Anyang City Earns National Distinction as Sole Municipality with Three Consecutive Years of Top Rating in Local Regulatory Reform Assessment

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Yu Je-sung] Anyang City has solidified its position as a "leading city in regulatory reform" by being the sole municipality nationally to receive the highest rating for three consecutive years in the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's "Local Regulatory Reform Performance Assessment."

The city achieved 1st place among basic municipalities nationwide in the "2025 Local Regulatory Reform Performance Assessment" and secured 300 million won in special grants, as announced on the 15th.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety awards commendations to outstanding local governments that have contributed to local regulatory reform among 243 metropolitan and basic local governments nationwide, based on criteria including discovery of business and resident-focused regulations, efforts to improve central regulations, and results.

The city has pursued creative and professional regulatory improvements by operating the "Mobile Regulation Reporting Center" to directly discover diverse on-site regulations, holding regulatory improvement forums to address difficult central regulations, maintaining continuous communication with businesses, and implementing multi-channel regulatory improvement strategies.

In particular, the city is institutionalizing the "Regulatory Proof of Necessity System," which requires civil servants to directly prove the necessity of regulations and to improve regulations when proof is difficult, and is also pursuing improvements to "shadow regulations" that are not explicit but function as de facto regulations.

Through these efforts, the city has created on-site-focused regulatory reform cases, including supporting demonstration projects for "manhole impact prevention barriers" that enable rapid repairs of level differences around sunken manholes and establishing city, county, and police airspace surveillance and tracking systems.

Meanwhile, in November of last year, the city received an excellence award at the "2025 Ministry of the Interior and Safety Local Regulatory Reform Excellence Case Competition" and has earned renown as the sole local government nationwide to receive excellence or higher awards for seven consecutive years at the same competition.

Mayor Choi Dae-ho stated, "Going forward, we will encourage active participation in regulatory improvement through various incentives for civil servants and enhance administrative efficiency and on-the-ground satisfaction through reasonable regulatory improvements."