Duyen Hai town, previously the capital of Duyen Hai district, includes seven communal administrative units, with two wards and five communes. The town was established on a total area of over 30,000ha and has a population of 82,393 people.
With the establishment of the new town, the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh currently covers a total area of 234,120ha and has over 1 million inhabitants throughout nine districts, towns and cities, including Tra Vinh city and Duyen Hai town, in addition to Duyen Hai, Tra Cu, Chau Thanh, Tieu Can, Cau Ke, and Cang Long districts.
Speaking at the ceremony, Chairman of Tra Vinh provincial People's Committee Dong Van Lam stressed that the establishment of the town is of importance to effectively promote and exploit national key infrastructure facilities built in the province, such as Duyen Hai Power Centre, which has a total capacity of 4,800 MW; a waterway passage for heavyweight vessels to the Hau River; the 39,000ha Dinh An economic zone; as well as to implementing the province’s maritime-based economic development strategies.
The provincial leader asked authorities of Duyen Hai to consolidate new structures to provincial management and the political system, while transforming organisational models suitable with urban administrative management and promoting local economic, social and labour restructuring.
