Bac Giang aims to have 20 urban areas by 2025

A corner of Bac Giang city (Photo: baobacgiang.com.vn)

Bac Giang (VNA) – Authorities of the northern province of Bac Giang have set a target to develop 20 urban areas by 2025, and due attention will be paid to infrastructure development.

The province’s Bac Giang city will build its urban development plan until 2035, vision to 2050 and complete its infrastructure network to meet standards for Class-1 urban area.

From now to 2025, the city will step up the construction of some urban residential areas as well as transportation projects.

It is to attract investment in new housing areas and apartments and improving quality of existing ones along with public services and malls.

Meanwhile, the province will issue urban development mechanisms and policies to attract investment in the field and work to enhance urban management capacity.

Bac Giang’s urban population had neared 400,000 as of the end of 2020, or 21.7 percent. It currently has 16 urban areas.

Since 2016, the province has mobilised dozens of trillions of Vietnamese dong for urban development programmes.

It implemented 47 urban and urban service development projects with total investment of over 13.59 trillion VND (589 million USD), along with 14 housing development projects with total investment of more than 8.45 trillion VND.

Of note, investment in water and transportation infrastructure exceeded 33.5 trillion VND.

Bac Giang is among the first localities to build a provincial development master plan, which serves as the foundation for its future socio-economic development, including urban expansion./.