Gwangju Dong-gu Wins 'Excellence Award' in Korea Healthy City Award Competition

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Dong-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Im Taek) announced on the 21st that it won the Grand Prize in the General Healthy City Project category at the '2020 Korea Healthy City Awards Contest' hosted by the Korea Healthy Cities Partnership (KHCP).

With this award, Dong-gu has earned the honor of winning for three consecutive years, following the Grand Prize in 2018 for 'Creating a Community Atmosphere for Dementia Prevention Management' and the Grand Prize in 2019 for the 'Small-scale Workplace Healthy Environment Creation Project.'

This year, Dong-gu aimed to include 'health in all policies' and received high evaluations in building a healthy city system and resident-led participation through ▲establishing sustainable development goals for Dong-gu as a healthy city through interdepartmental cooperation ▲completely revising the Dong-gu Healthy City Basic Ordinance ▲forming a healthy city strategic council for multidisciplinary cooperation ▲identifying local health risk factors through the operation of the 'Healthy City Activity Group.'

Im Taek, Mayor of Dong-gu, said, "We have been promoting various resident-friendly health policies to realize a sustainable healthy city," and added, "We will continue to create a healthy city that residents can feel through diverse public health policies."

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