Green urban development is a substantial global trend, aiming to ease the impact of socio-economic development on the environment and move towards sustainable development.

The northern province of Hung Yen aims to record an urbanisation rate of 60-65% by 2030 and 80% by 2050, with a focus on developing large, ecological, smart, modern urban areas.

Ho Chi Minh City wishes to push up cooperation with CityNet to strengthen connections and promote the image of the southern metropolis to network members, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Vo Van Hoan has told Kim Jeong-kee, Chief Executive Officer of the Secretariat of CityNet.

The northern province of Bac Giang is working hard to remove obstacles to the re-arrangement of district- and commune-level administrative units for the 2023-2025 period so as to accelerate the work, according to a local official.

With the current urbanisation rate of only 42.6%, there is plenty of room for Vietnam to promote urban development, Minister of Construction Nguyen Thanh Nghi said at a forum on sustainable urban development held in Hanoi on November 8.

The capital city of Hanoi is striving to increase its urbanisation rate to 60-62% by 2025 and around 65-75% by 2030.

The southern metropolis, Ho Chi Minh City, aims to become a multi-centre urban area by following a transit-oriented development (TOD) model, according to its general planning for construction by 2040, with a vision to 2060.

Hanoi will spend 437 trillion VND (18.3 billion USD) on housing development in the 2021-2025 period.

It is necessary to increase tree coverage to reduce the effect of heat-induced problems and increase the absorption of greenhouse gas emissions in urban areas in order to contribute to realising the target of net-zero emissions by 2050, according to Nguyen Tuan Quang from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 30 co-chaired a national urban conference in Hanoi, which aims to disseminate and roll out the Government's Resolution 148/NQ-CP on implementing the Politburo's Resolution 06-NQ/TW on planning, construction, management and sustainable development of urban areas in Vietnam to 2030, with a vision to 2045.

Competition between different localities in Vietnam needs to be avoided, specifically because preventing these connections inhibits broader socio-economic development goals.

The classification and upgrading of urban areas have met requirements regarding land and population, but have yet to deal with quality issues.

As of June, Vietnam had 883 urban areas of all types across the country, representing an urbanisation rate of 41 percent, up 0.6 percent from the same period last year.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has signed a decision approving a project on the development of cashless payment in Vietnam in the 2021-25 period.

Vietnam needs an estimated 220 trillion VND (9.6 billion USD) to build about 294,600 units of social housing for low-income earners in urban areas and industrial parks in the 2021-2025 period, according to the Ministry of Construction.

Authorities of the northern province of Bac Giang have set a target to develop 20 urban areas by 2025, and due attention will be paid to infrastructure development.

Vietnam’s urbanisation ratio reached about 40.4 percent as of the end of June, with a total of 867 urban areas, according to the Ministry of Construction.

The northern province of Bac Giang is striving to develop 32 urban areas by 2030, raising its urbanisation ratio to about 32.4 percent in 2025 and 45-59 percent in 2030, according to Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Duong Van Thai.

Vietnam’s per capita income in 2020 declined two percent to 4.23 million VND (183.19 USD) per month, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has said.

The Prime Minister has approved a scheme for climate resilience development in urban areas in the next 10 years.