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Vietnamese PM OK’s Ho Chi Minh City’s proposals for special mechanisms

Vietnamese PM OK’s Ho Chi Minh City’s proposals for special mechanisms

Wednesday, June 29, 2016, 11:28 GMT+7

Several proposals by Ho Chi Minh City regarding policies and the administration were generally agreed upon by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and other senior government officials at a meeting on Monday to discuss city issues.

The meeting was attended by members of the Vietnamese cabinet and chiefs of Ho Chi Minh City administrative bodies, during which many socio-economic issues of the city were put up for discussion.

Senior city officials proposed a list of seven categories of proposal, which included 28 detailed requests aimed at improving the city’s role as Vietnam’s economic hub.

The proposals tackled several issues concerning decentralized authorization, special financial mechanisms, public administration, infrastructure, and public security.

In the field of healthcare, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong suggested that the government provide capital and allow the city to use its own budget to build five new hospitals.

Agreeing with the proposal, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien added that the construction of these hospitals should be carried out as soon as possible, emphasizing the city’s serious lack of hospital beds compared to its rate of development.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Phuc said that Ho Chi Minh City lacked hi-tech hospitals to serve as the medical center of the region, let alone of the whole country.

“Ho Chi Minh City can’t play on the same level as the mountainous localities in the north,” the prime minister said.

Regarding the city’s proposal to establish its own Food Safety Management Authority, Health Minister Tien said she was in complete agreement with the idea, saying that current mechanisms placed too much stress on the municipal Department of Health.

During the meeting, Ho Chi Minh City officials proposed that the city be trusted to decide on the forms of investment for its own future infrastructural plans, as well as increasing its police force to maintain order in fast-developing areas of the city.

High speed trains aren’t pulled by steam engines

Ho Chi Minh City Party Chief Dinh La Thang said at the meeting that solving these problems for the city meant solving the same problems for the entire country.

All proposals presented at the meeting, Thang said, were in accordance with a previous resolution by the country’s Politburo that had allowed the city to pilot any issue unregulated by law.

“Over the last 40 years, Ho Chi Minh City has always been the locomotive of the country’s economic train,” Thang said. “A locomotive can’t run on coal power or diesel forever; it needs a new form of fuel. It must run on the best fuel available, nuclear even, to accelerate the whole train.”

In his closing remarks, Prime Minister Phuc praised the city’s economic development and socio-political stability during recent complicated situations, while also demanding that the city aim for “higher and bigger dreams” to live up to its place as the flagship of the country’s economy.

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