Gyeonggi Province Submits Final Draft of Comprehensive Plan to Promote Border Area Development to Ministry of Interior and Safety

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park Nohun] Gyeonggi Province has finalized the ‘Final Draft of Comprehensive Plan for Border Area Development’ with 53 projects valued at 3.5496 trillion won and submitted it to the Ministry of Interior and Safety on the 4th.

The submission of the revised border area development comprehensive plan is in preparation for the Ministry of Interior and Safety’s revision of the ‘Comprehensive Plan for Border Area Development’ scheduled for October. Previously, the province held a resident public hearing on July 25th and completed the final draft through processes of gathering opinions from mayors and county governors.

The province excluded 7 projects worth 167.6 billion won that cannot be implemented by 2030 in 7 border municipalities and cities, while newly incorporating 18 projects worth 728.3 billion won desired by local governments and residents, and also included 5 new agenda items worth 86.1 billion won additionally proposed through public hearings in preparing the revised plan.

The Ministry of Interior and Safety’s Comprehensive Plan for Border Area Development was established in 2011 to improve residents’ welfare and create new growth engines through sustainable development of 15 municipalities and cities in underdeveloped border areas in Incheon, Gyeonggi Province, and Gangwon Province.

It is a statutory plan established with 225 projects valued at 13.2 trillion won from 2011 to 2030, of which 37 projects worth 3.4 trillion won are allocated to Gyeonggi Province.

Over the past 12 years, Gyeonggi Province has executed 24 projects worth 1.7 trillion won.

When all of Gyeonggi Province’s revised plan is reflected, it will increase from the original 37 projects worth 3.487 trillion won to 53 projects worth 3.5496 trillion won, an increase of 62.6 billion won.

Hong Seong-deok, official in charge of balanced development at Gyeonggi Province, said, “We will make efforts to ensure maximum reflection in the deliberation of the Ministry of Interior and Safety’s Border Area Policy Review Committee.”