Patriotic emulation – The driving force for comprehensive development of Ho Chi Minh City

With high political determination and consensus of the entire system, Ho Chi Minh City has widely deployed patriotic emulation movements, creating strong momentum for socio-economic development, building civilized and modern urban areas, and improving people's lives.

Ho Chi Minh City has widely implemented patriotic emulation movements, creating strong momentum for socio -economic development.

After the administrative unit arrangement, Ho Chi Minh City has 168 commune-level units, a population of nearly 14 million people, and a labor force of about 7.4 million people. The city's economy continues to maintain its leading role, with GRDP per capita reaching 8,258 USD, 1.7 times higher than the general level; GRDP scale is estimated at 2,971 trillion VND, accounting for 23.7% of the country's GDP. Budget revenue is 737 trillion VND, equivalent to 33.4% of the total national revenue, continuing to affirm its position as the largest economic center in the country.

The city focuses on infrastructure investment, improving the living environment and developing modern urban areas. Many key projects are competing to speed up progress; flooding and traffic congestion are reduced; 100% of households are provided with clean water. The infrastructure system of transportation, water supply and drainage, electricity, telecommunications and environment is gradually synchronized, creating positive changes in urban management and people's quality of life.

In the cultural and social fields, the emulation movements “Teach well, study well”, “Build friendly schools, active students” and the campaign “Studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality and style” have spread strongly, contributing to improving the quality of education , consolidating discipline and creating a healthy pedagogical environment. People’s health care has been invested synchronously, many specialized hospitals, private and foreign-invested medical facilities have come into operation, meeting the needs of medical examination and treatment.

Students in Ho Chi Minh City at the opening ceremony of the new school year

Science, technology and innovation activities have become key driving forces. The city has issued many policies to support startups, develop the Eastern creative urban area, build e-government architecture and promote comprehensive digital transformation, towards a digital government model, smart city, serving people and businesses more effectively. Along with that, social security work is focused, the movements of "Repaying gratitude", "Drinking water, remembering its source", "Sustainable poverty reduction" are maintained, contributing to narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas, improving people's lives.

Entering a new phase, Ho Chi Minh City has identified emulation and reward work as one of the key solutions to arouse the strength of the entire people, create a new momentum for action, and contribute to the successful implementation of development goals. The focus is on strengthening the leadership role of Party committees, assigning leaders to take direct responsibility for the results of the movement; concretizing the Central Government's policies in accordance with the city's characteristics, creating a synchronous and unified legal corridor in the entire political system.

Ho Chi Minh City continues to launch movements "Synchronous digital transformation in administrative agencies"

The city continues to launch movements such as "Creative labor, overcoming difficulties", "For national security", "Synchronous digital transformation in administrative agencies", associated with major programs such as building a regional financial center, developing smart green urban areas and improving people's quality of life. The creative emulation movement and the Ho Chi Minh City Creative Awards continue to be implemented substantially, creating an environment for useful ideas and initiatives to contribute to the common development.

Administrative reform is considered a breakthrough, with the motto "People know, people discuss, people do, people check", digitizing all emulation and reward data to ensure transparency, connectivity and better service. Rewards will be innovated in a timely, public, right-to-the-person, right-to-the-job direction, prioritizing direct workers, individuals with effective initiatives in public service and social life. The Fatherland Front and organizations will strengthen their role in monitoring, criticizing, discovering and replicating advanced examples, new models, and creative ways of doing things.

With the spirit of "Emulation is patriotism, patriotism requires emulation", Ho Chi Minh City enters the 2025-2030 period with new determination and new spirit, turning the patriotic emulation movement into a sustainable driving force, contributing to building a comprehensively developed city, worthy of being the leading economic, financial, scientific and cultural center in Southeast Asia.

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