A corner of Da Nang city (Photo: VNA)Da Nang City is set to be a key socio-economic development centre of Vietnamand ASEAN, a site of global supply chains, an innovation and start-up power anda unique ocean and port urban area, according to Deputy Prime Minister TrinhDinh Dung.
The Deputy PM was speaking at an announcement to grant Government approval fromPrime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc for the city's development goals for 2030-45 onMarch 29.
Dung said the central city had enjoyed drastic growth in 2016-19, but themaster plan signed in 2013 has yet to meet the increasing demands for thecity’s economic growth.
He said PM Phuc's approval of some key plans would help Da Nang become amulti-sector development pole in Vietnam and ASEAN.
Da Nang should be a centre of innovation, trade, finance, logistics, high-techindustries, supportive industries, information technology (IT) and a city ofglobal supply chains and regional sea and port-based economic power, Dung said.
The city will hope to be an attraction and a driving economic force in linkingthe seaports of Thua Thien-Hue, Chu Lai, Ky Hà, Dung Quat and Quy Nhon, and alogistical centre for the coastal central region and the East-West Economic corridor,which links Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam, he said.
The Deputy PM also said Da Nang will become a smart and green city, anecological attraction and sustainable urban area by 2045.
Following the PM’s approval, Da Nang will begin its pilot ‘urban government’project and special mechanism to give the city greater autonomy to drawinvestment and manage its budget.
Chairman of the city’s People’s Committee Le Chung Chinh said the amendments ofthe socio-economic master plan approved by the PM will seek to set newdevelopment targets, keeping pace with the rapid urban development experiencedby the city in recent years.
Chinh said Da Nang will change its technical infrastructure plan to becompatible with becoming a key tourism site in the central region with greengrowth and have information technology (IT) applications for a smart city, aswell as environmentally-friendly waste treatment and renewable energy.
Da Nang will also build a new Lien Chieu port as an international entrance forhandling cargo ships with 100,000 deadweight tonnage (DWT) and container shipswith loading capacities from 6,000 to 8,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEUs).
The first stage of construction of Lien Chieu port will focus on infrastructureincluding piers, dykes, and storage and transhipment service for handling 5million tonnes of cargo.
Also on the occasion of the city’s Liberation Day (March 29), Vinatrans Da Nang,an international freight forwarder, began construction of its internationalstandard logistics centre on an area of more than 10,000sq.m with an investmentof 120 billion VND (5.2 million USD) in Hoa Cam Industrial Zone.
The logistics centre, set to be the largest in the central region, will provideservices for investors, exporters and importers in the central region from thethird quarter of this year.
It’s the second international cold storage project that Vinatrans Da Nang willbuild in the IZ after it debuted the 16,200sq.m logistic centre with aninvestment of 2.4 million USD in 2015./.
VNA
