Ho Chi Minh City is the largest economic center of the country, a gathering place for millions of workers from all over the country, so that requirement becomes even more urgent and topical.
A city only truly develops when people fully enjoy the fruits of growth. That is not only in high-rise buildings, metro lines or modern urban areas, but must first be measured by the daily quality of life of each citizen.
For workers and laborers, they are the ones who directly create economic value for the city, but at the same time are also the group that bears the most pressure on housing, living expenses, healthcare and education. Caring for this force is also creating a material and internal foundation for Ho Chi Minh City.
When Party and State leaders emphasize that people must enjoy a safer living environment, more convenient transportation, more suitable housing, better schools, better hospitals, more cultural space and wider green space, that is not only a general goal but also a specific requirement for the Ho Chi Minh City government.
This requires the government to change its thinking from management to service, from administration to development creation, from average to targeting vulnerable groups.
Ho Chi Minh City is facing new development requirements with rapid urbanization, large population size and increasingly high international competitive pressure. In that context, putting the quality of life of the people at the center is not only a choice, but an inevitable path for sustainable development.
Caring for people's lives needs to become a specific system of criteria in each policy decision, each project, and each social security policy of the city, as required by General Secretary and President To Lam: "A city named after Uncle Ho must take the lead in innovation and creativity; must be dynamic but disciplined; modern but humane; rich and strong but meaningful; deeply integrated but always maintaining identity, maintaining national and ethnic interests; developing quickly but must be sustainable and inclusive, for the happiness of the people".
