Hanoi (VNA) – Party General Secretary Nguyen PhuTrong on December 2 chaired a Politburo meeting on a project to review the10-year implementation of a resolution on the orientations and tasks for the developmentof Ho Chi Minh City until 2020 and 2030, with a vision to 2050.

Members hailed the efforts by the Party Committeeand administration of the country's biggest metropolis in overcoming difficulties andchallenges to record many achievements in socio-economic development as well asdefence and security safeguarding.

The city’s economic scale rose 2.7 times in the 2010-2020period, while the per capita gross regional domestic product (GRDP) doubled.Its economic structure has been transformed with higher contributions from theindustrial and service sectors and high-tech agriculture, they noted, adding thatprogress has been seen in all areas, and social welfare ensured.

However, they pointed out that HCM City has faced a numberof shortcomings, including slow improvement of its investment environment, lowinternational competitiveness, and per capita income below the set target.

The Politburo said that Resolution No. 16-NQ/TW was issuedwith an aim to turn the city into a modern service-industrial city, a drivingforce for the country’s digital economy and digital society as well as aneconomic, financial, trade, science, technology and cultural centre of southeast Asia with deep and extensive international integration by2030.

By 2045, the city is expected to have become an Asia's economic,financial and service centre, an attractive global destination, withdistinctive economic and cultural development, a high quality of life, anda developed city on par with major cities in the world.

The Politburo asked the Party Committee, administration and citizens of HCM City to continue to promote their revolutionary tradition andsolidarity and work closely with relevant agencies and localities to continueeffectively implement the resolution.

It is necessary to change the mindset on the construction anddevelopment of the city in the new period, while boosting economic development,improving its international competitiveness, strengthening regionalconnectivity, speeding up infrastructure construction, and showing betterperformance in planning.

Members of the Politburo also stressed the need for HCM Cityto strengthen sustainable urban development with better adaption to climatechange, while mobilising all resources and optimising advantages and potentialfor fast and sustainable development, promoting growth in all areas and improvingpeople’s living conditions.

They also underlined the necessity for the city to focusmore on Party building, dcentralisation and delegation of power, and continueto implement pilot special policies for its development./.