General Secretary and President To Lam chaired the Politburo meeting on Ho Chi Minh City Planning.
On August 23, at the Party Central Committee Headquarters, General Secretary and President To Lam chaired a Politburo meeting to give opinions on the Ho Chi Minh City Planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050.
After listening to the representative of the City Party Committee's leadership report on the request for direction on the planning of Ho Chi Minh City for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050, and the opinions of agencies contributing to the planning project, the Politburo focused on discussing and basically agreed on the major and important policies and viewpoints guiding the planning of Ho Chi Minh City.
In his concluding remarks, General Secretary and President To Lam noted that the planning must concretize the Party's policies and guidelines, the resolutions of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat issued in recent times, especially Resolution No. 31 of the Politburo on the direction and tasks of developing Ho Chi Minh City to 2030, with a vision to 2045. At the same time, it must comply with the provisions of law, especially the Law on Planning; be consistent with the national master plan, regional planning, and sectoral planning, and not conflict with each other. If there are conflicts or contradictions, they must be adjusted to ensure consistency.
The planning must clearly demonstrate the particularly important role and position of Ho Chi Minh City, as the economic, cultural, educational - training, scientific - technological center of the whole country; aiming to become the economic, financial, service, cultural, educational - training, scientific - technological and innovation center of Southeast Asia and Asia, with global competitiveness.
General Secretary and President To Lam emphasized the need to effectively exploit ground space, water surface, underground space, and airspace; organize urban, service, industrial, and rural spaces appropriately; and orient modern transportation methods commensurate with the appearance of the global city in the future.
The General Secretary and President noted the need to balance economic and cultural development, taking people as the central subject of development.
The Politburo requested the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee to focus on leadership to urgently complete the planning. After the planning is approved, it is necessary to be determined, drastic, have mechanisms and policies to open up and activate all resources to effectively implement it, building Ho Chi Minh City to be worthy of the wishes of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo and the people of the whole country.
