Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently approved adjustments to the master plan on socio-economic development of the northern port city of Hai Phong to 2025, with a vision to 2030.
A corner of Hai Phong city (Source: baohaiphong.com.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) - Prime Minister NguyenXuan Phuc has recently approved adjustments tothe master plan on socio-economic development of the northern port cityof Hai Phong to 2025, with a vision to 2030.
Accordingly, Hai Phong will be developedinto a modern green port city with breakthrough economic growth and a competitiveservice and industrial centre.
It is hoped to become a keycoastal economic area of the country and a centre of education and training,health and science-technology, and also serve as a crucial traffic hub.
By 2020, the city’spopulation is expected to reach 2.1 million people with an urbanisation rate of50-55 percent.
The city’s GRDP is hoped to account for 19.6 percent of the total GDP of keyeconomic zones in the north, and 4.86 percent of the national GDP.
The per capita GRDP is forecast to reach 86.3 million VND (3,748 USD) per year by2020.
The city is expected to beone of the top ten localities in the provincial competitiveness index by 2020.
The city plans to focus on promoting the development of the service,industry-construction and agro-forestry-aquaculture sectors.
Attention will be paid to developing seaport services, logistics, airlines, finance-banking,trade, tourism, education-training and healthcare.
The logistics centre of thenorthern key economic zone will be located in the Nam Dinh Vu industrial park withfour satellite logistics centre namely Lach Huyen, the Vietnam-SingaporeIndustrial Park, Trang Due and Tien Lang.
Hai Phong’s tourism sector is set to be developed to become a spearheadeconomic sector with high professionalism and quality.
In terms of industry, HaiPhong will focus on developing key industries with high productivity,value-addition and science-technology content such as clean industry, maritime industry,electronic industry and support industry, aiming to make products capable ofjoining the global value chain.-VNA
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A corner of Hai Phong city (Source: baohaiphong.com.vn) 
