Being accredited as grade 1 urban area under Binh Duong Province by the government in 2017 was a major milestone marking the all out development of Thu Dau Mot City, proving the strong development and outreaching of actively developing urban area.
Appearance of a civilized and modern urban area
For many people living and growing up in the land, Thu Dau Mot City has been a pride of wartime efforts and development process. For years, local Party Committee, authority and people of Thu Dau Mot City have overcome hardship to earn the today’s firm position. Thu Dau Mot City is changing day by day with wider and more modern streets.
Infrastructure and traffic system has been constructed beautifully in Thu Dau Mot City. In this photo: The upgrade of Cay Me crossroad in Tan An Ward is one of the 4 major constructions celebrating Thu Dau Mot City as a grade 1 urban area
Over the past years, the city has focused on building synchronous socio-economic infrastructure, technical infrastructure and building new public works, trade - services, tourism ..., changing the Ministry. Facilitate the attraction of investment and motivation for socio-economic development for the whole province. At present, in the area of Thu Dau Mot City, there are important works such as the provincial administrative center, the offices of the branches of banks and commercial streets ... have come into operation. Thu Dau Mot has also been developing new urban areas such as Dong Do Dai Pho, Hiep Thanh III, Phu Hoa, Binh Duong New City.
Ly Thi Cai, 76 years old, in Phu Cuong Ward, Thu Dau Mot Town, her youthful feelings, who are new to Thu Dau Mot are all happy here. country. But now, TP.HCM has been different. The city has new roads built to trade goods; The hustle and bustle of a fast-growing metropolis has made people busy; Schools, entertainment areas, shopping centers, supermarkets are growing more and more. This city really has good conditions for everyone's life.
Vu Thi Thanh Truc, director of Co.opmart, said although not born and raised in Thu Dau Mot but spent nearly 5 years working here she noticed many surprises. before the great change of the city. Thu Dau Mot is now much different from the time she arrived five years ago: more spacious, more modern; Improved infrastructure and increased purchasing power of people. This is a favorable condition for the city to attract more businesses to invest, opening up new opportunities in the future.
After 4 years to urban grade 2 (in 2014), Thu Dau Mot city has shown up the appearance of a dynamic, civilized and modern urban.
Accelerated trade and services
To make such a big change, Thu Dau Mot has exploited the existing advantages, overcome the weaknesses and difficulties, make the economy maintain the momentum of rapid and stable development, creating momentum for other fields to develop.
Only in 2017, the economy of Thu Dau Mot will continue to grow, with the trade and services sector achieving 122,878 billion VND, increasing by 32.4%; industrial production reached over 26,333 billion, up 25.9%; budget revenue is over 3,799 billion, reaching 159.02% compared to the target of the province and 152.15% compared with the Resolution of the City People's Council. Economic development in 2017 is a continuation of the 3-year period (2014-2016); The average economic growth rate of this period was 26.6% per annum.
Since 2014, after the workers are urban type II, thanks to focus on bringing into full play the potential and advantages available in the past years, trade and service network of Thu Dau Mot City developed on all levels. Especially in areas such as finance and credit, banking, real estate, logistics, transportation and information technology, supermarkets, trade centers have been developed, markets have been upgraded, transport services have been diversified ... in line with the development of the society. Up to now, the city has 4 trade centers, 5 supermarkets and 13 active markets (including 3 urban markets and 10 market-level ones). In addition, the city has state-of-the-art non-state businesses and extends from the markets to the retail counters in the residential areas, serving the daily life of the people. In addition, the city also has many standard hotels from 1 to 5 stars with many guesthouses, guest houses, modern golf courses for the needs of relaxation, recreation and accommodation of visitors to the city.
For the industry, handicrafts and construction of the city, the annual maintenance of high growth; The handicraft villages are linked with the tourism development plan to strengthen and build the identity of Thu Dau Mot urban area. In the field of agriculture, due to the rapid urbanization, the agricultural sector of Thu Dau Mot has shifted towards reducing livestock and farming, developing high technology agriculture, and urban agriculture. Up to now, the whole city has formed and developed many models of agricultural production under the model of specialized farming such as planting vegetables, ornamental plants, safe husbandry ... in accordance with the policy of changing the structure of plants and animals. farming in the direction of urban agricultural production of the city.
It can be seen that the trade-service sector has maintained a high growth rate over the years, which has helped transform the economic structure of the city into a service-industry-agriculture shift. By 2016, the service sector will account for 60.88%, industrial 39.04% and agriculture 0.08% in the economic structure of the city. Thus, over the past time, the economic structure of the city has changed rapidly, from industry - trade, services - agriculture to services - industry - agriculture. The city has accomplished its goals over the years, meeting the expectations of the people of the city.
Reported by Thanh Hong – Translated by Vi Bao
