Hwaseong City Allocates 50 Billion Won to Education in Next Year's Budget

Hwaseong City announced on the 23rd that it has compiled next year's budget at 980.876 billion won, a 3.6% increase from this year.

The city compiled next year's budget at 980.876 billion won, an increase of 34.313 billion won (3.6%) from this year's main budget of 946.562 billion won.

The city finalized next year's general account at 810.641 billion won, a 4.8% increase from this year, and special accounts at 170.235 billion won, a 1.7% decrease from this year.

The city increased budget allocations compared to this year in the categories of public order and safety (133.5%), industry and small and medium enterprises (122.4%), education (65.8%), health (31.9%), social welfare (17%), transportation (9.3%), and agriculture, forestry, marine and fisheries (5.3%), respectively.

Meanwhile, the city decreased budget allocations in land and regional development (45.9%), general public administration (25.5%), contingency reserves (22.55%), and environmental protection (9.8%) and other sectors compared to this year.

The city allocated 194.444 billion won to social welfare, 95.975 billion won to transportation, 89.051 billion won to agriculture, forestry, marine and fisheries, 70.521 billion won to general public administration, 65.505 billion won to environmental protection, 52.141 billion won to culture and tourism, 50.130 billion won to education, 38.726 billion won to land and regional development, and 20.070 billion won to health, in that order.

In the case of special accounts, the city decreased budgets for housing projects (87%), waste disposal facilities (38%), Namyang urban development (29%), and Joam urban development (13%) compared to this year.

Related to this, the city plans to invest 50.130 billion won in the education sector, which Mayor Chae In-seok designated as a core project of the 5th popularly-elected administration, to carry out ongoing projects including establishing educational hubs, after-school programs, expanding citizens' lifelong learning rights, English conversation learning, improving educational environments, and school meals.

In addition, the city plans to support new and special education policies including career learning support, expanding educational contributions in line with the five-day school week system, activating private small libraries, and building an experiential activity network.