NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue addresses the working session with the Can Tho Party Committee’s Standing Board on October 10. (Photo: VNA) Can Tho is one of the five provincial-level cities in Vietnamand also an economic, cultural, social and defence - security centre of theMekong Delta and the country as a whole. It is located at the intersection of twoimportant urban economic corridors in the Mekong Delta, namely the corridoralong the Hau River and the Ho Chi Minh City - Can Tho one.
The municipal Party Committee’s Standing Board reported that thegross regional domestic product (GRDP) has grown by 5.91% annually during 2021 -2023. The size of the local economy expanded to 107.78 trillion VND (4.4billion USD) in 2022 from 91.59 trillion VND in 2021, and is expected to top118.87 trillion VND in 2023 – increasing 10.2-fold from 2004, when it became acentrally run city. Meanwhile, per capita GRDP is estimated at 94.52 millionVND this year, 9.2-fold higher than in 2004.
Labour productivity has increased over years and is hoped tostand at 194.6 million VND per unit of labour this year, compared to 162.7million VND in 2021. Cultural, educational, and social aspects have improvedsubstantially; defence, security and social order and safety been guaranteed; theParty and political system building promoted; and activities of the NA deputies’delegation of Can Tho as well as all-level People’s Councils and People’sCommittees increasingly improved.
Speaking at the meeting as part of his visit to some MekongDelta localities, Chairman Hue lauded the achievements Can Tho has gained amid intertwinedadvantages and difficulties.
He pointed out the city’s slow coordination with ministries andcentral agencies in implementing the key projects identified in the Politburo’sResolution 59-NQ/TW, dated August 5, 2020, on the development of Can Tho by2030 with a vision to 2045. Besides, the outcomes of the pilot implementationof some specific mechanisms and policies for local development under the NA’sResolution 45/2022/QH15, dated January 11, 2022, remain modest, and have yet tocreate a true impulse for breakthrough development.
Requestingmore fruitful implementation of the resolutions, he suggested Can Tho promoteits production capacity to help fuel development across the Mekong Delta, and developagricultural processing and consumer goods industries as the city is located ona weak ground and low-lying land.
The top legislator repeated the goal of developing Can Tho intoan ecological, civilised, and modern city deeply imbued with the Mekong Delta’swater-linked cultural identity; the nucleus of the region; and one of the big multi-sectoralcentres of Vietnam where people enjoy a prosperous, civilised and happy life.
Given this, Can Tho needs to fulfil its heavy responsibilitytowards itself, the region, and the entire country, he said, asking ministries,sectors, the Coordinating Council for the Mekong Delta, and local authoritiesto tackle bottlenecks to help the city bolster socio-economic development.
On this occasion, the NA Chairman witnessed theVietnam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex)’s presentation of 5 billion VND(nearly 204,900 USD) in financial support for the building of 100 houses forpoor households in Can Tho./.
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