Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong extends New Year wishes to locals in Hanoi (Photo: VNA)The Party chief lauded the city’s achievements in the pastyear, noting that the capital is experiencing a flourishing period with higheconomic growth and improved infrastructure system as well as local’s livingconditions.
With an area of 3,300 square kilometres and a population ofabout 9 million, last year, Hanoi reached a GDP growth of 8.2 percent and 186trillion VND of budget collection or 110 percent of the estimate. As many as 66percent of local rural communes were recognised as new-style rural areas.
The Party chief highlighted that there is room for the cityto further grow, asking the locality to continue focusing on boosting economicdevelopment and fulfilling all socio-economic targets, thus assuring itsimportant role as the major economic hub of the country.
At the same time, Hanoi should maintain and promote its culturalidentity and unique characteristics, while boosting tourism and showing betterperformance in urban management as well as security and social orderprotection, he stressed.
The Party leader also underscored the need for the city totake pioneer role in the building of Party and political system as well asadministrative reform.
On behalf of the city, Secretary of the municipal PartyCommittee Hoang Trung Hai pledged that Hanoi will exert every efforts toovercome all shortcomings and limitations to successfully fulfill all settargets, thus building an elegant, civilized and modern city.
The same day, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong alsooffered incense to Kinh Ly Thai To at his statue in the Ly Thai To Garden,visited Ngoc Son Temple and King Le Thai To’s Monument in Nam Huong Templehistorical relic site, and walked around the Hoan Kiem Lake.-VNA
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