The Resolution of the 14th National Party Congress set the target that the urbanization rate in the 2026–2030 period will exceed 50%. In order to help bring the Party’s resolution into life soon, Thai Nguyen province has been focusing on implementing many synchronous and decisive solutions, striving to raise the province’s overall urbanization rate to more than 55% by 2030.

Cities, towns, and urban areas expand and accumulate with the flow of history, driven by a capacity for breakthroughs that the countryside does not possess, asserting a sense of self among similar peers. Cities compete in development through the advantages and differences of their land-and-sky resources, through the accumulation of material assets, through the urbanisation of the population, yet the distilled product, in the end, is cultural excellence.

The 2025 Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) Global Summit opened on December 3 in Ho Chi Minh City, bringing together more than 600 urban leaders, technology experts and international investors.

A working delegation from the Ministry of Construction led by Deputy Minister Nguyen Tuong Van recently held separate bilateral talks with Chinese and Malaysian sides to bolster collaboration in construction and urban development to a deep and substantive fashion.

Minister of Construction Nguyen Thanh Nghi noted several causes of and solutions to some urban development issues while fielding questions from legislators at the National Assembly ’s ongoing fourth session in Hanoi on November 3.