Yeoncheon County Holds 'Regional Depopulation Response' Strategy Conference… Declares Resident-Focused Policies

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Kim Jin-ho] Yeoncheon County held a Regional Depopulation Response Fund strategy conference on the 23rd at the county office situation room to establish a basic plan for responding to population decline regions and investment plans for the regional depopulation response fund.

The conference was attended by department heads and staff members related to population policies, and they reviewed population decline response strategies and discussed the direction for establishing investment plans for the regional depopulation response fund in 2027 in accordance with the government's restructuring of the regional depopulation response fund's operation and evaluation.

At the conference, in line with the government's state affairs agenda, the direction for establishing a basic plan for responding to population decline regions that includes Yeoncheon County's population decline response strategy over the next five years was discussed, and the policy direction for the regional depopulation response fund to shift from existing facility-focused investment to program projects that residents can perceive, such as care, healthcare, transportation, education, and living services.

Accordingly, the county plans to discover customized projects by life cycle to expand the resident population and improve settlement conditions, and to establish an investment planning system based on resident participation.

In particular, through this strategy conference, Yeoncheon County decided to shift its regional depopulation response fund projects away from facility investment and focus on policies with high resident satisfaction, emphasizing the discovery of projects that can simultaneously achieve the effects of population inflow and settlement conversion.

A county official stated, "In line with the flow of the regional depopulation response fund shifting to people-centered policies, we plan to discover effective projects and establish systematic investment plans," and added, "We will actively respond to population decline by implementing policies that residents can feel."