Ho Chi Minh City Party Chief Nguyen Thien Nhan received former US President Barack Obama yesterday when the former US President paid a courtesy visit to the city party leader.
Politburo member, secretary of HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan together with leaders of the Departments of Science and Technology, Education and Training, Industry and Trade and HCMC Business Association visited HCMC University of Technology and Education yesterday afternoon.
Three long term breakthrough solutions have been supplemented to sufficiently mobilize resources and create motive power for HCMC to develop more sustainably, faster than before and suitably with current urban development rules, said Secretary of HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan in an interview with Sai Gon Giai Phong Newspaper.
HCMC People’s Committee yesterday organized a conference calling on investors to implement six urban planning projects to remove 6,223 canal houses with total capital expected to reach VND19,024 billion (US$838 million).
Ho Chi Minh City will establish an innovative urban area in the east of the city on the basic of connecting Saigon Hi-Tech Park in District 9, HCMC National University in Thu Duc and the urban area and financial center in District 2.
Ho Chi Minh City honoured ten outstanding young citizens of 2017, who excel in their fields and exemplify the best attributes of the city’s young people, in a ceremony on January 1.
The high level delegation from HCMC led by Secretary of the city Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan yesterday worked with leaders of California University, Los Angeles (UCLA), making it the final working session of the delegation’s eight day visit to the US.
Ho Chi Minh City would establish an innovative startup consulting center in Thu Thiem new urban area and an employment website for overseas high level human resource to work in Vietnam, said City Party Chief Nguyen Thien Nhan on December 11.
Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan on December 9 said he hoped that Vietnamese startups in the United States would continue contributing initiatives and resources to improve the city’s startup ecosystem.
The project of developing HCMC into a smart city will help the city forecast better, anticipate difficulties and have preventive measures. Specially, residents are the subject of creativeness and the smart city will make them more creative, said city party chief Nguyen Thien Nhan yesterday.
Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan proposed the Government to consider putting vegetable, flower and fruit into the group of national key products at the plenary session of the parliament yesterday morning.
The Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) in HCMC reached 7.97 percent in the first nine months this year, higher than 7.76 percent during the same period last year.
Although agriculture accounts for only 0.8 percent of Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP), HCMC still has about 1 million farmers so relevant sides should assist them to increase income, said HCMC Party Committee Secretary Nguyen Thien Nhan yesterday.
Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan yesterday visited Deutsches Haus Ho Chi Minh City at 22 Le Duan street, Ben Nghe ward, District 1.
Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan and other leaders yesterday received a high level delegation of the Cuban National Assembly of People's Power, led by chairman Juan Esteban Lazo Hernandez, during its working visit to the city.
HCMC Party Chief Nguyen Thien Nhan yesterday proposed Microsoft to study and cooperate with agencies and businesses for developing the city into a smart city soon and efficiently.