Improving Urban Planning and Architecture Quality

Construction planning plays an important role in shaping space, infrastructure and landscape architecture in urban and rural areas in Thai Nguyen province. Despite facing numerous difficulties and challenges, the construction sector of Thai Nguyen province has made great contributions to overall socioeconomic development over the past time.

Thai Nguyen is one of a few localities that have seriously and effectively implemented planning work (an important task that must go one step ahead). The Department of Construction importantly advises the Provincial People's Committee on short-term and long-term infrastructure construction and operation planning and land-use planning to create architectural aesthetic values and social and economic effects.

Given its very important role of shaping spatial development in line with the socioeconomic development strategy, construction planning must be one step ahead. Recognizing this importance and realizing the ambition of delivering socioeconomic sustainability for Thai Nguyen province, the construction sector has coordinated with localities and relevant agencies to figure out urban construction planning to lay the groundwork for infrastructure development investment for workplaces, schools and residences for workers and residents and to solve pressing social demands.

The province advocates reviewing and making the urban-industrial construction system planning. Urban construction planning is also viewed under a new approach based on the assessment of comprehensive impacts of elements in the multidimensional urban relationship. As a result, Thai Nguyen has basically met requirements for local investment attraction and socioeconomic development.

As a province lying in the greater Hanoi region, the development cooperation among provinces and cities in the northern key economic region and other localities in the country is an objective requirement in order to better exploit potential strengths and promote local and national industrialization and modernization. Therefore, over the past years, Thai Nguyen province has constantly directed agencies in local construction planning to match the greater Hanoi planning, especially in infrastructure connectivity in the Hanoi - Thai Nguyen boundary, for joint development.

In recent years, under the close leadership of the Party and the Government, together with other localities throughout the country, the Thai Nguyen Department of Construction has taken strong actions to improve the effect of State management of local construction. In addition to human resources development, the department has focused on improving State management according to the tasks assigned to it by the Provincial People's Committee and the Ministry of Construction. In particular, the department has advised the Provincial People's Committee to issue many legal documents, concretize governmental decrees and ministerial circulars on planning management, construction investment and construction quality management, urban management, housing, urban infrastructure and construction materials management.

To implement the Resolution of the 20th Provincial Party Congress on developing industry into an economic foundation and an economic spearhead, the construction sector of Thai Nguyen province has actively studied, surveyed, designed and planned construction of industrial parks to facilitate investment attraction into the province.

Mr. Hoang Duc Khanh, Director of the Thai Nguyen Construction Department, said, “Improving the quality of urban planning and development is a cross-cutting task of the construction sector. We have actively advised and implemented directions of the Provincial People's Committee, closely coordinated with localities to carry out urban and residential zone planning for districts and towns to mobilize investment resources for infrastructure construction to serve local and provincial socioeconomic development. At the same time, the sector has strictly issued construction permits, based on approved planning, particularly in Thai Nguyen City and district centers. The department has also coordinated with district governments to strengthen construction management according to plans specified by competent authorities.”

Source: Vietnam Business Forum