Yeongcheon City Mobilizes All-Out Efforts to Secure National Funding for 2027

Securing New Growth Engines Through National Funding Proposals and Competitive Project Development

On April 24, Yeongcheon City held a strategy meeting on securing national funding (including competitive grants) for 2027 and discovering new policy initiatives. The meeting was presided over by Choi Jeong-ae, Acting Mayor of Yeongcheon City, and attended by bureau and department heads from across the city government.

The meeting focused on discussing new and competitive projects that align government policy directions with the city’s key pending projects. Participants also shared strategies for securing budgets by department and response plans tailored to the government’s budget formulation schedule.

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Attendees reaffirmed their commitment to securing a total of 136.4 billion won in national funding for 90 projects next year.

The 27 major new projects include: the construction of the Yeongcheon Children's Sports Center; the Geumho River Mainstream Western District Nonpoint Pollution Reduction Project; the Environmental Improvement and Infrastructure Maintenance Project around tourist attractions; the dissemination and expansion of Yeongcheon Garlic AI-based Smart Villages; and the establishment of a testbed for subtropical vegetable vertical farms. Key continuing projects, totaling 63, include: the extension of Daegu Metro Line 1 to Yeongcheon (Geumho); development and distribution of smart senior centers; the access road for the future-oriented advanced composite city; support for the construction of dormitories for agricultural workers; and the maintenance of aging water pipelines in Yeongcheon City.

Starting with this meeting, Yeongcheon City plans to expand its visits to central government ministries to actively explain the feasibility of its projects. The city will also closely analyze national fiscal policies and ministry-level trends to proactively respond.

Furthermore, Yeongcheon City will strengthen its capacity for competitive project selection and concentrate its administrative resources on resolving municipal issues and securing future growth engines through systematic responses utilizing various human networks.

Acting Mayor Choi Jeong-ae stated, "Please respond strategically to securing national funding and competitive projects based on effective planning and thorough preparation," and added, "Do your utmost to secure national funding so that projects for regional development and the benefit of citizens can proceed without any setbacks through a close cooperative system with central government ministries and Gyeongsangbuk-do Province."

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