Imprint of a young city

10 years after its establishment, Tan Uyen today is truly beautiful, people's quality of life has been improved, a dynamic and modern city with sustainable development. This achievement brings pride, it is the result of the intelligence and tectonic bravery of generations of officials, people, and business community in the area.

Tan Uyen urban face is increasingly civilized and modern

To develop robustly

Tan Uyen City is developing strongly, gained many important and comprehensive achievements in many fields, and is considered a region with great potential and advantages to develop into a driving economic region of Binh Duong in particular and the Southeast region in general. Currently, Tan Uyen City has 3 industrial parks (IPs), 3 industrial clusters with more than 2,000 domestic enterprises, total registered capital of more than VND34,000 billion; Nearly 650 foreign enterprises, total registered capital of more than US$5.3 billion. Tan Uyen City currently has the two largest VSIP projects in Binh Duong and the country, which are VSIP 2 with 2,045 hectares and VSIP 3 with more than 1,000 hectares.

Commerce - service is developing dynamically, many commercial centers, supermarkets, and convenience stores are opened to meet people's shopping demands. Doan Hong Tuoi, Chairman of Tan Uyen City People's Committee, said that with priority given to rapid and strong development of the trade and service industry, the city is investing in technical and social infrastructure in a modern and synchronous direction. The city's government and people constantly utilize existing advantages, maintain a stable economic growth rate, creating a foundation for the city's socio-economic development in 2024 and the following years.

Together with economic development, Tan Uyen City always focuses on ensuring social security, promptly implementing policies to care for people with meritorious services to the revolution and disadvantaged groups. In 2023, the city introduced jobs to 15,529 workers, reaching 258.8% of the resolution target, the rate of trained workers reached 89.09%, the rate of poor households decreased to 1.55% according to the province’s criteria.

Education and training sector's facilities receive good investment, and teaching staff is improving their qualifications. 100% of high school candidates passed the 2023 graduation exam. Public health care is carried out effectively, the rate of people joining health insurance reaches 91.78%. Tan Uyen City Medical Center was recognized by Provincial People's Committee as a class-two hospital, increasing its size to 200 beds, with modern techniques, especially with the opening of hemodialysis, contributing to good health care for the people of the city and surrounding areas.

Besides, the Bach Dang Pomelo Fragrance Festival has been held three times and gave good impressions to hundreds of thousands of visitors. The project to build a model new rural commune for the period 2021-2025 integrated with the pilot construction of a smart village in Bach Dang commune has initially achieved positive results, changing the face of new rural areas and improving local people's lives.

Build worthy urban areas

In recent years, Tan Uyen City has changed its urban appearance. Tan Uyen urban area today no longer has the appearance of a small agricultural land nestled next to the Dong Nai river. This land is rapidly transforming, many narrow roads in the past have now been expanded to be spacious, clean and beautiful, making travel and trade convenient for people.

Promoting advantages and exploiting potential, Tan Uyen City develops strongly. In photo: A corner of South Tan Uyen Industrial Park.

According to Tan Uyen City People's Committee, immediately after being recognized as a class-three urban area in 2018, Tan Uyen made a strong shift in urban development. Urban technical infrastructure is increasingly complete in a synchronous, civilized and modern direction. 100% of city-managed roads are asphalted. Synchronous transportation system is connected to areas inside and outside the province, including water and land transportation, port systems, warehouses...

Regional connection road projects such as Ho Chi Minh City Ring Road 3, Ho Chi Minh City Ring Road 4, Ho Chi Minh City - Chon Thanh Expressway... passing through Tan Uyen area open up more opportunities for economic connection, trade, creating momentum for new economic and social development. People's lives are being enhanced, especially those who are vulnerable and have difficult circumstances receive timely attention and care from local authorities, from which people feel more love and proud of their homeland.

Tran Thanh Giau, a resident of Thai Hoa ward, said: “Compared to 10 years ago, Tan Uyen today has changed a lot. Roads are spacious, houses are spacious, and traffic is bustling. Witnessing this change, I feel very happy and proud. I hope that in the next stage, Tan Uyen will have new achievements, so that all local people can enjoy a prosperous and happy life."

New development impulse

One year after being recognized as a city, Tan Uyen is making efforts to achieve more comprehensive development in all aspects. Currently, the city's socio-economy constantly maintains a high growth rate, people's lives are increasingly improved, and the urban appearance is civilized and modern. The government and people of this young city are utilizing existing advantages, determined to turn Tan Uyen City into a class-two urban area as soon as possible.

Tan Uyen determines the goal of building and developing the city to become a major center in southern Binh Duong province for industry, commercial services, finance, culture - tourism; a modern new urban area, meeting the socio-economic development needs of the province, attracting people from other localities to live and work here. The connecting space between Tan Uyen urban area and Binh Duong urban area as well as Ho Chi Minh City and Bien Hoa City will be connected into a large urban area in the South of the country, an important traffic hub of the province and of the whole region.

The city defines its development perspective as exploiting new advantages and potentials, mobilizing maximum resources to invest in developing socio-economic infrastructure in the direction of industrial - service - urban development. urban - urban agriculture; promote the development of trade and services, creating a foundation for Tan Uyen to become an urban service center. According to the development orientation, the city will focus on some key infrastructure projects such as Ho Chi Minh City - Chon Thanh expressway, Ring Road 4 of Ho Chi Minh City, road to Thanh Phuoc port, Bach Dang 2 bridge, expansion of DT742, DT747A roads... Exploiting public land funds to build social and technical infrastructure projects, solving social security and improving the living standards of urban residents, investing in service and public works to meet standards of class-two urban area.

 Reported by Ngoc Thanh - Translated by Ngoc Huynh