Building Smart City in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Abstract

Ho Chi Minh City is a special city with great potential and strong development ability, which is considered as the locomotive of Vietnam's economic development. During more than 45 years of construction and growth, the city has always had reasonable socio-economic development policies, making great contributions to the State budget. Facing potential and advantages, the Party and State have paid special attention and have many separate policies to promote the city's development. Within the scope of this article, we refer to Resolution No. 54/2017/QH14 of the National Assembly on piloting specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Ho Chi Minh City and the process of implementing and taking advantage of the conditions, opportunities, removing difficulties to achieve the strategic goal of becoming a modern, high-income city.