The city will call for investment in 54 projects under Public PrivatePartnerships (PPP), with total funding of 18.47 trillion VND (813.54 millionUSD).
Due to its limited budget, the city is outlining new policies to meetdevelopment requirements in order to attract domestic and foreign resources,including investors in PPPs.
Social housing, resettlement areas, traffic works, and anti-flooding andenvironmental projects are all in need of funding.
The city’s total investments reached more than 310.5 trillion VND (13.67billion USD) last year, an increase of 8.9 percent over 2015, counting for 30percent of the city’s Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP), according to theDepartment of Planning and Investment.
Of the figure, investment from private companies accounted for 65 percent, arise of 13.8 percent over the previous year.
Foreign investment accounted for more than 15 percent of total investment,according to the department.-VNA