Ho Chi Minh City studies comprehensive tuition exemption policy
On the morning of January 8, at the Conference of the Government and local authorities, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Van Mai said that in terms of growth, Ho Chi Minh City achieved a growth rate of 7.17%; budget revenue was about 508,000 billion VND.
What Ho Chi Minh City is very pleased with is the attention, leadership, and direction that has helped the city resolve its difficulties and problems. Thanks to that, many projects that have been stagnant for many years have been restarted, completed, and put into use, including Metro Line 1.
Many large projects have been prepared, approved by competent authorities, such as the International Financial Center project, the urban railway project, the Can Gio International Transit Port project, Ring Road 4, the Ho Chi Minh City - Moc Bai Expressway... These are strategic infrastructure projects of the region.
In 2025, the city will seriously organize and reorganize the apparatus according to the direction of the Central Government, associated with restructuring functions and tasks, restructuring the team of civil servants and public employees, and strongly transforming digitally to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Coordinate to deploy key projects such as Terminal T3 and Ring Road 3 to basically complete by the end of 2025.
The city will urgently complete and put into operation the city's Creative Startup Center in conjunction with promoting the activities of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution Center in the World Economic Forum network.
"We will coordinate with the Ministry of Science and Technology to put the Southern National Center for Science, Technology and Innovation into operation and consider these as important contents to implement Resolution 57 of the Politburo," the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee informed.
The city will study policies on free tuition, comprehensive health care, social security programs...
Ho Chi Minh City wants to have orientation and legal framework for apparatus arrangement
At the conference, the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee stated that the city proposed 3 contents to the Government and the Prime Minister.
First, support the city to resolve the backlog. The city hopes to continue to receive attention from the Government, the Prime Minister, and the Steering Committee to help free up resources for the economy, and if resolved well, tens of thousands of billions of VND will certainly enter the economy by 2025.
Second, regarding the organizational arrangement, the city really wants to have an orientation and legal framework for the state administrative agency system to manage key, basic issues. As for matters that can be transferred to the economy and society, we need a legal framework to promote the strength of the economy and society.
Third, we recommend that the Government, the Prime Minister, and the Chairmen of two very important economic regional councils, the Red River Delta and the Southeast Region, should study and propose policy mechanisms to promote regional connectivity and exploit the resources of the two regions.
"If we do well, these two regions will contribute over 50% of the country's GDP, helping the country firmly enter a new era," said the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee.
