Urban upgrades drive the development

The Standing Committee of the National Assembly has just passed a resolution to establish An Dien, An Tay wards and Ben Cat city which is identified as having a favorable position for developing infrastructure, industrial zones, urban areas, serving as a hub connecting the urban area in the South with the Northern localities of the province.

Synchronized and progressive urban infratructure of Ben Cat is on the move. Photo: Q. Chien

Core connectivity

While industrial zones, clusters, and urban areas in the southern part of the province such as Di An city, Thuan An city, and Thu Dau Mot city are currently full and becoming cramped, the province's decision to develop industrial zones, services, and urban areas in northern localities is the right and appropriate direction. Localities such as Dau Tieng, Bau Bang, Bac Tan Uyen, and Phu Giao still have a large surplus of space with many advantages to implement the above-mentioned direction in real life.

With this policy, Ben Cat town has become the core connecting localities in the southern and northern regions of the province, becoming an important area in the transshipment of goods and trade between Binh Phuoc, Tay Ninh provinces, the Central Highlands region, and Ho Chi Minh city.

Mr. Bui Minh Thanh, Secretary of the Ben Cat Party Committee, said that currently, the urban areas of Ben Cat are well planned, aiming to build a development space and improve the living quality of the people, workers, and laborers. Ben Cat has a very favorable geographical position for socio-economic development, aiming towards 2030, Ben Cat will become an industrial and service urban area. By 2040, Ben Cat will be a center of urban, service, and industrial activities, with transportation hub developing in two main directions: developing a commercial service corridor along National Highway 13 from North to South and developing commercial-service urban areas along the Belt Road 4 of Ho Chi Minh City, transportation routes in the East-West direction.

Industrial economy of Ben Cat has strongly grown through the years. In this photo: A corner of My Phuoc Industrial Park 1 is viewed. Photo: Q. Chien

“In the upcoming time, we will focus on completing the criteria for urban infrastructure development as the basis for upgrading the town to a type 2 urban area as planned. Ben Cat is currently concentrating on accelerating the progress of projects, striving to achieve the public investment targets for 2024 and the development targets set forth,” Mr. Bui Minh Thanh shared.

To construct modern and progressive urban area

It can be affirmed, with the attention of the province, in recent times the face of urban and rural Ben Cat has been constantly changing, the material and spiritual life of the people is increasingly developing clearly. Urban Ben Cat is becoming modern, civilized with technical infrastructure, transportation infrastructure, social infrastructure with cultural facilities from education, healthcare being invested synchronously, becoming a desirable place to live.

Mr. Nguyen Trong An, Chairman of the People's Committee of Ben Cat Town, shared that right after Ben Cat became the fifth city of the province and established 2 wards of An Dien and An Tay, alongside favorable conditions, there are also intertwined difficulties and challenges. Firstly, it is the transformation of the urban administrative model, followed by the work of managing social order, urban order, especially addressing the existing shortcomings and limitations that need to be focused on for resolution to meet the management requirements in the current period. “Ben Cat will concentrate resources to continue investing, renovating urban areas as well as improving new rural criteria. Creating harmonious and equitable development among regions, striving to build Ben Cat into a civilized, modern, and livable urban area,” Mr. Nguyen Trong An said.

By becoming a provincial city, it will help the locality overcome existing limitations and constraints in administrative management on the area, especially in terms of planning and organizing the implementation of plans, constructing and managing architecture, urban landscape, technical infrastructure, population, and environmental protection.

Reported by Minh Duy – Huu Tin – Translated by Vi Bao