Suncheon City Wins Grand Prize for Excellent Urban Forest Case in Jeonnam Province Competition

[Suncheon=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Suncheon City, Jeollanam-do (Mayor Heo Sik) announced on the 2nd that it was selected as the best city/county in the '2021 Urban Forest Best Practice Contest' hosted by Jeollanam-do and received an institutional commendation.

This Urban Forest Best Practice Contest was conducted to discover excellent cases in urban forests and street trees created over the past 10 years, and the Dongcheon Riverside Greenway Urban Forest located along the Dongcheon Riverside in Pungdeok-dong won the grand prize.

The Dongcheon Riverside Greenway Urban Forest was highly evaluated for successfully achieving urban greening by demolishing unauthorized buildings densely packed along the riverside in the area damaged by a large-scale flood in 1962, and creating a vast green axis linking Jangdae Park and Bonghwa Mountain from Suncheon Bay National Garden.

It was also recognized for contributing to improving citizens' quality of life by providing a healing space for citizens exhausted physically and mentally due to COVID-19, maintaining ecological health such as reducing fine dust, and offering various forest welfare services.

The awarded urban forest best practice has been submitted as a candidate site for this year's Green City Best Practice Contest hosted by the Korea Forest Service, and an excellent city/county will be selected through an on-site evaluation scheduled for this month.

A city official said, "Through planting ten million trees and creating citizens' forests, we will work together with citizens to make Suncheon a city of forests and gardens."

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