Hwaseong City Receives Minister's Award for "13th Local Government Productivity Award"

Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Lee Suwon] Hwaseong City was selected as an excellent organization in the productivity index measurement category at the '13th Local Government Productivity Award' ceremony hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and organized by the Korea Productivity Association (KPC) on the 2nd, receiving the Minister's Award.

The 'Local Government Productivity Award' is an evaluation that comprehensively measures the efforts and capabilities of basic local governments to improve residents' quality of life and public services through objective statistical indicators from a productivity perspective.

This productivity award competition attracted applications from 144 local governments nationwide. Excellent local governments were selected based on two categories: the productivity index measurement category, which measures the efficiency and effectiveness of local government operations using 6 fields and 17 indicators, and the excellent case category, which reviews best practices in 4 different fields.

The city received excellent evaluations compared to the average of other local governments in the regional economic capacity and administrative/financial capacity fields within the 'local government competitiveness' area of the productivity index measurement section.

Notably, the city received S-grade, the highest rating, in △employment growth rate △financial independence ratio △financial autonomy ratio △poverty reduction rate, and A-grade in △per capita GRDP growth rate △local government integrity score △regional safety index and 6 other indicators, earning the honor of being selected as an excellent local government.

Hwaseong City Mayor Jung Myung-keun stated, "This award is the result of everyone's united efforts to realize the vision of sustainable growth and coexisting enterprise city," and added, "We will concentrate our administrative capabilities on implementing policies tailored to the characteristics of each region of Hwaseong City and do our best to transform it into the '1 million hope Hwaseong City' where citizens can feel the change in their quality of life."