Smart urban development, sustainable mobility, the digital economy, and modern trade are expected to open a new chapter in cooperation between Moscow and the southern city.
The conference is expected to attract around 600 delegates, including representatives from Asian cities, international organizations, businesses, experts, and scientists.
The plan aims to synchronously implement solutions to build the capital into a smart city by 2030; connect with smart city networks nationally, regionally, and globally.
In planning to build a smart city and in implementing the “Digital transformation in Da Nang to 2025 and orientation to 2030” project, central Da Nang city has effectively deployed an application to manage and monitor ambulance journeys. The city will use a similar application for fire trucks and garbage trucks in the future.
The Ministry of Construction has sent a document to People’s Committees of cities and provinces around the country on promoting sustainable smart urban development. It must be closely linked with digital transformation and planning, and proceed step-by-step and not develop too quickly, with pilots conducted initially to ensure short-term and long-term investment efficiency.
Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen has issued a Directive on promoting digital transformation and building the southern metropolis into a smart city. The directive states that the three pillars of the digital transformation program are digital government, the digital economy, and the digital society. The digital economy is to contribute 25 per cent of the city’s gross regional domestic product (GRDP) by 2025.
Forty-one of Vietnam’s 63 cities and provinces have prepared a smart city development project. At a conference on blockchain applications held on August 18, analysts said metropolises like Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi have the potential to build smart cities if there are appropriate policies focusing on three platforms: the Internet of Things (IoT), human resources, and real estate.
Vietnam has identified smart city development as one of its key tasks, and aims to form a number of smart urban chains in the northern, southern and central key economic regions and gradually connect these with smart city networks in the region and the world. A conference was held on June 28 to seek solutions to promote smart urban chains in the Red River Delta in the country’s north.
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