PM approves project on smart sustainable city development

The project aims towards facilitating green growth and sustainable development, tapping into potential and advantages, enhancing the efficiency of the use of resources, minimizing potential risks, improving the efficiency of state management and urban services, and strengthening competitiveness of the economy and international integration.

Until 2020, the project will work to build a legal base for smart sustainable city development, issue policies and mechanisms applied to the regions subject to pilot implementation, build and pilot the application of the ICT framework on smart city development, develop the GIS-based urban space data infrastructure, and build the national city database (first phase).

By 2025, the first phase of the pilot implementation of smart city development will be carried out, focusing on building and finalizing legal corridors and regulations, applying the ICT spatial framework to smart city development in Viet Nam, announcing national standards prioritized for the pilot building of smart cities, and developing the urban space data infrastructure.

The first-phase pilot is expected to be completed by 2030, towards the reduplication by fields and regions, thus forming a network of smart cities nationwide.

By Vien Nhu