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Visitors to the Book Street in downtown Hanoi
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The capital city has selected 10 of
its outstanding events last year as follows:
1. Reviewing the five-year implementation of the 11th-tenure Politburo’s
Resolution 11-NQ/TW on plans and tasks for developing the capital city between
2011 and 2020
The Politburo recognized Hanoi’s efforts and
attainments in the resolution’s implementation. While local economic growth was
1.5 times faster than the national average, per capita gross regional domestic
product in 2016 was 1.7 times higher than in 2011.
2. Actively implementing the Politburo’s Resolution 30 and the
Resolution of the sixth meeting of the 12th-tenure Party Central Committee on
apparatus organization, personnel downsizing and restructuring of officials and
public employees.
3. Achieving all 20 socio-economic targets for 2017, seven of which were
surpassed
Hanoi recorded gross domestic product
growth of 7.3 percent - a seven-year high, and export revenue of USD 11.8 billion, up 10.3 percent from 2016. It collected VND 208 trillion (USD 9.17 billion) for the state budget, rising by 1.6 percent from the targeted revenue and
16 percent from the previous year.
4. Tourism develops strongly, turning Hanoi into the world’s top 10 cities with
fastest tourism growth
The capital city welcomed about
23.83 million tourists, including 4.95 million foreigners, in 2017. The tourist
numbers respectively increased by 9 percent and 23 percent. Local tourism
revenue was estimated at VND 70.96 trillion (over USD 3.1 billion), up 15
percent year on year.
Some prestigious websites like
Business Insider, Discovery, CNN and TripAdvisor gave Hanoi
third place among the 20 top destinations and listed the capital of Vietnam
among the world’s top 10 cities with fastest tourism growth and most attractive
destinations.
5. Breakthroughs in administrative reforms, investment climate
improvement, and start-up ecosystem development
Hanoi climbed six places in the Public
Administration Reform Index (PAR Index) to third nationwide. Its Provincial
Competitiveness Index (PCI) rose by 10 places to 14th position among the 63
provinces and cities of Vietnam.
While carrying out solutions to
support start-ups, Hanoi
remained an attractive investment destination, with more than USD
3.4 billion in FDI capital poured into the city in 2017.
6. Leading in new-style rural area building and poverty elimination
Thirty communes in Hanoi were recognized as new-style rural
areas in 2017, raising the total to 285, or 73.8 percent of the city’s 386
communes. The city now has four new-style rural districts (Dan Phuong, Dong
Anh, Thanh Tri, Hoai Duc) after two districts gained the title last year.
The local household poverty rate
also fell 0.68 percent from the previous year to 1.69 percent according to the
city’s poverty line.
7. Support for house construction and repair for revolutionary
contributors
The city provided VND
955 billion (USD 42.1 million) for house building and repair for 8,211 revolutionary
contributors’ families.
8. Education-training and sports-physical training received more
attention
Hanoi had 108 new national-standard
schools recognized, raising the number of public schools meeting national
standards to 1,313. It also led in national competitions for excellent students
with 146 prizes, including 11 first-place prizes. At regional and international
Olympiads, local students won 138 medals, including 39 gold medals.
Hanoi athletes pocketed 2,063 medals last
year, 453 of which were obtained in international competition.
9. Celebrating the 45th anniversary of the “Hanoi
- Dien Bien Phu in the air” victory (December
1972)
10. Publishing the encyclopedia of Hanoi’s
expansion period
The 14-volume encyclopedia covers
multiple sectors of the city’s expanded region, which consisted of former Ha
Tay province, former Me Linh district of Vinh Phuc province and four former
communes of Luong Son district, Hoa Binh province.
Source: VNA