Former President Nguyen Minh Triet and former Prime Minister Phan VanKhai have joined top leaders of Ho Chi Minh City and other provinces,scientists and researchers to review the city's development over thepast 40 years and discuss strategies and plan for the upcoming period.
Theseminar, titled "HCM City – 40 years of construction, development andintegration", was organised in the city on March 17 by the municipalParty Committee, People's Committee, and Fatherland Front Committee toopen the 40th anniversary celebrations of the liberation of the southand the country’s reunification.
Most of the attendees as well asthe 125 reports tabled at the seminar focused on the city's role as thenation's economic, cultural, educational, scientific, and technologicalcentre and a hub for international exchanges and global integration.
LeThanh Hai, Politburo member and Secretary of the city Party Committee,said the current happiness and wealth of the people were attributable topeople who fought for more than a century against invaders and spent 40years building and protecting the country.
Delegates agreed thatHCM City has contributed much to shaping the nation's renewal policyand, in the last 40 years, faced many difficulties and challenges in thefight against economic exhaustion and hunger.
For the last 40years the city's achievements contributed to the region and country,confirming its centrality to the country, they said.
Hai said following its rapid economic growth the city contributed 30 percent of the Government's revenues.
"In the past 40 years the city faced harsh challenges in fighting backwardness to create something new."
Butin comparison with other places in the neighbourhood, the city stillfaces shortcomings like low competitiveness, flooding, trafficcongestion and accidents, overloading at hospitals, and lack of foodsafety, he admitted.
In her opening speech, Nguyen Thi Quyet Tam,Deputy Secretary of the city Party Committee and Chairwoman of thePeople's Council, said the seminar is to underscore the city'scontributions to the nation's development.
The reports tabled at the seminar are set to be collected and published as a book.-VNA
Theseminar, titled "HCM City – 40 years of construction, development andintegration", was organised in the city on March 17 by the municipalParty Committee, People's Committee, and Fatherland Front Committee toopen the 40th anniversary celebrations of the liberation of the southand the country’s reunification.
Most of the attendees as well asthe 125 reports tabled at the seminar focused on the city's role as thenation's economic, cultural, educational, scientific, and technologicalcentre and a hub for international exchanges and global integration.
LeThanh Hai, Politburo member and Secretary of the city Party Committee,said the current happiness and wealth of the people were attributable topeople who fought for more than a century against invaders and spent 40years building and protecting the country.
Delegates agreed thatHCM City has contributed much to shaping the nation's renewal policyand, in the last 40 years, faced many difficulties and challenges in thefight against economic exhaustion and hunger.
For the last 40years the city's achievements contributed to the region and country,confirming its centrality to the country, they said.
Hai said following its rapid economic growth the city contributed 30 percent of the Government's revenues.
"In the past 40 years the city faced harsh challenges in fighting backwardness to create something new."
Butin comparison with other places in the neighbourhood, the city stillfaces shortcomings like low competitiveness, flooding, trafficcongestion and accidents, overloading at hospitals, and lack of foodsafety, he admitted.
In her opening speech, Nguyen Thi Quyet Tam,Deputy Secretary of the city Party Committee and Chairwoman of thePeople's Council, said the seminar is to underscore the city'scontributions to the nation's development.
The reports tabled at the seminar are set to be collected and published as a book.-VNA
