Improving Urban Infrastructure Systems

Dong Nai, located in the Southern Key Economic Zone, is considered to have an active and sustainable development with the highest growth rate across the country. It is also the industrial, commercial and financial centre with a concentration of large urban areas.

 

At present, the transport system has been gradually overloaded, failing to keep up with the socio-economic development of the region in general and of Dong Nai in particular. Thus, Dong Nai Provincial People Committee has proposed that the Government and Ministry of Construction support the upgrading of regional transport infrastructure.

 

Specifically, there should be an upgrade in highways and inter-regional ring roads connecting HCMC – Long Thanh – Dau Giay, Bien Hoa – Vung Tau, Dau Giay – Phan Thiet, Dau Giay Highway – Da Lat, Bridge Road in District 9 of HCMC – Nhon Trach, inter-region highway Ben Luc – Nhon Trach – Long Thanh, ring roads of 4 southern key regions. The province also completed the construction and put into operation Highway 51; newly built a section in Highway 1 bypassing Bien Hoa city, Long Khanh township and expanded Highway 20. Those are crucial routes of the Southern Key Economic Zone and HCMC. The formation of highway roads, inter-region belt-lines will curtail the journey from HCMC and Mekong Delta province to Dong Nai, Vung Tau and Northern provinces, boosting the establishment and development of satellite urban areas around HCMC such as Long Thanh, Nhon Trach, Go Dau, and Phu My.

 

At the same time, Dong Nai's technical infrastructure system has received more and more emphasis. According to Mr Nguyen Thanh Lam, Deputy Director of Dong Nai Department of Construction, a modern, technical infrastructure system built and developed comprehensively will be the crucial physical foundation for sustainable urban development. For a firm base for the period 2015-2020, it is necessary and urgent to invest in and upgrade technical infrastructure, focus on major fields of water supply and drainage systems, telecommunication, electricity, transport and other infrastructure networks funded by state budget, aids and other mobilized funds.

 

In the past years, in light of national industrialization and modernization, Dong Nai has seen the development of many industrial zones, complexes and a rather quick urbanization pace. Many legal documents on construction management in general and construction order management in particular have been introduced timely to meet urban and social – economic development needs. The provincial localities have seen progress in construction management in general and in construction order management activities in particular, reflected in remarkable changes in construction planning activities in terms of quantity and quality; administrative reforms, much less troublesome procedures to issue construction licenses, attention paid to construction management; fostered construction order management and administrative violations in the construction sector trending downward.

 

Sharing about sectoral targets in coming time, Mr Lam said that the province aims to boost communication on construction-related legal documents; actively reform administrative procedures and foster construction management; coordinate with other departments and agencies to comprehensively promote real estate markets, attract social resources, encourage economic sectors to invest and expand property goods, especially complete buildings for production and trade, technical and social infrastructure; concentrating on strengthening construction workforces and training human resources to meet sectoral development needs.