Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just issued a plan on implementing the project to develop river embankments and the city's riverside service economy in 2024 - 2025.
According to the City People's Committee, the development of river embankments and riverside service economies aims to promote historical and ecological cultural values that create urban characteristics to increase attraction and potential for developing vertical service economies. Saigon river.
On the basis of reviewing, researching and perfecting mechanisms and planning as a basis for implementing investment projects to build river embankments and multi-functional green infrastructure to improve the urban environment, contributing to the process of economic restructuring of knowledge and high-tech services; Select feasible solutions and effective implementation methods to ensure the content and progress of project implementation.
The city also organized the implementation and added requirements for regional spatial development planning along the Saigon River bank to the project to adjust the general planning of Ho Chi Minh City to 2040, with a vision to 2060.
Accordingly, the city requires relevant departments, branches and localities to identify and build maps of the locations of existing river embankments on the Saigon River to propose roadmaps, plans and solutions to build river embankments. . On that basis, it will be proposed to effectively exploit, use and promote land resources in areas along the Saigon River, ensuring balance of land resources for construction investment and investment. time to improve the landscape, natural environment, and respond to climate change in the region. Propose programs to train and foster management human resources and attract experts to serve related economic and service industry groups.
The city assigned relevant units to review construction planning and land use planning along the Saigon River within the riverbank protection corridor. Building an integrated database (yards, technical infrastructure, riverbank protection embankments, potential development locations, connecting bridges,...) based on industry management project information , tourism development programs, planning projects,... synchronize policies and connection plans to propose ideas to adjust the development planning of the Saigon River corridor.
At the same time, relevant units are also assigned to coordinate and propose to ensure the legal corridor on management and use regulations to soon adjust and complete the plan to build temporary embankments, permanent embankments, green infrastructure, and transportation. Riverside roads have special policies to support and encourage investors, with priority given to the implementation of public works, boat parking, commerce, services, and parks. International cooperation to research planning and development management strategies, propose green infrastructure models (technical infrastructure and social infrastructure) to effectively use the corridor along the Saigon River.
