City's characteristics by region, so that citizens can experience improved quality of life and Hwaseong City can be reborn as a '1 million hopes Hwaseong City.'"