As reported by Lao Dong Newspaper, on July 30, the People's Council of Thanh Hoa province issued Resolution No. 565/NQ-HDND approving the policy of merging Dong Son district into Thanh Hoa city ; Establishing wards and arranging commune-level administrative units, period 2023 - 2025 of Thanh Hoa City.
According to the Resolution, import the entire 82.87km2 natural area and population of more than 101,000 people of Dong Son district into Thanh Hoa City.
After the merger, the city's name is Thanh Hoa City, with more than 228km2 of natural area and a population of more than 615,000 people.
Because reality shows that, after more than 15 years of implementing the Master Plan to build Thanh Hoa City to 2025, with a vision to 2035; After 12 years of adjusting and expanding administrative boundaries, the process of building and developing Thanh Hoa City has revealed inadequacies and limitations in economic development, narrowness of urban space, and land surplus. , the current population and labor size do not meet development requirements, leading to the need to expand Thanh Hoa City.
The city's economic growth is not commensurate with its potential and advantages; Infrastructure connection between inner city and suburban areas, new urban areas and old urban areas is still limited and not synchronous, causing the phenomenon of urban overload; imbalance between inner city and suburbs, affecting the implementation of urban functions; The reserve land fund for urban expansion and development is limited, not ensuring the city's future development needs.
In addition, Thanh Hoa City's role as a regional center is not adequate. Meanwhile, many new factors have appeared to motivate the city's development, such as high-speed roads and high-speed railways (planning), which are the basis for calculating and expanding the urban development space of the city. Thanh Hoa city to the west.
The merger of Dong Son district into Thanh Hoa city is consistent with local culture and history; is an inevitable trend, meeting management requirements for the urbanization process, contributing to streamlining the organization of administrative units.
Dong Son district is a locality with historical and revolutionary traditions, with many driving factors in traffic, favorable for industrial development, commercial services, urban areas, logistics...
However, currently, Dong Son district does not meet the standards of population size and natural area according to regulations, so merging Dong Son district into Thanh Hoa city is a premise to expand the scope of management of the urban government. Expand urban space, build and develop Thanh Hoa City worthy of a class I urban area, becoming a smart and civilized city.
It is known that after merging Dong Son district into Thanh Hoa city and arranging administrative units, the new Thanh Hoa city will have 47 administrative units including 33 wards and 14 communes. The merger process will take place in late 2024 or early 2025.
On August 1, information about the merger of Dong Son district into Thanh Hoa City, Mr. Dau Thanh Tung - Vice Chairman of Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee said that the merger is to meet the requirements of building and developing Thanh Hoa City worthy of position and role of Thanh Hoa urban area with Thanh Hoa province and the North and North Central regions.
