The above content was emphasized by Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc at the conference summarizing the implementation of socio-economic development tasks in 2025, and at the same time thoroughly grasping and deploying tasks for 2026, held on January 6.
According to the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, in the coming time, the City will face many intertwined difficulties and challenges, requiring special and breakthrough solutions to achieve the GRDP growth target of over 10% in 2026.
This is a key factor to help Ho Chi Minh City continue to maintain its leading economic role, creating a driving force to spread to the Southeast Economic Region and the whole country.
To realize this goal, city leaders requested all levels and sectors to focus highly, implement drastically and synchronously key tasks.
Ho Chi Minh City continues to promote 3 traditional growth drivers including production, consumption and export; and at the same time promote 3 new drivers: international financial centers, seaport - logistics system and innovation associated with green transformation, digital transformation.
Along with that, the City will implement Ho Chi Minh City's planning after merging 3 provinces and cities, closely following the orientation of forming "3 regions - 1 special zone - 3 corridors - 5 driving forces".
Ho Chi Minh City strives to increase budget revenue in 2026 by 10% compared to 2025; accelerate the disbursement of public investment, in which site clearance is identified as a top priority task.
In particular, the City aims to completely handle the remaining backlog projects in the first quarter of 2026 (about 80% were handled in 2025), in which the focus is on completing the site clearance of Thu Thiem New Urban Area, creating conditions for the development of this urban area to be worthy of the center of the New City.
Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee emphasized that the City will focus on implementing key projects to fundamentally change the urban appearance and effectively solve the current "3 major bottlenecks" of flooding, traffic congestion and environmental pollution.
Strategic infrastructure projects such as expanding National Highway 22, National Highway 13, Ring Road 4, Can Gio bridge, Thu Thiem 4 bridge, metro lines,... must be implemented on schedule, ensuring quality. If done well, the progress of public investment will exceed the plan and make a great contribution to growth in the coming time" - Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee affirmed.
Besides economic development, Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc requested to continue to focus on education, health, culture and social security, taking the goal of improving the quality of life and happiness of the people as the center.
The city will effectively implement Resolution 71 of the Politburo on breakthroughs in education and training development; continue to invest in completing the school and classroom system, striving to reach 280 classrooms/10,000 people, especially in rapidly increasing population areas.
The Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee requested units to organize well the work of taking care of the Binh Ngo Lunar New Year 2026 for policy beneficiaries and the poor, ensuring a joyful, safe, economical and compassionate spirit.
