Comrade Nguyen Van Duoc: Ho Chi Minh City strives to achieve a growth rate of 8.5% in 2025

On the morning of August 7, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the regular online July Government meeting with provinces and cities. At the meeting, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc reported to the Government on many contents.

Regular Government meeting in July online at Ho Chi Minh City bridge. Photo: VIET CHUNG

On behalf of the Ho Chi Minh City government, comrade Nguyen Van Duoc thanked the Government and the Prime Minister for promptly and quickly implementing Resolution 22 of the National Assembly on the establishment of the International Financial Center in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang ; and agreed on the policy for Ho Chi Minh City to coordinate with ministries and branches to adjust and supplement Resolution 98 of the National Assembly (on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Ho Chi Minh City) to help Ho Chi Minh City develop more strongly in the coming time.

According to him, in the first 7 months of the year, despite the difficult conditions of the world economic context as well as the domestic Vietnamese economy, under the strong leadership of the Central Government as well as the close leadership of the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has managed the socio-economic situation and achieved many positive results.

Many indicators have met and exceeded the plan, such as the growth rate (excluding oil and gas) of 7.49%; budget revenue has reached 474,000 billion VND, reaching 70.5%. Regarding the disbursement of public investment capital, Ho Chi Minh City has deployed a total capital of about 151,000 billion VND, reaching 27% of the Government's assigned capital; disbursed 56,000 billion VND, reaching 37% of the plan assigned by Ho Chi Minh City and reaching 47% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister.

Regarding the two-level local government, Ho Chi Minh City has implemented it correctly and promptly as directed by the Central Government. 168 communes, wards, and special economic zones in Ho Chi Minh City have been operating smoothly, serving the continuous needs of people and businesses. Regarding the implementation of administrative procedures without administrative boundaries, so far, it has been implemented with households in 168 communes, wards, and special economic zones; and for records of organizations and businesses, it is currently being implemented at 38 locations, and will be 100% completed in September.

Comrade Nguyen Van Duoc said that initially, there were still some problems in implementing the two-level local government. In the first month of operation, the total number of records nationwide was 3.487 million, of which Ho Chi Minh City had 405,000 records, accounting for about 11.6% of the total number of records nationwide, but the staffing apparatus of communes, wards, and special zones is being implemented according to the Central's direction to unify the number nationwide.

Ho Chi Minh City is overloaded, "although the brothers in the communes, wards, and special zones have tried their best, they are still in a state of running out of time but not finishing the work". Along with that, the number of accesses has increased a lot, but the infrastructure system has not been invested in time, overloading the transmission lines, leading to some files being delayed in processing.

The commune level also lacks professional staff, with uneven qualifications. District-level professional staff transferred down do not cover all communes, wards, and special zones, so there is a local shortage of professional staff in land, construction, site clearance, projects, etc., leading to confusion in work and slow resolution. In particular, there is an overload in the position of Vice Chairman in charge of the Public Administration Center at the commune level, who has to sign most of the documents for the people, affecting management work.

The Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee stated that Ho Chi Minh City strives to achieve a growth rate of 8.5% in 2025. The city has set out key tasks such as continuing to direct and rectify existing problems arising after 1 month of operating the 2-level local government; focusing on planning work of Ho Chi Minh City; implementing the Party Congresses at all levels of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; promoting public investment, striving to achieve 100% disbursement of public investment capital by the end of the year. Along with that, deploying the International Financial Center; drastically concretizing the content of amending Resolution 98 of the National Assembly on specific policies and mechanisms for Ho Chi Minh City.

Following the statement of comrade Nguyen Van Duoc on the overload situation of the Vice Chairman in charge of the Public Administration Center at the commune level, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh said that this is a common situation in the whole country. Therefore, the Ministry of Home Affairs needs to consider and propose to solve this problem, and include it in the Resolution of the regular Government meeting in July for unified implementation nationwide.

Source: https://ttbc-hcm.gov.vn/dong-chi-nguyen-van-duoc-tphcm-phan-dau-dat-muc-tang-truong-8-5-trong-nam-2025-1019306.html