(HBO) - Hoa Binh – Hoa Binh provincial People’s Committee has approved the province’s urban development programme by 2025 with a vision towards 2030.
Over recent years, the province has
mobilised investment resources for urban development in Hoa Binh city.
According to the Resolution of the 17th provincial Party
Congress in the period of 2020 – 2025, the province aims to reach a
urbanisation rate of 38% by 2025 and 43.18% by 2030.
Implementing the resolution, the province targets to have
an appropriate, harmonious, and modern technical and social infrastructure in
urban areas, a good urban environment, and living quality, proper adaptation to
climate change, and advanced urban architecture.
To promote the role of the geo-strategic position of the
province in the overall development of the northern midlands mountains region
and the Hanoi capital region, Hoa Binh aims to become an urban region with
great economic cultural contributions to the country.
The province will focus on investing in the construction
of technical and social infrastructure and controlling the quality of the urban
environment. It targets a harmonious combination between conservation,
renovation, and new construction of green and ecological cities, enhancing the
climate change resilience in urban areas.
Under its newly-approved urban development programme, the
province targets to reach an urbanisation rate of about 39% - 46.16% by 2025
and about 43.19% - 50.57% by 2030.
From now to 2025, the province expects to have 13 urban
areas. By 2030, another three urban areas are expected.
It is estimated that the province needs 138.07 trillion
VND (5.81 billion USD) for urban construction, including about 83.82 trillion
VND for infrastructure connecting urban areas and about 54.25 trillion VND for
developing urban areas as well as those planned for new urban areas./.
In recent years, Mai Ha commune in Mai Chau district has been making efforts to restructure its crops and livestock to improve production efficiency, enhance the quality of life, and increase income for local residents. Notably, the cultivation of watermelon in line with Vietnamese Goods Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) standards has helped local people escape poverty.
Hoa Binh province scored 43.5493 points in the 2023 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), ranking 20th out of the 63 provinces and cities nationwide, up 23 places compared to the 2022 list. The results show people's satisfaction with the effectiveness of implementing State policies and laws, local governance, and providing public services by authorities at all levels in the province.
With the motto of "polite, dedicated, professional, and lawful,” over the years, Phu Cuong commune in Tan Lac district has gradually improved the quality of processing administrative procedures, winning high satisfaction from local people and businesses.
Stretching over 300 meters, valued at hundreds of million dong and built to the new-style rural standards, a concrete road in De hamlet, Bac Phong commune, Cao Phong district, was completed by the end of 2023 thanks to the collective contributions of armed forces at provincial and district levels coupled with the active participation of military units stationed throughout the district.
Over the years, the People’s Committee of Lac Thuy district has issued many plans and programmes to speed up the administrative reform, aiming to better serve local people and businesses.
Kim Boi district is drafting 23 planning projects which are expected to help boost the local socio-economic development, attract investors, and mobilise resources for development, said Vice chairman of the district People’s Committee Tran Tuan Son.
They include the one on Bo urban area development until 2045, 20 zoning, and 12 on rural residential areas in communes.