Yangju City Receives Minister of Interior and Safety Award at '2024 Local Regulatory Innovation Excellence Competition'

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Lim Hong-soon] Yangju City received the honor of winning the 'Minister of Interior and Safety Award' at the '2024 Local Regulatory Innovation Excellence Competition' held on the 24th at EXCO in Daegu.

The 'Local Regulatory Innovation Excellence Competition' organized by the Ministry of Interior and Safety is held to share and evaluate the regulatory innovation achievements of local governments. This year, 626 excellent cases were submitted from local governments across the country.

The case presented by the city is titled 'Finding the Answer to Local Decline through Regulatory Innovation: Creating Customized Industrial Complexes for Corporate Demand by Expanding Industrial Complex Occupancy Agreement Authority.' This case involved expanding the industrial complex occupancy agreement authority, which previously belonged only to provincial and metropolitan governors, to include mayors and county commissioners of basic local governments.

To achieve this, the city began proposing improvements to central laws and ordinances in February 2022, and after two years of persistent efforts, it was confirmed that the city successfully amended the Enforcement Decree of the Industrial Location and Development Act by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in December last year.

According to analysis by city officials, the achievements of this day were highly evaluated by experts for their ability to secure new growth engines for local governments and businesses through rapid business attraction and job creation.

In fact, according to policy briefing materials from the Deputy Prime Minister for Economy released in August last year, the regulatory innovation case of Yangju City is expected to generate corporate investments of 1.03 trillion won, increase sales by 3.7 trillion won, and create approximately 5,000 jobs in the short term.

Meanwhile, the city is promoting 'Yangju City Customized Regulatory Innovation Projects' with the 2024 direction for local regulatory innovation reform aimed at △field-focused livelihood and business problem regulatory improvement △region-focused regulatory enhancement △promotion of active administration through strengthened regulatory innovation capabilities.

Mayor Kang Su-hyun stated, "In order to achieve substantial regulatory innovation, we will listen to various voices from the field and actively work to eliminate unreasonable regulations to create a city where it is good to do business."