[Gyeonggi] Hwaseong-si 'No. 1 in overall competitiveness for 8 consecutive years'

Hwaseong City ranked first in the overall competitiveness nationwide for the eighth consecutive year in the 2024 Korea Local Autonomy Competitiveness Index survey.

In the evaluation results released by the Korea Institute for Public Autonomy, Hwaseong City scored 689.6 points, the highest among 226 cities, counties, and districts nationwide.

This is well above the national average of 481.8 points.

Mayor Chung Myung-geun said, "Hwaseong City's achievement of No. 1 in the country for eight consecutive years, which no local government in the country has been able to do, is an achievement made by 1.03 million citizens and public officials together," adding, "It is especially meaningful to have achieved this achievement ahead of the launch of Hwaseong Special City in January next year."

Mayor Chung emphasized, "We will use the launch of the special city as another opportunity to establish ourselves as a representative city of Korea."

The Korea Local Autonomy Competitiveness Index (KLCI) was created to develop local autonomy management indicators and measure regional competitiveness, and has been surveyed and published by local governments nationwide every year since 1996.