Chairwoman of the HCM City People’s Council Nguyen Thi Quyet Tam urged the municipal People’s Committee act immediately to implement resolutions passed by the council and improve growth quality.
The second session of the HCM City People’s Council, ninth tenure (Source: qdnd.vn)
HCM City (VNA) – Chairwoman of t💞he Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council Nguyen Thi Quyet Tam urged the municipal People’s Committee act immediately to implement resolutions passed by the council and improve growth quality.
She made the remarks in her closing speech at the second session of the municipal People’s Council, ninth tenure, on August 5.
After three days of sitting, the session passed several resolutions addressing issues of importance, including tuition fees for schools in the public general education system and additional preferences for a project invested by Samsung Group at the city’s High-Tech Park.
On tasks for the remaining months of the year, the council requested the municipal government to focus on achieving a GRDP growth of 8 percent in 2016 and carrying out the set seven breakthrough programmes.
The city will also continue to improve its investment climate and competitiveness, support the business circle’s development, encourage research activities and scientific-technological applications, and complete a programme on supporting SMEs and raising economic integration capacity during the 2016-2020 period.-VNA
Thirteen years after it opened, the SaiGon Hi-tech Park (SHTP) has achieved total sales of 13.6 billion USD, including 13.5 billion USD in export value.
The HCM City economy has maintained an increasingly positive trend and a stable economic growth in the first 11 months of the year, creating favourable conditions for the year's socio-economic targets
Socio-economic development in Ho Chi Minh City in the first three months of this year continues to show strong growth across fields, according to the municipal People’s Committee.
The slowdown in retail and manufacturing sectors has reduced the speed of HCM City’s economic engine despite significant gains in services, trade, industry and agriculture.
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The second session of the HCM City People’s Council, ninth tenure (Source: qdnd.vn)
