Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee VoVan Hoan made the affirmation at a meeting between newly-appointed heads ofVietnamese representative agencies abroad, and representatives from 19localities in the southern key economic region and the Mekong Delta.
He highlighted development projects in the southerncity like those on building smart urban areas, a financial centre and ahighly innovative and interactive urban area to the east of the city.
HCM City needs external resources in terms of capital,knowledge, science and technology to realise its socio-economic developmenttargets, Hoan said, suggesting the chief representatives help the city furtherenhance its collaboration with foreign localities.
HCM City wants to learn from foreign experience inthe decentralisation of power and the building of typical mechanisms for the“city in city” model, enabling ThuDuc city in the southern metropolis to bring into full play its potential andstrength in development.
They pledged to better connect the localities in thesouthern key economic region and the Mekong Delta, with foreign partners indelegation exchange and collaboration in economy, trade, investment, andscience-technology./.