Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved Wednesday a blueprint to expand Ho Chi Minh City to become a megacity by the year 2025, with six new suburb districts to be merged in.
With the six new districts covering 35,200 hectares, HCMC will embrace a total surface of 245,000 hectares as the population grows up from 7 million now to 10 million in 15 years time, according to the new urban plan.
Then, the overall city will be divided into six satellite urban centers – each including some districts – plus the inner urban area to host the administrative center.
The seven sections will be connected together with a system of belt highways and underground metro routes.
The plan has been designed to avoid a continuation of the current problem of rampant construction that has left the city a messy jumble of houses, shops and office buildings.
The main administrative heart of the expanded HCMC will lie in the current inner-city districts 1 and 3 and the northeastern suburb of Thu Thiem, which is still under construction.
The six new satellite urban centers, along with the existing suburb of Saigon South Phu My Hung, will be on the outskirts of HCMC, forming the gateway to neighboring regions.
Under the plan, each HCMC resident will have an average of 65 square meters of housing by 2025, much more than the current 14 square meters per head.
HCMC will continue boasting its leading role as the biggest economic hub of the region including neighboring provinces of Binh Duong, Tay Ninh, Long An, Dong Nai, and Ba Ria Vung Tau.
http://www.vietnewsonline.vn/News/Society/10874/Master-plan-turns-Ho-Chi-Minh-City-into-megacity.htm
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