Report on 140 Projects, Key Project Updates, and Strategy Sharing
Changwon Special City in Gyeongnam held the ‘2025 National Budget Securing Target Project Discovery Report Meeting’ on the 15th and began full-scale activities to secure the national budget.
Amid expectations of difficulties in securing next year’s national budget due to the government’s maintenance of sound fiscal policy and the promotion of intensive fiscal normalization, Mayor Hong Nam-pyo personally stepped forward to accelerate the ‘Innovative Growth Transition for the Next 50 Years of Changwon Special City.’
At the report meeting, a total of 140 projects (KRW 879.9 billion requested for the 2025 national budget) were reported as targets for securing the national budget, and strategies for securing the budget were discussed. The detailed status of the projects includes ▲13 new projects worth KRW 15.4 billion ▲26 public contest projects worth KRW 60.4 billion ▲101 ongoing projects worth KRW 804.1 billion.
By sector, the breakdown is ▲5 projects in Science, Technology, and Information and Communications worth KRW 3.4 billion ▲34 projects in Construction and Transportation worth KRW 112.4 billion ▲21 projects in Agriculture, Forestry, Marine, and Fisheries worth KRW 475.6 billion ▲14 projects in Culture and Tourism worth KRW 23.6 billion ▲28 projects in Industry and Economy worth KRW 74.2 billion ▲28 projects in Environment and Forestry worth KRW 93.1 billion ▲10 projects in Safety and others worth KRW 97.6 billion.
Major new and public contest projects include ▲Establishment of a test and evaluation infrastructure for the future Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) electric propulsion system ▲Establishment of a product life cycle assessment (LCA) platform project ▲Expansion and support infrastructure for the e-mobility motor remanufacturing industry ▲Construction of a 5G specialized highway network leading digital transformation in Changwon Industrial Complex ▲Barrier-free tourism connectivity enhancement project ▲Glocal University project ▲Maintenance project for steep slope collapse risk areas in Palyong district ▲Marine leisure tourism hub public contest project ▲Urban regeneration projects in the Munhwa and Byeongam districts ▲Expansion of National Road No. 79 (Dongjeong-dong to Bukmyeon Sinchon-ri) ▲Regionally specialized rental smart farms.
The city plans to continue promoting core administrative projects as in the previous year and focus on discovering new projects linked to national policies and securing funding for local pending projects to foster future growth industries.
In particular, as the amount of national budget secured increases, the city’s financial burden also grows. Therefore, this year, the city decided to focus on securing projects that are essential in terms of project effectiveness and resident benefits through ‘selection and concentration’ rather than quantity.
In this regard, the city will respond step-by-step according to the national fiscal operation plan and the central government’s budget formulation schedule, and will strengthen the ‘one-team system’ with central government officials, local members of the National Assembly, and the Planning and Coordination Office and Seoul Headquarters to proceed in an organized and strategic manner.
Mayor Hong Nam-pyo of Changwon Special City said, “This year is a time when the results of the core administrative projects we have been promoting should become visible, and especially, we must actively take care of life-oriented projects that citizens can feel,” adding, “Starting from today’s report meeting, everyone should unite their efforts to ensure that the necessary project budgets for our city are secured during the government’s budget formulation period.”
Meanwhile, Changwon City plans to supplement any shortcomings discovered through this report meeting and intensively visit central government departments from March onward.
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