Ho Chi Minh City needs to mobilize more than 420,000 billion VND

TPO - The Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee assigned the Department of Planning and Investment to have solutions to mobilize social investment capital to invest in infrastructure development, promote the city's economic development, and strive to attract 394,000 billion VND in 2024 and 422,000 billion VND in 2025.

Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Van Mai has just signed and issued a Directive on implementing tasks and solutions to promote Ho Chi Minh City's economic growth until 2025.

Accordingly, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City requested members of the People's Committee, heads of departments, branches, Thu Duc City People's Committee and districts to thoroughly grasp and implement a number of goals, tasks and solutions.

The target is to achieve economic growth in the area (GRDP) of at least 7.5% this year and 8-8.5% in 2025; the proportion of digital economy strives to reach 22% in 2020 and 25% in 2025; the provincial competitiveness index (PCI) and the administrative reform index (Par-Index) strive to be in the top 10 localities in the country by the end of 2025.

Achieve a total housing area of ​​40 million ^m2 or more and build at least 26,200 social housing units (according to the Government's target); industrial production index (IIP) in 2024 increases by 6.5%; export turnover increases by at least 10% compared to 2023...

Ho Chi Minh City sets GRDP growth target of at least 7.5% in 2024. Illustration photo: Ngo Tung.

Regarding key task groups and solutions, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee assigned the Department of Planning and Investment to take the lead in promoting the effectiveness of the Steering Committee's operating mechanism and strictly implementing the information reporting regime to promptly handle and remove difficulties and obstacles in public investment projects and works in the city.

There are solutions to mobilize social investment capital to invest in infrastructure development, promote the city's economic development, striving to attract 394,000 billion VND in 2024, reaching 422,000 billion VND in 2025.

The Management Board of Industrial and Export Processing Zones of Ho Chi Minh City and the Management Board of High-Tech Park of Ho Chi Minh City will preside over and coordinate to propose solutions to remove obstacles and promote the commencement of projects that have been granted investment policies by the city, focusing on the fields of digital infrastructure, data centers, logistics, digital technology combined with research and development. Focus on solutions to attract a total investment capital of about 50-70,000 billion VND in the period of 2024-2025.

Regarding the task of promoting new growth drivers, the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee assigned the Department of Science and Technology (KH&CN) to effectively implement investment policies for S&T. Specifically, promoting the formation of international standard research centers (CoE) of the city; promoting the allocation and effective use of the Science and Technology Development Fund for enterprises, first of all, state-owned enterprises; researching and building socialization models, public-private partnerships to promote research, application, implementation of S&T results and innovation...

The Department of Information and Communications is assigned to accelerate the implementation of the tasks of the National Strategy for Digital Economic and Social Development to 2025, with a vision to 2030. Along with that, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Center for Trade and Investment Promotion are tasked with promoting international cooperation with the focus on the above 6 contents with a number of partners according to the foreign affairs program for 2024 and 2025 of the city's leaders.

The leaders of Ho Chi Minh City assigned the Department of Planning and Investment to preside over and coordinate with agencies to continue effectively implementing the Regional Cooperation Development Program; advising on the Plan and implementing the Ho Chi Minh City planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050, immediately after being approved by competent authorities.

The City Industrial and Export Processing Zones Management Board has advised and proposed solutions to form an additional 800 hectares of industrial land to attract investment in specialized industrial zones and high-tech industries (Hiep Phuoc Industrial Park Phase 2, Le Minh Xuan Industrial Park Expansion, Le Minh Xuan Industrial Park 2 and Pham Van Hai Industrial Park). At the same time, it has completed and submitted to the City People's Committee the pilot project to convert 5 export processing zones and industrial parks (Tan Thuan, Tan Binh, Cat Lai, Binh Chieu, Hiep Phuoc).

Ngo Tung

Source: https://tienphong.vn/tphcm-can-huy-dong-hon-420000-ty-dong-post1663354.tpo