An old apartment building in HCM City’s District 4. VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Vũ HCM CITY— The HCM City People’s Committee has instructed districts to address problems and carry out measures to ensure fire prevention and safety at production establishments, apartment buildings, schools, hospitals and other buildings by October. Following the instruction, the city Police Department’s fire-fighting and rescue police division is working with agencies to check the implementation of measures in local districts. After an inspection on Monday, Colonel Huỳnh Ngọc Quan, the division’s deputy head, said that District 5 has many apartment buildings and schools built before 2001 that do not meet the criteria on fire prevention and safety and need to be upgraded. Nguyễn Xuân Trung, vice chairman of the District 5 People’s Committee, said that 55 per cent of all production establishments, apartment buildings, hospitals and schools in the district were built before 1975. Many of them have a high risk of fire, but the district faces a shortage of capital to upgrade them, he said. The district People’s Committee said it would not be able to repair and upgrade firefighting equipment as required by the city committee, and could only upgrade several apartment buildings and production establishments first. Quan said that the district committee should set up a steering board to address this problem and try to finish the work per the city committee’s requirement. People living in these apartment buildings should be provided firefighting devices to resolve sudden fires, Quan said, adding that they also should be educated about fire prevention and fighting measures. Since 2016, the city has carried out the upgrading or rebuilding of old apartment buildings. Under the programme, 199 old buildings have been repaired, according to the city Department of Construction. Two old buildings with 876 apartments in districts 3 and 10 were rebuilt. …
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Hanoi’s smart city project needs careful planning: Experts
The Hanoitimes - Hanoi will focus on researching, applying, and developing sustainable smart urban planning. The construction of smart cities must be conducted in a structured manner in accordance with the planning, Kinh te & Do thi quoted Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Tuong Van as saying. “The successful experience of many countries shows that building tools to manage urban development on the basis of planning and integrating these contents into the urbanization strategy should be seen as a focal issue,” Mr. Van said. Smart urban development management needs to follow a roadmap to gradually optimize urban development management, improve life quality of urban residents, and create opportunities for human development, the deputy minister emphasized. Hanoi is developing day by day. Photo: Kinhtedothi.vn According to Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Planning and Architecture Nguyen Trong Ky Anh, over the past time, huge works on urban planning appraisal have been fulfilled, but still failed to meet the progress. Mr. Ky Anh said that the above-mentioned limitation is due to insufficient application of information technology which has only helped the city monitor the quantity, status and administrative procedures of the planning projects. Given these shortcomings, more than ever, accelerating the development of smart cities and the application of new technologies in Industrial Revolution 4.0 to urban planning and management is imperative for Hanoi today. Five core solutions For setting the strategic orientations and planning vision to connect new urban areas with metropolitan areas in the context of Industry 4.0, Vice Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Nguyen Doan Toan said that the city has identified five groups of issues to be dealt with. Among them, the top priority is to promote the application of smart technology in urban development planning and management. Accordingly, the city will develop …
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Two-month industrial production up in HCM City
Illustrative photo. (Source: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - The Index of Industrial Production ( IIP ) in Ho Chi Minh City climbed 6 percent year-on-year in the first two months of 2021 despite a fall of 24.6 percent in February, according to the municipal Statistics Office. The office said the index in traditional industries fell 9.8 percent compared to the same period last year. Some saw a sharp plunge between January and February , including medicine production, water drainage and wastewater treatment, motorised vehicle production, and paper and paper product manufacturing. Several key industries, meanwhile, enjoyed a year-on-year increase in their production index, such as electronics manufacturing (32.4 percent), electrical device production (28 percent), the manufacture of products from metallic minerals (22.4 percent), chemical and chemical product manufacturing (10.8 percent), and food production and processing (9.8 percent). The Statistics Office added that last month the inventory index of the processing - manufacturing industry increased 12.3 percent year-on-year. Industries with an index higher than the sector’s average included leather and related products (up 155.4 percent), chemicals and chemical products (60.8 percent), and electrical devices (45.2 percent). The sales index of processing - manufacturing was down 25.4 percent month-on-month in February and 9 percent year-on-year. Industrial enterprises in HCM City said Vietnam is still coping with the latest outbreak of COVID-19 while countries that are important partners are also struggling with the pandemic. This has led to shortages of material supplies for production as well as poor sales in both domestic and foreign markets. In talking about market contractions, which have affected local production and business activities, Nguyen Phuong Dong, Deputy Director of the city’s Department of Industry and Trade, said authorities are working to devise new and breakthrough policies, …
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