Gwangyang City Wins 'Excellence Award' in This Year's Local Government Productivity Awards

Outstanding in Financial Capacity and Safety·Security Fields

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Gwangyang City announced that it has achieved the great success of winning the Grand Prize in this year’s 10th Local Government Productivity Index measurement results.

Gwangyang City was selected as the second highest local government in comprehensive productivity nationwide, following Dong-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City.

A highly productive local government refers to a local government that effectively utilizes its institutional capabilities to improve residents’ quality of life in areas such as economy, environment, culture, and welfare, and induces sustainable regional development.

The Productivity Award, hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, has evaluated the comprehensive internal administrative capabilities of local governments since 2011 to strengthen local government competitiveness. This year, the evaluation was divided into measuring the ‘Productivity Index’ based on scores from 26 indicators and selecting ‘Outstanding Productivity Cases’ in four fields.

Gwangyang City received high scores in the financial capacity sector, with a local tax collection rate of 96.43% and a non-tax revenue collection rate of 95.6%. It also received well-rounded positive evaluations in the safety and security sector, with outstanding performance in the regional safety index (fire, crime, daily safety, suicide, infectious diseases) category.

The city strives to strengthen administrative capabilities through strategic responses such as department consulting and discovering outstanding cases by sector every year to improve local administrative productivity and competitiveness.

Bang Ki-tae, Director of the Planning and Budget Office, said, “Winning the Grand Prize in the Local Government Productivity Award, which is open to local governments nationwide, proves our city’s excellent competitiveness,” and added, “We will continue to do our best to make Gwangyang City a better place to live and improve citizens’ quality of life through cooperation with the central government.”

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister’s Commendation will be awarded in December, and Gwangyang City has previously won the Excellence Award in the 1st Productivity Measurement category (2011) and the Encouragement Award in the 9th Outstanding Productivity Cases category (2019).

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