HCM City is currently orienting itself towards developing a riverside urban area, making Sai Gon River a landscape-economic-ecological axis, connecting the city centre with Thu Duc city, District 7, Nha Be and Cu Chi districts, and the Southeast region.
Bach Dang Wharf Park on Ton Duc Thang Street in HCM City’s District 1 is one of the most popular destinations for both local residents and tourists. The park has become a favourite rendezvous point for people to meet together or do exercise, and provides entertainment options in an airy and cool atmosphere.
A festival for hot air balloons, yachts and water sports, the first of its kind, kicked off on January 22 to celebrate the first founding anniversary of Thu Duc City in Ho Chi Minh City.
Cu Chi Tunnels, a popular destination for both domestic and foreign tourists thanks to its unique historical and architectural values, may soon join UNESCO’s list of world heritage.
Permanent members of the Government on March 15 looked at the removal of ports along the Sai Gon River and Ba Son Shipyard in Ho Chi Minh City, in line with the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 46/2010/QD-TTg.
Ho Chi Minh City will continue to move its ports to its outskirts to ease congestion on roads outside them and build new ones under a national port master plan for 2020-2030.
Ho Chi Minh City has decided to convert some 20,000 square metres of public land into residential land to resettle nearly 200 households in the Thu Thiem new urban area whose lands it wrongfully took over.
Ho Chi Minh City’s administration has approved a policy of compensation and resettlement for households in a 4.3ha area located outside the original boundary of the Thu Thiem new urban area project in the city’s District 2.
Ho Chi Minh City needs a master plan for 30 years to make sure that investments in water supply dovetail with the overall long-term plan, experts have said.
Meteorologists are debating the cause of the thick fog that has blanketed HCM City and some southern provinces in recent days, which has triggered concerns of residents about worsening air quality.
Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan said at a conference held on September 11 that the city expects to outline a plan to build embankments and improve management of land along rivers and canals by the year-end.
Water buses in Ho Chi Minh City provided services to about 900,000 passengers in the first 11 months of the year, up by 155 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the municipal Department of Transport.
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong and World Bank (WB) Country Director for Vietnam Ousmane Dione on November 22 took a fact-finding trip to the city’s District 2 where the second phase of a WB-funded environmental sanitation project is underway.
Despite great efforts taken by Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities to fight flooding, many flood-control projects have been delayed by administrative procedures.
