Int’l opinions gathered for draft 10-year national master planning
The Ministry of Planning and Investment and the World Bank (WB) in Vietnam jointly held a conference in Hanoi on July 26 to gather opinions from international organisations and consultants on the draft national master planning for the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050.
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Planning andInvestment and the World Bank (WB) in Vietnam jointly held a conference inHanoi on July 26 to gather opinions from international organisations andconsultants on the draft national master planning for the 2021-2030 period witha vision to 2050.
According to Dr. Tran Hong Quang, Director of the VietnamInstitute for Development Strategies, the master planning aims to create anefficient and sustainable spatial distribution model for national development,forming motivation regions, economic centres, strategic cities, concerted andmodern infrastructure networks with strong connections among regions, urban andrural areas.
This will prompt the country’s high economic growth, whilespeeding up the implementation of the goal of becoming a developing countrywith modern industry and high middle income by 2030 and a developed countrywith high-income, equality, democracy and civilised society by 2050, he said.
Commenting on the draft master plan, Dr. Danny Leipzigerfrom the WB said that the planning showed greater attention to the environment,climate change and economic corridors.
An overview of the conference (Photo: MPI)
Highlighting a number of changing factors, he advised Vietnamto continuously update the planning to make sure it suits the reality, whilelearning experience from other countries to make yearly amendments.
Experts held that it is necessary to link small citieswith big urban areas, and underlined the need for Vietnam to promote itscompetitive advantages of particular regions and be clearly aware of risks.
Regarding the orientations for the development of thenational urban system included in the draft planning, Dr. Pho Duc Tung from the WBsaid that the development of the system should ensure sustainability and security-defence.
The scale of the urban system will inevitably increase withthe urbanisation rate expected to reach 50% in 2030 and 70% in 2050, making up85% of GDP by 2030, he said, adding that land for urban areas is forecast to make up 2.3% of the country’s natural area.
Planning and infrastructure should be one step faster toguide urban development, he added.
Dr. Tung underlined that the urban system is the core ofeconomic growth, therefore the structure of the urban system needs to beassociated with the economic development strategy. Particularly, it isnecessary to focus on developing corridors and key areas into locomotive ofeconomic growth.
Carolyn Turk, WB Country Director for Vietnam, pointed to theneed to reserve room for factors that are not foreseen, while changing theapproach according to the overall national - regional planning, instead of eachlocality as before./.
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A view of Da Nang city (Photo: VNA) 
An overview of the conference (Photo: MPI) 
