A view of HCM City. The city is speeding up its project to become a smart city by 2025 (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNS/VNA) – Ho Chi Minh Cityis speeding up the progress of key sub-projects under theproject to turn the city into a smart city from 2017 to 2020 with a visionto 2025.
Thesmart city building project aims to resolve problems such as unsustainableeconomic growth, flooding, traffic congestion and pollution, and improveinteraction between the city’s administration, businesses and residents.
Itgives priority to four key sub-projects, including a smart urban operationcentre, a centre for receiving and processing urgent information,a control centre for surveillance cameras, and a database managementsystem under the city’s existing common-use shared data warehouse.
Accordingto the city’s Department of Information and Communication, the city willenhance disbursement of all planned capital this year to implement ongoing sub-projects onschedule.
Thesmart urban operation centre worth 969 billion VND (41.8 million USD) began in 2019and will be completed in 2022.
Witha total investment of 993 billion VND (42.8million USD), the centre for receiving andprocessing urgent information is expected to operate by 2025.
Thecontrol centre for surveillance cameras will be implemented from 2019 to 2022,with a cost of 549 billion VND (23.7million USD).
Around49 billion VND (2.1 million USD) is needed to build the databasemanagement system in the 2019-2022period.
Dozensof other sub-projects are also being implemented.
Vo Thi Trung Trinh, deputy director of thedepartment, said there have been obstacles to sub-projects' progress, including a lackof efficient coordination between departments and agencies indetermining information technology application.
Guidingdocuments related to conditions and order and procedures for implementing public investmentprojects have not been clear enough.
Thecity authority is continuing to receive feedback on measures to builda smart city from residents and the business community./.
VNA
