Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City hasset the target of achieving gross regional domestic product (GRDP) growth by6-6.5 percent next year.
The target was set in the city’s Resolution on 2022socio-economic tasks which was adopted in the fourth meeting of the municipalPeople’s Council for the 2021-2026 tenure on December 9.
The Resolution also devised 19 specific targets,including services accounting for over 60 percent of the GRDP, total socialinvestment nearly 35 percent, expenditure on science and technology above 0.75percent; and rate of skilled workers at 86.05 percent.
The city strives to be among top five localities interms of the Provincial Competitiveness Index and top 15 in the PublicAdministration Reform Index, with 95 percent of the public satisfied with theservice of administrative agencies.
The municipal People’s Council adopted several keytasks and measures next year, including building a mechanism on pandemiccontrol and warning, improving the capacity of medical system at the grassrootslevel, ensuring pandemic prevention and control in production, trade, services,culture and sports, among others.
Other measures also support the resumption ofproduction and trade; economic development in industry, agriculture andservices, as well as improve the quality of building urban administration andimprove business environment.
The council also approved a Resolution on the city’ssocio-economic development plan for 2021-2025. Accordingly, Ho Chi Minh Citywill become a smart urban area, a modern service and industrialised citythat maintains its role as an economic locomotive of the country and thesouthern key economic region./
