HCM City is striving to develop its urban infrastructure to provide safe water, control flooding and reduce traffic congestion. (Photo: thesaigontimes.vn)
HCM City (VNA) - The People’sCommittee of Ho Chi Minh City - the country’s southern largest economic hub – hasunveiled several ambitious targets for 2019.
The targets included administrative reform,e-governance, improvement in public administration, creation of a healthybusiness environment, encouragement for innovation, start-up, and mitigatingclimate change, flooding, traffic congestion, and pollution.
The city aims to achieve 8.3-8.5 percentgrowth and have 46,200 new enterprises in 2019, Le Thanh Liem, Vice Chairman ofthe municipal People’s Committee, told ameeting on January 4 to deploy socio-economic tasks this year.
Liem said 130,000 jobs would be created andpoverty would be reduced by 0.7 percent. Of the city’s workforce, 83 percentwould have been trained and the jobless rate will be under 3.8 percent, headded.
Around 8 million square metres of housingspace would be added in 2019, and each resident would have an average of 20sq.mof space, he said.
The city will have 19 doctors and 42 beds forevery 10,000 persons and 100 percent of the population will have healthcareinsurance, Liem said.
All households would get clean water andgroundwater use would be only 25 percent of the 2018 level, he said.
Liem told the meeting that hundred percent ofhousehold solid waste and industrial wastewater will be treated as will 98 percentof hospital wastewater. The city will try to enter the top 20 in the Public Administration Performance Index, top 10 in the Public Administration Reform Index and top five in the ProvincialCompetitiveness Index.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the municipal People’sCommittee Nguyen Thanh Phong said the city collected 378.5 trillion VND (16.3billion USD) for the state budget, 0.47 percent higher than the target. Thefigure is estimated to rise to 399.1 trillion VND (17.2 billion USD).-VNA
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HCM City is striving to develop its urban infrastructure to provide safe water, control flooding and reduce traffic congestion. (Photo: thesaigontimes.vn) 
