The project to renovate the North bank of Doi canal is about 4.3 km long, passing through Chanh Hung and Phu Dinh wards (formerly District 8), invested by the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Infrastructure Construction Investment Project Management Board (Urban Infrastructure Board).
In the total investment of more than 7,300 billion VND, compensation and site clearance costs account for 5,575 billion VND.
The main items of the project include building a 4.3 km long embankment, dredging part of the northern canal bed, and upgrading Hoai Thanh and Nguyen Duy roads with a road surface width of 20 m.
The project also expands Nguyen Duy extended road from alley 157 Hung Phu to Chu Y bridge (16 m wide), builds Hiep An 2 bridge, along with drainage, lighting, green trees and an inland waterway wharf to serve guests.
On March 22, the Urban Infrastructure Board said that 2 out of 3 construction packages are currently under construction.
Construction package 1 (Km0+241.47 - Km1+960) started construction on December 12, 2025, reaching about 30% of the construction volume, expected to be completed in December 2026.
Construction package 2 - Hiep An 2 bridge (Km1+960 - Km2+280) started construction on September 15, 2025, reaching 42% of the volume, expected to be completed in September 2026.
Construction package 3 (Km2+280 - Km4+680) is currently selecting contractors, expected to be implemented from April 2026 and completed in August 2027.
The project affects 1,604 households and organizations, with a total recovered area of 5.85 hectares. To date, 1,475/1,604 cases have handed over land, reaching about 92%.
The total number of households in need of receiving resettlement apartments is 243, which have been arranged in apartment buildings: 35 Ho Ngoc Lam (11 households), 2. 225 Pham The Hien (186 households), 481 Ba Dinh (46 households).
However, there are still 129 cases that have not handed over land, including: Package 1 still 90/735 households, package 2 still 11/96 households and package 3 still 28/772 households.
The Ho Chi Minh City Urban Infrastructure Board has requested the People's Committees of Phu Dinh and Chanh Hung wards to focus on accelerating compensation and site clearance work, in order to hand over the entire site in March and April 2026, ensuring synchronous construction progress of items, helping the project to be completed on schedule.
Expected to be completed in 2027, the project to renovate the North bank of Doi canal is expected to significantly improve the living environment for thousands of households, reduce flooding, pollution and create a spacious urban appearance for the southern area of Ho Chi Minh City.
In addition to the North bank, Ho Chi Minh City is also preparing to relocate more than 5,800 households in Chanh Hung and Binh Dong wards to implement the urban embellishment project in the South bank of Doi canal area.
According to the plan, the renovation of the south bank of Doi canal is divided into 4 projects, implemented in the period 2026 - 2029.
The section from Rach Ong bridge to Mat bridge (Chanh Hung ward) is expected to clear 860 houses, with a total investment of more than 5,400 billion VND; the section from Mat bridge to Hiep An bridge needs to relocate 2,042 houses, with an investment of more than 10,000 billion VND.
In Binh Dong ward, the section from Hiep An bridge to Ba Tang bridge is expected to relocate 1,278 households, with a total capital of nearly 9,600 billion VND; the section from Ba Tang bridge to the south bank of Doi canal needs to clear 1,627 households, with a total investment of more than 10,000 billion VND.
