HCM City ensures social security to improve people’s living standards
VOV.VN - In 2015 Ho Chi Minh City continued to lead Vietnam in ensuring social security and caring for local poor people.
This year, in addition to specific policies supporting disadvantaged families, Ho Chi Minh City is focusing on sustainable poverty reduction until 2020.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s economic capital and the driver of the southern region’s economy, gives high priority to infrastructure construction to improve people’s living conditions.
Recent construction projects include the Phu My Bridge, the Sai Gon River tunnel, East-West Avenue, and the upgrading of the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe Canal.
To deal with city traffic, Ho Chi Minh City is accelerating its flyover project, improving the municipal bus system, and upgrading inner city traffic routes.
Du Phuoc Tan, who lives in Van Kien Street in Binh Thanh district, said, “Ho Chi Minh City has changed a lot. A number of new residential areas have been established. Residential areas are now master-planned with the Phu My Hung residential area recognized as the new urban model, boosting investment attraction and municipal growth.”
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Le Van Thanh, a resident of district 3, shared, “If we don’t have jobs, we will have no income and will become needy. Ho Chi Minh City has a low unemployment rate of a bit more than 4%. Job generation is the key to helping locals and migrant workers enjoy a better life.”
Ho Chi Minh City had an impressive achievement last year, which was to complete its poverty reduction program a year ahead of schedule. By the end of last year there were only 9,000 households with a yearly income less than US$720 – just 0.5% of the total households in Ho Chi Minh City.
To Dung in Da Kao ward in district 1 noted, “I’ve met many people in Ho Chi Minh City who are happy about the sufficiency of food and the improvements to roads, houses, and the urban landscape.”
Since 2016 the Ho Chi Minh City administration has been implementing the sustainable poverty reduction program until 2020 to help the poor access education, healthcare, employment, social insurance, housing, and information to improve their lives.
