HBO - According to the Department of Construction of the northwestern province of Hoa Binh, the urbanisation rate of the province stood at 14.53 percent in 2015. The figure in the three subsequent years from 2016 to 2018 hit 16.95 percent, 18.96 percent and 21 percent, respectively. The growth of urbanisation rate of the province was higher than the country’s average.
However, Hoa Binh province’s urbanisation
rate currently accounts for only 54.69 percent of the national average, which
was 38.4 percent in 2018.
Director of the provincial department Ngo
Ngoc Duc said it is possible for the province to achieve the target of raising
the urbanisation rate to 25 percent in 2020 proposed in the Resolution of the
provincial Party Committee’s Congress.
The construction department has submitted a
plan to seek approval of the provincial People’s Committee on an urban
development programme and another to implement the programme, which set the
target of bringing the urbanisation rate to 25 percent in 2020.
Based on the programme and the province’s
urban development plan, the Hoa Binh People’s Committee assigned tasks for each
sector and locality to improve the rate of urbanisation. The Departments of
Home Affairs and Construction have worked with districts to review urban
development plans for respective urban areas to promptly supplement contents of
urban development, ensuring consistency in the implementation of a project to
re-arrange and re-organise administrative units in the province in 2020.
The plan aims to have 50,000 people live in
urban areas, raising the number of residents in urban areas to 201,668 out of
the 960,480 residents as regulated.
Hoa Binh city mobilizes financial sources to invest in
infrastructure to realise the target of becoming a second-tiered urban area in
2020.
Competent agencies have provided
consultation for the province to implement measures on urban development,
including those to improve planning quality and urban planning management;
those to mobilise finance in urban infrastructure and attract investment in
major urban development projects and programmes related to Hanoi capital city.
Agencies also focus on new urban
development projects which are in line with current infrastructure and public
works, as well as launch mechanisms and policies encouraging investment in
urban infrastructure and public-private partnership projects.
The province has prioritised in specific
tasks to bolster investment and development in three core urban areas of Hoa
Binh city, Luong Son and Mai Chau districts./.
On November the first, the Provincial People's Committee held a meeting for the reports on the progress of preparations to hold the Ceremony to receive the Certificate of the special national relic ranking for Trai Cave, the Stone Roof of Vanh village (Lac Son district) and the Opening Ceremony of the Culture - Tourism Week of Hoa Binh province in 2024. Mr. Nguyen Van Toan, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, the Head of the Organizing Committee of Culture - Tourism Week chaired the meeting.
alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Phi Long on October 30 had a working session with the Party Committee of the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment on the sector's implementation of political tasks in the past 10 months, and key tasks for the last months of 2024 and in the coming time.
In recent years, the People's Committee of Lac Thuy district has directed units and mass organisations to promote the popularisation of the Party's policies and resolutions and the State's laws, as well as issued guiding documents on local religious affairs.
The Hoa Binh Steering Committee for the organisation of the fourth provincial congress of ethnic minority groups held a meeting on October 29 to discuss the progress of preparations for the congress. Dinh Cong Su, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and head of the Steering Committee chaired the event. The congress is slated for November 14-15 at the provincial Cultural Palace, expecting 250 official delegates.
Despite a low starting point, the mountainous district of Mai Chau has effectively implemented the National Target Programme on New Rural Development, resulting in significant improvements in people’s life and rural look.
Over the past years, Hoa Binh has systematically implemented the one-stop-shop and interconnected one-stop-shop mechanisms in processing administrative procedures, contributing to improving the efficiency of the work while promoting online public services.