As international tourism has not been resumed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, domestic tourism promotion is considered as the sole solution to gradually recover the tourism industry at the moment, said director of HCMC Department of Tourism Bui Ta Hoang Vu in Can Tho City on July 4.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc presided at a conference with eight provinces and city in the southern key economic zone including Dong Nai, Binh Duong, Tay Ninh, Binh Phuoc, Tien Giang, Long An, Ba Ria-Vung Tau and HCMC on missions and solutions to clear difficulties, attract investment and boost socioeconomic development on May 30.

An economic recovery program for post-COVID-19 Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) was proposed during an online seminar by Dr. Tran Du Lich, member of the Government's Economic Advisory Group, and earned the agreement of Nguyen Thanh Phong, member of the Party Central Committee and chairman of HCMC People's Committee.

Businesses in HCMC are allowed normal operation as long as they have an effective safety plan against Covid-19 for their employees in compliance with Direction No.16/CT-TTg and orders for pandemic prevention by the Ministry of Health, said Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong yesterday in his Covid-19 inspection tour to large corporations in the city.

Chairman of HCMC People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong required the Department of Health to calculate demand and prevent no shortage of materials to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic including protective gear such as masks, gowns and antiseptic equipment.

HCMC People’s Committee on October 17 organized a symposium to review investment and export in the city in the phase of 2000-2019, analyze export status for the last 20 years and discuss orientation in the new phase.

Chairman of HCMC People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has sent an urgent dispatch to the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Planning and Investment on capital adjustment for the first and second metro lines, Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien and Ben Thanh-Tham Luong, announced the committee’s office yesterday afternoon.

The Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) People’s Committee and the World Bank today co-organized the conference ‘International and Domestic Experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and Application – Recommendations for HCMC’, aiming at establishing an AI implementation ecosystem from 2019 – 2025 and forming feasible solutions for AI development programs in the city until 2020.

 Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has expressed his hope that the city and Japan’s Nagano prefecture will have more specific cooperation programmes in the time ahead. 

Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan yesterday said that the low level of residential satisfation in the administrative procedure relating to permission for land use, construction and investment in the first half of 2019 prompted relevant sides to analyze the problem in order to improve the rate in the second half.