HCMC's economy has been property restructured and attained significant achievements over the past five years, the General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Nong Duc Manh, said.
Addressing the Ninth Party Congress of HCMC Tuesday, Manh said the city's Party Committee and people had tried to overcome challenges and score significant achievements, with an average annual GDP growth rate amounting to 11 per cent.
The city authority had paid great attention to infrastructure development and urban renovation, resulting in the building of new urban areas and the development of the city into a modern and civilised metropolis.
Manh said city leaders had also focused on social welfare issues, leading to remarkable improvements of residents' living standards.
The city's education and training, healthcare, science and technology and other cultural and social sectors have also made significant progress.
Manh also pointed to weaknesses which had been hindering the city's development.
The re-structuring of the city's economy has progressed slowly while its growth rate and competitiveness was not as high as expected.
Manh said the city's GDP and industrial growth rates neither reached the targeted levels nor matched with the city's great potential.
The overloaded infrastructure facilities, especially transportation facilities, and floods in the city caused trouble for citizens.
There are also weaknesses in the city's urban programming and management.
He said the city's human resources did not match with its development and integration with the global community.
The science and technology sector has not been the impetus for the city's socio-economic development.
The city authority was too slow in resolving some urgent social matters, he added.
Manh said some education and healthcare services needed to be improved.
Five-year orientation
In the next five years, the city authority and the people must be fully aware of the city's position as an economic, cultural, scientific and technological metropolis which plays an important role in the country's industrialisation and modernisation, said Manh.
HCM City must attain rapid and sustainable growth at a higher rate compared with the average rate of the country.
The city must play the role of a motive force for the Southern Focal Economic Zone and take the lead in the national industrialisation and modernisation process.
It must be "a major economic, financial and commercial hub of the country and Southeast Asia".
He said the city authority must improve the planning work, especially that for urban and infrastructure development, to ensure sustainable development for the city,
Manh also asked the city authority to pay more attention to improving the education and training sector, so to foster the human resource development, especially the human resource for the hi-tech industries to meet the city's demand for development.
HCMC report
In his political report, Le Thanh Hai, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee, said despite global financial crisis and difficulties in the country in the past five years, HCM City had tried to curb inflation and had made signficant achievements.
Hai said the city's economy was recovered while the State and collective economic entities had played a leading role in the market economy, adding that the private sector had developed well over the past five years.
The city's economy was re-structured with a focus on promoting high-quality services and reducing the size of labour-extensive industries.
The city also attained achievements in the development of urban agriculture and development and management, in the promotion of external relations and in economic cooperation with other localities across the country, said Hai.
He added that implementation of social welfare policies and hunger alleviation and poverty reduction programmes had helped improve the people's living standards and maintain social security and order.
Present at the opening session of the Ninth Party Congress of HCM City was ex-General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party Le Kha Phieu, ex-State President Tran Duc Luong, ex-Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Van An, ex-Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, the permanent member of the Poliburo's Secretariat Truong Tan Sang, Deputy PM Truong Vinh Trong, and other senior Party and Government officials.
Also attending were 449 delegates who represent 154,000 Party members who reside in the city.
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