Speaking to direct, Chairman of the City People's Committee Do Thanh Trung emphasized that the last months of the year are the decisive "last sprint" to complete the GRDP growth target of 13% or more according to Resolution No. 11 of the City Party Committee. Therefore, the Chairman of the City People's Committee requested departments and localities to focus on removing bottlenecks, promote disbursement of public investment capital and consider this as a measure to evaluate officials at the end of the year. At the same time, establish progress benchmarks for each project to accelerate construction when the weather is favorable. Leaders of communes and wards must be directly responsible for site clearance work, resolutely enforcing cases of intentional delay to hand over clean ground for key projects.
Specialized agencies urgently issue the 3rd phase of mineral exploitation licenses to serve filling material sources; build a "green channel mechanism" process to shorten procedure time and complete the land database before October 20. The City Inspectorate focuses on thoroughly removing backlog projects, handling redundant headquarters to create development resources.
In the first 8 months of 2026, the city's socio-economic situation basically maintained positive growth momentum with 9/10 key targets reaching and exceeding the set scenario. Total state budget revenue in the area is estimated at 146.682 billion VND (reaching 75.3% of the estimate); export turnover is estimated at 42.2 billion USD (up 14.6%); attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) reached 3.475 million USD (exceeding the scenario); cargo throughput through ports reached 134.34 million tons and attracted more than 12.74 million tourists.
However, the growth rate of the industrial production index (IIP) in August only reached 14.02% (not reaching the scenario of 17.3%); the disbursement rate of public investment capital in 8 months only reached 54% (lower than the scenario of 63.6%). The whole city still has 19 localities that have not achieved budget revenue progress and 15 localities are behind schedule in site clearance according to plan...
