Goheung-gun Secures 172.2 Billion Won in Government Budget for Next Year... 5.3 Billion Won Increase Approved by National Assembly

102 Billion KRW (6.3%) Increase Compared to Last Year, Hoheung's Future Growth Engine Foundation Gains Momentum

[Goheung=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Chunsu] Goheung-gun, Jeollanam-do, has secured more government budget for 2021 than this year to be used for building a foundation for future growth engines, which is expected to accelerate the promotion of major pending projects and key priority projects such as the pledges of the 7th local government administration.

According to Goheung-gun on the 7th, the county secured 172.2 billion won in national funds for next year’s government budget, an increase of 10.2 billion won (6.3%) from 162 billion won last year.

Among the total 153 major projects reflected in the government budget, 46 are new projects worth 25.1 billion won, and 107 are ongoing projects worth 147.1 billion won, with 71.2% of the total national fund project requests for 2021 finally reflected.

In addition, Goheung-gun expects the scale of national fund budgets to increase further through various public contest projects in the future.

A county official explained that the main reason for the increase in next year’s government budget secured was that County Governor Song made an all-out effort to secure national funds strategically by fully mobilizing the logic of project feasibility and human networks in line with the budget formulation schedule, actively responding to the situation.

In particular, Governor Song is analyzed to have achieved the addition of 5.3 billion won for seven projects that were not reflected in the government budget by actively explaining and proposing the feasibility of local pending projects that require an increase in next year’s government budget through meetings with ruling and opposition lawmakers during the National Assembly’s government budget review period around last November.

The major projects with additional budget increases reflected by the National Assembly are ▲ Improvement of dangerous roads in Podu Sangpo district (4.2 billion won) ▲ Maintenance of collapse-risk areas on steep slopes in Chukjeong 1 district (4 billion won) △ Maintenance of village sewage system in Pungyang Maegok district (12.2 billion won) ▲ Creation of a community forest near Nokdong New Port (500 million won) ▲ Creation of Geumui City Monument Park in Goheung (2.8 billion won), etc.

The major national projects implemented and reflected in next year’s government budget include ▲ Naro Space Center Phase 2 project ▲ Expansion of Naro Space Center Space Science Museum ▲ Establishment of National Comprehensive Flight Performance Test Center ▲ Development and demonstration of 433MHz-based drone application communication technology, among 14 projects totaling 42.9 billion won.

The major projects implemented by Goheung-gun include ▲ Creation of Jeonnam Smart Farm Innovation Valley ▲ Development of core technologies for eVTOL autonomous flight and flight safety operability test and evaluation technology ▲ Repair and maintenance of Haechangman National Management Embankment ▲ Maintenance of collapse-risk areas on steep slopes in Chukjeong 1 district, among 139 projects totaling 129.3 billion won.

Governor Song Guigeun said, “Since the national funds secured will breathe new life into the local economy, which has been stagnant due to COVID-19, we will closely monitor the project implementation process and do our utmost with a sense of urgency to promote regional development and improve the quality of life of residents.”

He added, “Despite the difficult reality of budget securing activities due to COVID-19, I express my gratitude to all public officials who responded quickly as one team to secure national funds, and from now on, I ask them to do their best to secure the 2022 government budget by taking the lead in discovering new projects.”

Meanwhile, the total amount of national and provincial subsidies in Goheung-gun’s 2021 main budget proposal is 309.3 billion won, an increase of 65.5 billion won compared to last year (243.8 billion won), accounting for 44.2% of the general accounting budget scale.

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