Changwon City Selected for 4 'General Rural Development Public Projects' with 27.8 Billion KRW in National Funding

Nationwide Highest Investment... Aiming to Improve Residents' Basic Living Standards and More

Changwon Mayor Heo Seong-mu is conducting a briefing at the City Hall Press Center on the 8th regarding the selection for next year's 'General Rural Agricultural and Fishery Development' public contest project by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. (Photo by Changwon City)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Choi Hyun-joo] Changwon City, Gyeongnam Province, announced on the 8th that all four projects submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs' '2021 General Rural and Fishing Village Development Project National Subsidy Contest' were selected.

The general rural and fishing village development projects confirmed as new projects for next year will receive 79% of the project cost as national and provincial subsidies.

The newly selected projects are ▲ Dong-eup Rural Hub Revitalization Project ▲ Changwon City New Vitality Plus Project ▲ Buk-myeon Basic Living Base Development Project ▲ Jinbuk-myeon Geumsan Village Saetteul Village Project, with a nationwide highest amount of 27.8 billion KRW invested.

First, the ‘Dong-eup Rural Hub Revitalization Project’ has the vision of ‘Youth Rural Dong-eup Coexisting through Natural Farming’ and will invest 15 billion KRW over five years starting next year, centered on Deoksan Station, which has been closed since 2012.

Also, the ‘Changwon City New Vitality Plus Project’ will invest 7 billion KRW over four years starting next year throughout Changwon City, aiming to establish specialized urban-rural agricultural platforms in the Changwon, Masan, and Jinhae areas.

In particular, the Changwon area will build a distribution and processing platform including an anti-aging healing food processing center; the Masan area will create a healing food platform based on a local healing food market; and the Jinhae area will establish a healing experience platform by constructing a rural healing experience tourism support center.

The ‘Buk-myeon Basic Living Base Development Project’ has the vision of ‘Hot Spring Village Sharing Happiness and Healing Together’ and will invest 4 billion KRW over four years starting next year in the Sinchon-ri area of Buk-myeon, Uichang-gu.

The ‘Jinbuk-myeon Geumsan Saetteul Village Project’ envisions ‘Geumsan Village Full of Forest Scents Dreaming on the Outskirts’ and will invest 1.8 billion KRW over three years starting this year in the Geumsan-ri area of Jinbuk-myeon, Masanhappo-gu, supporting safety and sanitation infrastructure in vulnerable areas and contributing to housing maintenance.

Mayor Heo Seong-mu of Changwon City said, “All four projects selected this time are aimed at increasing the income and living standards of our rural residents and will serve as a foundation for region-specific specialized development. We will continuously promote planned development of living spaces amid rapidly changing rural environments to steadily improve the living standards and quality of life of rural residents.”

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