On the afternoon of June 29, Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc inspected the Xuyen Tam canal renovation project - one of the largest urban embellishment projects in Ho Chi Minh City today.
The project has a total length of nearly 9 km, passing through Gia Dinh, Binh Thanh, Binh Loi Trung and An Nhon wards, with a total investment of more than 17,000 billion VND. Of which, compensation, support and resettlement costs account for about 14,000 billion VND.
To implement the project, the city must recover land from 2,190 cases, including 1,293 cases of full clearance and 897 cases of partial clearance.
At the inspection, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc said that during the inspection in March 2026, he requested localities to focus manpower and complete the handover of land before June 30.
According to reports, to date, 4 wards have completed 100% of site handover work. For the remaining locality, the last obstacle related to one household has also been removed when people agreed to hand over in the afternoon of the same day.
Assessing this result, Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc praised the localities for decisively directing and actively mobilizing people, and at the same time thanked the households along the canal route for accompanying, sharing and agreeing to hand over houses and land for the project to be implemented.
When the site is ready, the remaining task belongs to the construction unit. I propose that the investor and contractor shorten the implementation time to the maximum, apply optimal solutions to both ensure the quality of the project and strive to complete the project by the end of 2027" - Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee emphasized.
According to Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc, after deploying Xuyen Tam canal, the city will continue to focus on renovating houses along canals and ditches in the old District 4 and District 8.
The Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee said that the city has raised the target of renovating houses along canals and ditches from 50% to 100% before 2030. Instead of relocating about 20,000 houses as initially planned, Ho Chi Minh City aims to relocate all about 40,000 houses on and along canals and ditches.
According to Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc, the doubling of the target shows the city's great political determination, and at the same time requires the construction progress of projects to be accelerated further.
In the coming time, Ho Chi Minh City will direct wards and communes with projects passing through to focus highly on site clearance work, considering this as a key task.
The city will prioritize resources to invest in canal dyke systems, relocate people to more spacious places to live, thereby improving the environment, embellishing the city and building a green, clean, beautiful, and livable Ho Chi Minh City.
The Xuyen Tam canal renovation project includes items: dredging the canal bed 3.5 m deep, expanding the canal bed from 20 - 30 m, building a synchronous wastewater and rainwater collection system.
On both sides of the canal, a 6 m wide traffic road (two lanes on each side), a 3 - 4 m wide sidewalk and a system of parks and green trees will be built.
