Lao Cai City focuses on upgrading roads according to the criteria of a type I urban area.

Lao Cai City has upgraded more than 30 inner-city roads (small roads now upgraded and expanded according to the criteria of a type I urban area), and at the same time implemented a model of undergrounding power lines and telecommunication cables to modernize the urban area.

Construction of drainage project on Le Dai Hanh street.

Le Dai Hanh Street, Kim Tan Ward was approved by the City People's Committee for a project to renovate the drainage system, expand the road surface, and design a road surface expansion from 6m to 7.5m along with a drainage system, underground power cable system, and information cable system, with the goal of improving and upgrading traffic technical infrastructure, environmental landscape, ensuring traffic safety, and gradually meeting the criteria of a type I urban area.

The construction items are carried out in a rolling manner to ensure people's travel.

Mr. Nguyen Duc Tien, technical officer of Tung Long enterprise - the construction unit of the road, said: With the approved items, the unit is implementing them in a rolling manner, ensuring safety, quality and aesthetics as they are completed.

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Tan in Group 30, Kim Tan Ward shared: People on Le Dai Hanh Street are very supportive of the city's road and urban renovation. The road upgrade will create a cleaner, more beautiful and neat space for the road, corridors and sidewalks to serve the people. The construction process is regularly monitored and commented by the people to ensure it is suitable for daily life and travel needs.

Currently, the city is synchronously upgrading 11 routes including: Hoang Van Thu, Chu Van An, Road D1 (Cam Duong commune), Hoang Lien, Hung Hoa, Le Thanh, Ngo Quyen, Le Lai, Luong Van Can, Hoang Quoc Viet and Provincial Road 156 through Hop Thanh commune, with a total investment of nearly 174 billion VND.

Completing sidewalks on Chu Van An street, Kim Tan ward.

Mr. Dao Minh Khanh, Head of the City's Urban Management Department, said: Implementing Project No. 01 of the city on synchronous development of infrastructure in the area to meet the criteria of a type I urban area (phase 2020 - 2025) with the goal of expanding the standard inner-city roads with a surface of 6m to 7.5m to serve convenient traffic for the people and to make the urban area cleaner - more beautiful - more modern. Up to now, the city has expanded more than 30 roads and continues to strive to deploy in the coming time, the period 2025 - 2030 will complete the upgrading of more than 100 roads and streets to ensure traffic infrastructure according to the criteria of a type I urban area.

City Urban Management Department staff regularly check the quality of construction items.

With efforts to upgrade infrastructure and modernize urban areas in a synchronous and modern direction, after completing the projects, the image of a large urban area will gradually appear in the city and move towards the common goal of completing a type I urban area in the period 2025 - 2030.

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