Ho Chi Minh City proposes specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Thu Duc City

“Proposing to the National Assembly to add to the resolution replacing Resolution No. 54/2017 a chapter on the specific development mechanism of Thu Duc City”. That is the content of the report of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City on the implementation of Resolution No. 54/2017 of the National Assembly on piloting specific mechanisms and policies for HCMC development and Resolution 25 of the City People’s Council. Ho Chi Minh City on the implementation of Resolution 54 at the supervisory meeting of the City People’s Council on the morning of May 10.

Specifically, Ho Chi Minh City proposes to strengthen the initiative and self-responsibility through decentralization and strong authorization of state management functions and tasks for Thu Duc City. Within the administrative boundaries of Thu Duc City, the People’s Committee of Thu Duc City is entitled to perform state management functions that, according to the law, fall under the jurisdiction of specialized departments under the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City for the fields. : investment planning, finance, natural resources and environment, planning – architecture, construction, health, education, transportation. The specific state management contents that the People’s Committee of Thu Duc City is implementing will be submitted by the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City to the City Council for approval.

The city also proposed to remove the conditions restricting foreign investors’ market entry in a number of fields in Thu Duc City; The pilot project allows foreign investors to apply business investment conditions similar to domestic investors in a number of fields such as logistics, healthcare, education and trade in the city. Thu Duc with a pilot period of 5 years. At the same time, reallocate the budget, share the budget allocation ratio in the direction of increasing revenue sources for Thu Duc City, piloting additional tasks of science and technology spending for Thu Duc City.

The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City also proposed to allow the People’s Council of Thu Duc City to decide on investment policies. Chairman of Thu Duc City People’s Committee is entitled to decide to invest in Group A projects using public investment capital managed by Thu Duc City, group B and Group C projects using public investment capital managed by Ho Chi Minh City. management in Thu Duc city, except for some fields such as national defense, security, public investment, radio, television, foreign affairs…, to ensure the consistency of state management in the area HCMC.

For public investment projects of groups B and C regardless of capital sources in Thu Duc City, the mechanism for separating compensation and site clearance projects and construction and installation projects into separate projects is approved. approve the policy of independent investment; only decide on investment policy in construction and installation projects after the compensation and ground clearance project has been completed and handed over to competent state management agencies.

In addition, Ho Chi Minh City also proposed a number of other issues such as bidding for public land, bidding for public services; mechanism to receive supports and contributions from people and businesses in infrastructure investment… In particular, Ho Chi Minh City proposed to allow the city to be proactive in allocating payrolls with Thu Duc City People’s Committee. Accordingly, arranging the number of staff with the government block of Thu Duc City by 2025 is at most ¾ of the number of staff assigned to 3 districts (District 2, District 9 and Thu Duc district) before merging, reducing gradually every year in accordance with the guidelines of Resolution 1111 of the National Assembly Standing Committee; proposed Thu Duc City People’s Committee to have 4 Vice Presidents (an increase of 1 person compared to regulations)…

According to Ha Khanh