Ben Cat Town qualified as type-3 urban area

In recent years, with the attention, direction, investment and support of the province, together with the efforts of the Party, authorities, people and business community, the economy of Ben Cat Town has always been fast, of high growth in synchronous development infrastructure, opening up many opportunities for Ben Cat to develop.

Over the past years, the pace of urbanization, industrialization and modernization in Ben Cat Town have been rapid. Meanwhile, the economic structure of the locality has been shifted in the right direction; The total value of production has increased rapidly over the years. In 2015, the value is 68,704.8 billion Vietnam dongs, 82,327.5 Vietnam billion dongs in 2016 and 97.562,5 billion Vietnam dongs in 2017. In addition, the town has made many efforts to implement urban construction planning, contributing to create of the basis for Ben Cat type-3 urban standard before 2018.

Appearance of Ben Cat Town urban area is strongly change. In this photo: My Phuoc Ward urban area. Photo: T. Phuong

At present, 35 residential areas in Bến Cát commune with the total area of 2,783 ha are available. Most of the residential areas have been built basically to complete infrastructure and attracting many people to live in. Ben Cat also has many key projects built including the Exhibition and Conference Center, the My Phuoc General Hospital, the Ben Cat General Hospital, and the Phu Dong Kindergarten and Primary School. Along with that, restaurant and hotel services are increasingly formed, meeting the needs of local people, professionals, businessmen, and foreigners working and living there.

Ben Cat also attaches importance to implementing regulations on management of urban planning in the area and investment to fulfill urban technical infrastructure and to build roads to the center of the commune. Since the establishment of Ben Cat district, 92 rural and urban traffic roads have been built. Particularly, for the clearance work of construction projects have been accelerated by the town, such as the project of extended My Phuoc - Tan Van (from road DT741 to road 7B), the project to expand Phu Thu crossroads, projects on electricity infrastructure, water supply and drainage, waste treatment and environmental protection, etc., in order to meet the demands of production and daily life of people in the locality.

Huynh Thu Lap, Vice Chairman of Ben Cat City People's Committee, said the recognition of Ben Cat Town as type-3 urban area that is suitable for the urban development program of the province, meeting the aspirations of the Party and the people of the town. This is an opportunity for the town to continue striving to improve the urban quality in all aspects while at the same time fulfilling its role as a service-industrial and multi-functional center. Up to now, the town has achieved remarkable achievements in socio-economic development and urban development, thereby contributing to speed up the urban development of the province, as well as improving the living quality of the townspeople.

Basically, the status of Ben Cat Town has met the criteria for urban classification as stipulated in Resolution No. 1210/2016/UBTVQH13 dated 25 May 2016 of the Standing Committee of National Assembly on the classification of urban areas, with self-assessment points of 89.14 points, qualified to submit to the Ministry of Construction to appraise and recognize Ben Cat Town as type-locality belonging to Binh Duong province.

Lap affirmed that, with the objectives of making Ben Cat a sustainable urban center in the direction of industrialization and modernization, synchrony between economic and cultural development, Ben Cat town To further mobilize all domestic and foreign investment resources, and at the same time adjust the policy of attracting investment into the town according to the selective orientation and selection of priority domains to encourage investment in order to raise the quality of the line. investment. The town also strengthens the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of investment activities; using high technology, modern technology; protection of the ecological environment, research, development and incubation of high technologies; It also builds and develops infrastructure and important projects. Along with that, the town will give priority to attracting investment capital in the field of culture, education and training, trade - service and tourism in the direction of gradually increasing the proportion of this sector in the economic structure of town.

Reported by Thoai Phuong – Translated by Vi Bao