Solving pollution, fire, and tube houses
National Assembly Deputy Nguyen Anh Tri (Hanoi Delegation) agreed with the city's orientations and solutions in renovating old apartment buildings, especially urgent in the current serious fire and explosion situation, or solving polluted rivers, waste and wastewater problems.
Mr. Tri suggested that the issue of re-planning the city should pay attention to having wide roads to go through, and escape routes in case of fire or explosion. It is necessary to reduce and eventually eliminate tube houses in Hanoi and this issue must be discussed with the people to find a high consensus. "We have gone through several decades of tube houses and the situation is now very difficult to handle and repair. This time, we need to gradually limit them, not have new ones and re-plan to change" - Mr. Tri said.
Regarding elevated roads, Mr. Tri said that they should only be developed outside, and that crowded areas in the city should be kept to a minimum. High-rise roads should not be built in the Old Quarter, even in very beautiful streets, because they will obstruct the view and make the city ugly. Regarding the planning of the health system, it is necessary to see that the planning is not only for the people of the capital, but also for a region, even an entire country, because most of the large, leading hospitals are concentrated in Hanoi. Large hospitals, especially specialized hospitals, should be highly concentrated, and there should even be medical centers, including specialized institutes to coordinate with each other. General hospitals with less than 500 beds must be located in districts. General clinics must be located in all residential areas and as close to the people as possible, creating a system that directly serves the people, so that when they are sick, no matter how small, they can be there in just 15 minutes.
Regarding transportation, it is necessary to pay attention to urban development according to TOD transportation orientation (meaning taking the orientation of public transportation system development as the basis for urban development planning, taking traffic hubs as population concentration points to further form a decentralized transportation system), especially in the periphery, connecting regions across the country with all types of roads, railways, waterways, airways...
According to National Assembly Deputy Tran Van Tien (Vinh Phuc Delegation), the current planning adjustment is made according to the 2009 Law on Urban Planning. Meanwhile, the Government is submitting to the National Assembly for comments on the Law on Urban and Rural Planning to replace the 2009 Law on Urban Planning. Therefore, it is recommended that consultants implementing the adjustment of the Capital Master Plan must closely follow the Capital Master Plan and the draft Law on Urban and Rural Planning to avoid a situation where the newly adjusted master plan must be adjusted according to the Law on Urban and Rural Planning.
Regarding the planning adjustment project to apply the model of "city within the capital", National Assembly member Nguyen Van Than (Thai Binh delegation) hopes for "Hanoi capital within Hanoi city". Accordingly, should the inner city districts be "Hanoi capital". And Hanoi is "Hanoi city including Hanoi capital and other areas". Because that way the state will have resources to focus on the capital. "Hanoi now has 12 million people, by 2030 it will be 17-18 million people. We should do that because other countries have done this" - Mr. Than said and said that the inner city could have 4-6 districts.
“Nowadays, building high-rise buildings in the inner city is not allowed because it is very dangerous. High-rise buildings cannot be in the inner city. Therefore, I hope that the National Assembly, the Party and the State should study the viewpoint that the capital Hanoi is located within the city of Hanoi,” Mr. Than said.
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As a participant in the process of developing the Hanoi Capital Master Plan for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050, and the Project to adjust the overall Hanoi Capital Master Plan to 2045, with a vision to 2065, National Assembly Delegate Hoang Van Cuong (Hanoi Delegation) raised 3 issues that need attention. Accordingly, it is necessary to focus on solving the biggest bottleneck of Hanoi Capital at present, which is traffic congestion. The focus is on investing in the construction of 14 urban railway lines as outlined in the project to form a railway network capable of connecting traffic to serve the people.
Mr. Cuong analyzed: At that time, it will automatically replace personal vehicles. Current problems of traffic jams or environmental pollution will be solved through the development of the railway system, connecting with the suburbs; automatically spreading economic activities concentrated in the inner city, developing in new urban areas, especially this railway system also connects with provinces such as Bac Ninh, Vinh Phuc, Hung Yen, Ha Nam. Thus, those provinces and cities will become almost satellite cities to create development connections, while also dispersing concentration.
Once such a railway system is in place, the current urban areas with old apartment buildings and dilapidated low-rise buildings can automatically be transformed into modern urban models. Developing the underground space system into a commercial and service area. It is like underground neighborhoods and the above ground becomes an open space for green trees and public services - that is the image of a civilized and modern city.
Second, according to Mr. Cuong, it is necessary to invest in building a wastewater collection system separate from the rainwater system and build and arrange local wastewater treatment areas and centralized wastewater treatment areas so that when wastewater from urban activities is discharged into the environmental system, it is clean water, no longer polluted. This is at the same time as the need to immediately deploy the construction of 2 spillways on the Red River and on the Duong River. When these 2 dams are built, the water level of the Red River in the dry season will rise and will push water into rivers such as the Day River, Nhue River, and the Bac Hung Hai river system, automatically "reviving" this river, no longer suffering from drought like today.
Particularly significant is that with this dam system, every year about 5 billion m3 of water from lakes such as Hoa Binh Lake will be saved, not having to discharge water in the dry season; the huge benefit is having water for production of the entire Red River Delta region, no shortage of water for power generation and the river surface of the Hanoi area will become an overflow lake. At that time, we will build 2 heritage roads on both sides of the river as planned. It will become a space for tourism, a cultural space, a space to organize commercial and service activities on the riverside.
Third, according to Mr. Cuong, there needs to be a mechanism to support people in the Old Quarter. If we want to renovate and improve this area, we must support them with housing and implement a mechanism that does not reclaim the houses of these people even if they are supported with housing. If supported like that, the people will use this space to become a space for business services and commerce. The property will still be theirs. They can produce and do business themselves, or let investors invest and renovate it into places to stay, become places for business and commerce. This will develop a space for the night economy for Hanoi, not only around the current Hoan Kiem Lake area, but also the Old Quarter, West Lake, and Red River will become a space for tourism and night economy development. "Those will be the points that create a great driving force for the development of the Capital," said Mr. Cuong.
Meanwhile, according to Minister of Construction Nguyen Thanh Nghi, it is necessary to focus on implementing synchronous and comprehensive solutions to overcome environmental pollution in the air, water environment as well as other environmental pollution problems in the capital by synchronously implementing green development solutions, green transformation, minimizing pollution sources such as converting public transport forms, converting production technology as well as investing in waste and wastewater treatment technology for the capital in each stage.
Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung said that the orientation of developing the city facing the river or expanding urban railway lines, developing underground space, needs to solve water environment issues, including the treatment and cleaning of Nhue River, To Lich River, Tich River and Hanoi's air environment. The planning has many differences compared to some other plans, focusing on cultural issues, heritage, being a place where the cultural quintessence of the whole country converges, being a leading center in research, creation and promoting human potential, promoting science and technology and innovation.
COMMUNICATION NO. 23 OF THE 7TH SESSION, 15TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
On June 20, the National Assembly continued its 21st working day. In the morning, the National Assembly held a plenary session at the Hall to discuss the Capital Planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050; the overall adjustment project of the Hanoi Capital Master Plan to 2045, with a vision to 2065. At the end of the discussion, Minister of Construction Nguyen Thanh Nghi and Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung spoke to explain and clarify a number of issues of concern to the National Assembly deputies. Next, the National Assembly discussed in groups the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Land Law, Housing Law, Real Estate Business Law, and Law on Credit Institutions.
In the afternoon, the National Assembly held a plenary session at the Hall, listening to Minister of Construction Nguyen Thanh Nghi present the Report on the draft Law on Urban and Rural Planning; Chairman of the National Assembly's Economic Committee Vu Hong Thanh presented the Verification Report. Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh presented the Report on the draft Law on Geology and Minerals; Chairman of the National Assembly's Science, Technology and Environment Committee Le Quang Huy presented the Verification Report. After that, the National Assembly discussed in groups the draft Law on Geology and Minerals; the draft Law on Urban and Rural Planning.
According to VPQH
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