In her opening speech, Ms. Nguyen Thi Le, Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council, said that the report on the planning of Ho Chi Minh City for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050, is an important content, serving as a basis for reviewing, adjusting, supplementing and developing new plans, and providing orientation for directing, managing and operating the city's development process.
"Urban planning is a key factor in orienting development, creating favorable conditions for economic - cultural - social development, protecting the environment and improving the quality of life of the people. This planning contributes to creating the premise for Ho Chi Minh City to become the economic, financial, commercial, scientific - technological center of the country and the region, meeting the requirements of international integration," Ms. Le commented.
About 360 billion USD is needed to implement 199 projects.
Reporting at the meeting, Ms. Le Thi Huynh Mai, Director of the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City, said that this plan determines that by 2030, Ho Chi Minh City will be a global, civilized, modern, humane, dynamic, and creative city.
Regarding the development of functional zones, the Director of the Department of Planning and Investment said that the economic zone will form a free trade zone (FTZ) associated with the Can Gio international transit port and Ganh Rai bay, with a scale of about 1,000 - 2,000 hectares; industrial parks, export processing zones, industrial clusters including 37 industrial parks, 3 export processing zones, 7 industrial clusters with a total area of over 10,461 hectares; 4 high-tech zones with a total area of about 1,331 hectares and high-tech agricultural zones with a total area of about 1,251 hectares.
According to the plan, Ho Chi Minh City will become the economic, financial, commercial, scientific and technological center of the country and the region, meeting the requirements of international integration.
In addition, there are other functional areas including 14 tourist areas; 3 research and training areas; 8 sports areas; 11 cultural areas; 1 international financial center; concentrated agricultural production areas; areas that need to be preserved, repaired, restored and exploited reasonably (Can Gio mangrove biosphere reserve); sea encroachment areas in Can Gio and military and security areas; areas with a dynamic role associated with the above functional areas, including the central urban area; Thu Duc City; the southern area (District 7 and Nha Be District); Can Gio District area; Binh Chanh District, Hoc Mon District, Cu Chi District areas.
In the planning of Ho Chi Minh City, it is expected to implement about 199 projects, including 72 key projects with special investment priority with a total capital of about 360 billion USD.
After listening to the report, delegates also raised the issue of the need to specify a number of targets and clearly identify key areas to help Ho Chi Minh City grow such as education, healthcare, land fund development, etc.
Strive to achieve double-digit growth after 2030
At the meeting, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Van Mai acknowledged the delegates' opinions to complete the city's planning dossier to submit to the State Appraisal Council for consideration before finalizing and submitting to the Prime Minister for approval.
Regarding the planning dossier, Mr. Mai said that the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee is directing relevant units to clarify 149 contents according to the planning dossier and 18 contents of the strategic environmental assessment to complete the dossier with a spirit of urgency to meet the time limit, but also make every effort to have the best possible planning version.
According to the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, it is necessary to make this planning have the highest integration according to requirements, synchronization, and consistency with other planning: specialized national planning, national strategic planning, regional planning and city planning...
"The city's planning is a strategic development planning and will then be specified in a step by step in the general planning of Ho Chi Minh City and will be more specific and detailed in the city's future projects, programs and projects. The specific opinions of the delegates related to functional areas, the ratio of agricultural land in the total land area of the city, the issue of land use planning, the development of a plan to implement the planning, management, implementation of the planning or other specific issues will be carefully studied in accordance with the provisions of law and the reality of Ho Chi Minh City", Mr. Mai commented.
Regarding the opinion on land fund for developing religious facilities, Mr. Mai said that the construction of religious facilities to any extent in each plan is carried out according to regulations.
Similarly, other functional areas will continue to be carefully reviewed and researched to create the best development conditions.
Regarding the growth plan and GDP per capita, Chairman of the City People's Committee Phan Van Mai determined that in the planning period of 2021 - 2030, Ho Chi Minh City strives for a growth rate of 8.5 - 9%/year. This is a very challenging growth rate for Ho Chi Minh City, but we must strive to have scenarios, plans, solutions and investments to achieve it from now until 2030; strive to bring Ho Chi Minh City's growth to over double digits (over 10%) in the period after 2030.
"Thus, Ho Chi Minh City will have a very specific plan, in which it identifies a list of key investments, has breakthrough solutions and allocates appropriate resources for implementation. This is accompanied by amendments to institutions, mechanisms and policies so that the city can mobilize resources for investment and development. When removing bottlenecks, we will be able to achieve this growth," said the leader of Ho Chi Minh City.
Next, Ho Chi Minh City will still maintain 4 key industries and 9 main service industries but will choose segments that create large added value suitable for the city's situation to develop. The remaining segments will coordinate in regional linkages to develop in other areas.
Regarding urban development and functional areas, Ho Chi Minh City will carefully review to synchronize this planning with the general planning of Ho Chi Minh City.
"From now until 2030, we will maintain the current administrative and urban units, which include the central urban area, Thu Duc City, 16 districts and 5 counties. In which, we will increase the internal strength of all these urban areas - administrative units but also try to clearly shape the "city within the city" for Thu Duc. As for the 5 districts, we will implement the project to build technical infrastructure to achieve urban standards. Whether the 5 districts of Ho Chi Minh City can be upgraded to districts or cities or not still needs to be recalculated, but at least the districts must achieve the standards of type 3 urban areas," said Mr. Mai.
Besides, Ho Chi Minh City will continue to implement the Prime Minister's suggestion on the model of "city in village, village in city".
"I think with this mindset, each urban area must have ecological factors and more broadly at the level of Ho Chi Minh City, we are a special urban area but also have buffer zones, rural areas, and reserve land. Thus, the mindset of "city in village, village in city" will continue to be studied and concretized in this planning as well as the general planning of Ho Chi Minh City", Mr. Phan Van Mai concluded.
Establish a security and order protection team for neighborhoods and hamlets
Also at this session, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council passed a Resolution regulating criteria for establishing security and order protection teams; criteria for the number of members of security and order protection teams; support, compensation and expenditure levels for forces participating in security and order protection at the grassroots level in Ho Chi Minh City.
Accordingly, each neighborhood and hamlet establishes a security and order protection team. The number of team members is arranged according to the population size of each neighborhood and hamlet. Neighborhoods and hamlets with a population of up to 2,700 people are arranged with 3 members including: 1 team leader, 1 deputy team leader and 1 team member. Neighborhoods and hamlets with over 2,700 - 3,600 people are arranged with 1 more team member; and if the population increases to 900 people, 1 more team member is arranged.
The regular monthly support level for team leaders is 6.5 million VND; deputy team leaders are 6.3 million VND; and team members are 6 million VND.
People participating in the security and order protection force at the grassroots level are supported with 100% of the amount of voluntary social insurance premiums above the prescribed regular monthly support level and 100% of the annual health insurance premiums.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/tphcm-phan-dau-tro-thanh-do-thi-toan-cau-185240622203253758.htm
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