Final part: Energetic and early-born urban area

Compared with Thu Dau Mot City, Thuan An Town, and Di An Town, Ben Cat Town is still an early-born area. However, the strongly development background of the locality has prompted Ben Cat Town to acceleration of development.

To fulfill criteria of type 3 urban area

In 2013, total production value of Ben Cat District was VND 58,481 billion with average income per capita of VND 40.2 million. By 2017, the economy of Ben Cat Town eyed a leap to VND 97,700 billion in 2017 with 409 investment projects of total capital of VND 2,600 billion and USD 136. 4 million; industries are accounted for 84.39%, services 11%, and agriculture 4.61% with average income per capita of VND 83 million.

Ben Cat urban area strongly developed. Photo: Xuan Thi

The success of Ben Cat Town clearly shows the dynamism and flexibility of leaders of Party committees, administrations at all levels, the business community and the townspeople. With the foresight of provincial and town leaders, Ben Cat has had many years of preparation before investing thousands of billions of VND in infrastructure, especially transportation infrastructure for future development. Thus, up to now, the arterial roads, creating forces through the town such as Highway 13, 2-9, My Phuoc - Tan Van, Ring Road 3, 4, DT744 ... are constantly upgraded. expansion and new construction. There is a comparable transport infrastructure connecting Ben Cat with large urban areas of Binh Duong and neighboring provinces, Ben Cat such as martial arts trained people to circulate meridians and soon complete the public goal of industrialization, urbanization.

Huynh Thu Lap, Vice Chairman of Ben Cat People's Committee, said that the province has completed the criteria for recognition of urban grade III right in 2018. Accordingly, the project recognized Ben Cat town is the capital type III under Resolution 1210 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly evaluated by 59 criteria and 5 criteria. As a result, Ben Cat has reached 89.55 / 100 points (while the condition is recognized type III city need only 75 points or more).

Not waiting for Ben Cat to be recognized urban type III, many enterprises have actively welcomed this opportunity many years ago, by investing in building and putting into use dozens of high-grade residential areas, medium ... to welcome the opportunity. A real estate company said the company just celebrated its 10th anniversary in Ben Cat Town. It is predicted that the industry will promote Ben Cat urban development strongly, the company was soon to invest here and take the opportunity in time. From the construction of small-scale residential areas, up to now the company has up to 6 residential high and middle level with hundreds of hectares are present throughout Ben Cat.

To date, thousands of local and foreign enterprises have invested in Ben Cat Town. The businesses here are not just individual businesses, many businesses also find opportunities to work together to develop. Typically, in 2007, SABMiller Vietnam Joint Venture Company announced the decision to establish SABMiller Vietnam Joint Venture between Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) and SABMiller Group (Germany). These two partners inaugurated the most modern brewery in Vietnam and officially came into operation in My Phuoc II Industrial Park. SABMiller Group has the advantage of technology, the partner is Vinamilk has advantages over 5,000 agents, distribution system in the country. Now, the products of this joint venture are widely consumed throughout the country and exported to other countries.

Future appearance of Ben Cat urban area

We go along the Vanh Dai 4 through Thoi Hoa Ward, around this area is quite a lot of land, a number of residential areas formed to catch the beginning. According to experts, the Vanh Dai 4 has the role of receiving and clearing the traffic flow from the Mekong Delta, facilitating the reduction of traffic and limiting the traffic congestion on the urban roads of the Ho Chi Minh City; connecting provinces in the southern key economic region and the Mekong River delta to the South East.

Van Dai 4 was constructed, converging all necessary and sufficient conditions for Binh Duong continue to outreach. According to the planning of Ben Cat Town, National Highway 13 – Vanh Dai 4 will focus on creating a land fund for housing development combining trade and services, serving the needs of people and businesses, together with that is to develop logistics services. The potential of the logistics industry in this area is huge, thanks to the advantages of Saigon River, Thi Tinh River and neighboring industrial parks such as Thanh An (Dau Tieng District), Bau Bang (Bau Bang District), businesses in Cu Chi (Ho Chi Minh City), and Tay Ninh.

According to Mr. Huynh Thu Lap, in the future, Ben Cat urban area is concentrated in 6 main areas. Specifically, the center of Ben Cat Town will develop commercial centers - services, square, conference center, culture. National Highway 13, DT748, My Phuoc - Tan Van Road is a high-rise residential, commercial-service development. The area along the road along the Saigon River, Thi Tinh River is a residential area combined with ecology, trade - high-level services. As for National Highway 13, Vanh Dai 4 will focus on creating a land fund for housing development combining trade and services, serving the needs of the community and enterprises here. Ben Cat urban area in the future is aimed at multi-functional purpose, serving the diverse classes of people.

Since the establishment of Ben Cat Town to date, 92 rural roads and urban traffic have been built. Thanks to the good work of ground clearance of construction projects, the works have been carried out on schedule, such as the project road My Phuoc - Tan Van extended (the road from DT741 to Highway 7B, Phu Thu crossroads, projects on electricity infrastructure, water supply and drainage, waste treatment and environmental protection. Particularly in the area of ​​Thoi Hoa ward, a large project People are very interested that is Thu Dau Mot University is being urgently implemented. The project is implemented on an area of ​​nearly 58 hectares, total investment of more than 4,000 billion, after completion will train more than 24,000 students per year.

Ben Cat town is not only becoming a major industrial and urban center but also a center for training high quality human resources for the province in the coming time. A generation of young people with higher levels of expertise will emerge from existing industrial and urban foundations to raise Ben Cat to a new level.

Reported by Phung Hieu – Translated by Vi Bao

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