A corner of Ho Chi Minh City (Source TTXVN)
An innovative, highly interactive urban area in the East with a spearhead development platform of knowledge economy and development cooperation will become the nucleus of the 4th industrial revolution of Ho Chi Minh City and area.
By developing innovation centers, the city will form advanced human resources, strengthen connections to create new opportunities, balance development and the natural environment.
On October 16, in the speech "Development of Thu Duc City - An innovative, highly interactive urban area in the East in the period of 2020-2035" at the XI Congress of the Party Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, the Period 2020-2025 takes place from October 14-18, Director of the Department of Planning and Architecture of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thanh Nha said with the expectation of innovating in the development strategy, continuing the dynamic tradition. , dare to think, dare to do and promote high-quality human resources, the City People's Committee has developed the project "Forming and developing a creative, highly interactive urban area in the East of the city", proceeding parallel with the study of urban spatial planning.
In recent years, the city has made strides on the path of development in commerce, services, technology and urban infrastructure. In the East, multimodal urban transport infrastructure has many changes with a series of key projects such as Mai Chi Tho Street, tunnel crossing Saigon River, Ring 2, Metro Line 1...
Urban railway overpass on Metro Line 1 Saigon River (Photo An Hieu / TTXVN)
At the same time, Thu Thiem New Urban Area, Science Research Area - High-Tech Park, Rach Chiec Sports and Health Center ... gradually forming new financial centers in Thu Thiem, commercial centers, modern residential and service.
This is one of the premise for the city to come up with the idea of building the eastern part of the city into an innovative, highly interactive - nuclear urban area to lead and promote economic development of the city and the region. in the South, in the context of the 4th industrial revolution, in line with the trend of developing the knowledge economy of the world.
The eastern area includes District 2, District 9 and Thu Duc District, with a total natural area of about 21,000 hectares (equivalent to 10% of the city area) and a population of more than 1 million people (accounting for 12% of the total population. City).
This area has the advantage of geographic location, is the center of the Southeast with a synchronous and convenient investment and development system, helping to connect and cooperate in economic development with neighboring provinces. . The startup ecosystem has been formed and strongly developed. The City National University area has a modern technical infrastructure, concentrating 12 universities, research institutes ...
According to Mr. Nguyen Thanh Nha, the creative and highly interactive urban area in the East of the city is a development strategy with a 20-year vision, divided into 3 phases.
Phase 1 (2020-2022) will promulgate an overall development plan and framework, regulations on planning, land, and investment.
Phase 2 (2022-2030) will build works in innovation centers. Supporting the business to develop groups and networking. Improve traffic conditions and urban environment.
Phase 3 (2030-2040) is to promote the project of international scale, establishing a global cooperation network.
Speaking at the 11th Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee's Congress, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked the city to focus on making and implementing the city plan for the period of 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050, with special attention being paid to establishing the core role of the city for development, closely linked to the urban area of Ho Chi Minh City, the Southeast regions, the Central Highlands, and the Delta. Mekong River, creating a breakthrough in development in all fields and in accordance with the national master plan.
According to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Ho Chi Minh City is a convergence of many favorable conditions and has many potentials and advantages, need to focus resources to build a smart city, a creative city with high interaction. East of the city, regional and international financial center, and satellite towns along the city. At the same time, it is proposed to study and propose piloting new models suitable to reality, creating a strong driving force for the city development at a fast and sustainable pace.
Mr. Nguyen Thanh Nha said that the Department had a project to propose core groups of solutions to be implemented synchronously on urban spatial planning, socio-economic planning, promulgating regulations on management and direction. conduct implementation in many areas related to urban areas, develop smart technical infrastructure design standards and criteria, design environmental friendly works ...
At the same time, review, evaluate, build and develop a centralized urban database system on shared GIS platform to manage land, natural resources - environment, infrastructure, and investment projects in 3 districts. Develop an overall policy on urban finance based on the goals of planning and developing infrastructure in innovation centers, building infrastructure, digital infrastructure and digital transformation for buildings. transportation infrastructure; social infrastructure works.
According to Mr. Nguyen Thanh Nha, the city will promote cooperation with leading domestic and international universities, establish technical training programs.
Along with that, the city implements solutions to build business ecosystems, identifies key areas for stimulus policies, attracting the development of creative economic sectors that the city determines to choose.
The formation of a creative, highly interactive urban area in the East of the city with favorable infrastructure, with many advantages is expected in the implementation of innovative innovations. The planning, investment and cooperation to build an innovative urban area not only stop at economic and financial development, but also provide opportunities for long-term sustainable, highly adaptable, promote comprehensive economic - cultural - social development of the city.
Tien Luc - Xuan Nhu (TTXVIN/VietNam+)
