Green area is still low
At the program "People ask - Government answers" with the theme "Management and development of parks and public trees" recently organized by the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council, Mr. Dang Phu Thanh - Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Construction said: Currently, the city has about 11,369 hectares of park and green trees. Of which, from 1975 to present, the city has upgraded, repaired, renovated and built new parks and public trees in the city with about 405 parks, with an area of 508 hectares. Of which, the city has large parks such as: Gia Dinh Park, Go Vap; National Cultural History Park, Khanh Hoi and Saigon Bridge...
According to the Program for developing public parks and trees in the city for the period 2020 - 2030, from 2020 to 2025, Ho Chi Minh City will develop an additional 150 hectares of public parks and trees; from 2026 to 2030, the city will develop an additional 450 hectares of public parks and trees. This goal aims to complete the target of achieving an urban green area of no less than 0.65m2/person by 2025, aiming for no less than 1m2/person by 2030 according to the Resolution of the 11th Ho Chi Minh City Party Congress.
However, up to this point, the urban green tree ratio per capita is still low, reaching 0.55m2/person. Up to now, Ho Chi Minh City has only 21.74ha of parks, green trees increased, reaching about 14.5% compared to the target of developing an additional 150ha of parks and green trees by 2025, expected to reach only over 100ha by 2025, reaching 75% of the set plan.
Mr. Nguyen Thanh Nha - Director of the Department of Planning and Architecture of Ho Chi Minh City said: In each distance, each apartment building is announced according to standards and these parks are located throughout the districts... According to the zoning plan, there are currently 600/600 planning projects in the city and have full park and tree facilities and these projects have been approved. However, currently many of these projects have not been implemented in the field, so the increased green tree ratio has not met the requirements. In addition, currently, many green parks in Ho Chi Minh City are being used for the wrong purposes, encroached upon for many purposes such as business, trading, event organization..., causing green areas and people's playgrounds to be significantly narrowed.
Need drastic solutions
To complete the goal of the Program for developing public parks and trees in the city in the period of 2020 - 2030, the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council has proposed that the City People's Committee needs to implement more drastic measures. In particular, the city needs to strengthen socialization, attract all resources from economic sectors and integrate socio-economic development programs to effectively implement the Government's project to plant 1 billion trees and the plan to plant 10 million trees in Ho Chi Minh City in the period of 2021 - 2025.
Along with that, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Construction also needs to speed up the implementation of investment projects to develop parks and public trees in the city. At the same time, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Planning and Architecture urgently studies and develops a set of standards for land construction structure for types of public parks in the area; guides the establishment and approval of plans for the use of the total area and detailed construction planning at a scale of 1/500 for each existing park.
The Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council also requested the People's Committee of Thu Duc City and districts to review land plots that are originally public land planned for green space, but are being used for other purposes, to recover and invest in building public parks in accordance with the plan; urge and request investors of residential development projects in the area to speed up construction progress, complete the construction of parks and green space systems according to approved plans and hand them over to state management agencies according to regulations.
For the Ho Chi Minh City Technical Infrastructure Management Center - the unit assigned to directly manage the park system, it is necessary to establish boundaries and digitize information and data to serve the management of public parks in the assigned management area; study and develop a plan to use the total area of the parks under management as a basis for organizing new construction, repair, upgrade, and exploitation of services in the parks according to regulations.
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