Ho Chi Minh City aims to develop according to the model of a multi-center city.

The Department of Construction has just sent a dispatch to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee asking for opinions from the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee to serve the work of preparing a project to adjust the general planning until 2040, with a vision to 2060.

According to the Department of Construction, the approved planning of Ho Chi Minh City for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050, determines that after 2030, Ho Chi Minh City will begin building urban areas according to the multi-center city model.

Ho Chi Minh City is proposed to be divided into 6 urban zones. Illustrative photo

Specifically, Ho Chi Minh City will have urban areas, including the central urban area, Thu Duc urban area, Cu Chi - Hoc Mon urban area, Binh Chanh urban area, District 7 - Nha Be urban area, and Can Gio urban area (marine ecological urban area).

The boundaries of urban areas are determined according to the decision to establish urban areas approved by competent authorities.

By 2050, complete the construction of Ho Chi Minh City according to the multi-center city model.

According to the Department of Construction, to build urban areas according to the multi-center city model after 2030, the spatial zoning plan in the project to adjust the general planning of Ho Chi Minh City to 2040, with a vision to 2060. The planning will be divided into 6 sub-zones as follows:

The central urban area is bordered to the North and West by Ring Road 2, to the South by Doi Canal - Te Canal, to the East by Saigon River, including districts 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, Binh Thanh, Phu Nhuan, Tan Binh, Tan Phu, Go Vap, Binh Tan and part of District 12.

Eastern urban zoning according to the boundary of Thu Duc City. Northern - Northwest - Cu Chi Hoc Mon urban zoning has the northern boundary bordering Tay Ninh, the western boundary bordering Long An province, the southern boundary is the administrative boundary of Hoc Mon district and Binh Chanh district with Ring Road 2 including Cu Chi district, Hoc Mon district and part of District 12.

The Western urban area - Binh Chanh urban area has a northern boundary bordering the administrative border between Hoc Mon district and Binh Chanh district, a southern boundary bordering Long An province, a western boundary bordering Ring Road 2 and Can Giuoc River, a western and southern boundary bordering Long An province with most of Binh Chanh district;

The Southern urban area - District 7 - Nha Be urban area has the northern boundary bordering Doi canal - Te canal, the southern boundary bordering Can Gio district, the eastern boundary bordering Dong Nai river, the western boundary bordering Can Giuoc river including District 7 and Nha Be district.

Can Gio zoning has the entire boundary of Can Gio district, which are areas that can develop urban areas such as Binh Khanh, Can Thanh, urban clusters along the Soai Rap river corridor, coastal urban areas... and forest areas including core zones and buffer zones.

Regarding urban construction land, according to data in the plan submitted to the Ministry of Construction for appraisal (November 2024), the total urban construction area is about 125,895 hectares (an increase compared to the expected 100,000 - 110,000 hectares in the master plan adjustment task approved by the Prime Minister in September 2021).

On that basis, the Department of Construction recommends that the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee consider and approve the study of the project with a construction land scale higher than the expected scale in the approved urban planning task and will have specific explanations in the project approval submission.

Source: https://kinhtedothi.vn/tp-ho-chi-minh-dinh-huong-phat-trien-theo-mo-hinh-tp-da-trung-tam.html