Hanoi strives to attain an average annual gross domestic product (GDP) of 9.5-10 percent in the 2011-2015 period with services making up 56 percent by 2015.

The target was set out at the 18 th meeting of the Executive Committee of the municipal Party’s Committee on Jan. 11.

The city will also start implementing its industrialisation and modernisation and restructuring service-industry-agriculture in 2015.

Its average per-capita income is estimated to reach 70-72 million VND and the rate of poor households under the new poverty line in the city will be less than one percent in 2015.

The city plans to build 1.5 million sq.m of housing per year./.