Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has instructed departments, wards and districts in the city to work harder towards making strong changes in administrative reforms.
The conference on HCM City's socio-economic performance in the four first months of 2019 (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Chairmanof Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has instructed departments,wards and districts in the city to work harder towards making strong changes inadministrative reforms.
At a conference held by thePeople’s Committee on May 10 to review socio-economic performance in the fourfirst months of the year, Chairman Phong also urged removing difficulties forimportant development projects such as those in the Thu Thiem urban area, thefair and exhibition centre, the Phan Dinh Phung sport centre, the SJC tower andthe Binh Quoi Thanh Da urban area.
He said no large-scale culturaland sport projects have been implemented in the city over the past several yearswhile most of those started earlier have been suspended. Therefore, drasticmeasures are needed to facilitate the implementation of the aforementionedprojects, Phong said.
The municipal People’s Committeeplans to increase support for local firms in bolstering exports and removeobstacles for enterprises through the dialogue mechanism in May.
At the same time, the city willcontinue to carry out the project on developing the support industry to 2020and put into use the facilities under the first phase of the scheme on buildinga smart city during 2017-2020 with a vision to 2025.
At the conference, Director ofthe Department of Planning and Investment Le Thi Huynh Mai reported that totalgoods retails and service revenues in the city reached almost 377.1 trillionVND (16.16 billion USD) in the January-April period, up 12.5 percent on ayearly basis, with revenues from tourism alone totaling 50.6 billion VND.
The city collected more than134.1 trillion VND for the State budget, equal to 33.6 percent of estimate andup 6.07 percent from the same period last year.
The index of industrialproduction picked up 6.58 percent in the period. Meanwhile, the city licensed 13,094new firms with total registered capital of 211.7 trillion VND, with 32.7percent of them operating in real estate.-VNA
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The conference on HCM City's socio-economic performance in the four first months of 2019 (Photo: VNA) 
