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🔴 Quy hoạch tổng thể Thủ đô Hà Nội tầm nhìn 100 năm

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The video presents Hanoi’s overall master plan with a 100-year vision, anchored in key legal and political foundations: Hanoi’s Decision No. 2512/QĐ-UBND, the Capital City Law No. 02/2026 (16th National Assembly), and guidance from Politburo Resolution No. 02 on developing Hanoi in the new era. The plan is described as a “trio of strategic tools” (law + master plan + institutional mechanisms) to create stronger governance leverage and development breakthroughs.

1) Century-Long Development Roadmap (Targets by Period)

  • To 2035

    • GRP growth: over 11% per year
    • Economy: around US$200B
    • GDP per capita: over US$18,800

  • By 2045

    • Hanoi becomes a global innovation hub
    • Economy: around US$640B
    • Per capita income: at least US$42,000

  • By 2065

    • Hanoi ranks among major global cities
    • GRDP: around US$1,920B
    • Per capita income: over US$95,000
    • Target: among the top 10 happiest capitals

Population strategy

  • Strictly control population to no more than 20 million
  • Infrastructure is planned to support 22–25 million (leaving room for development while maintaining quality of life)

2) Four “Strategic Breakthroughs” + New Regional Spatial Structure

The plan proposes four key breakthroughs:

  1. Institutional breakthrough

    • Stronger decentralization and better coordination across the capital region.

  2. Science–technology and digital transformation

    • With Hòa Lạc Hi-Tech Park as a core.

  3. Multi-layer transportation infrastructure

    • Building connectivity at multiple levels.

  4. Ecological/river revitalization

    • Integrated multi-functional infrastructure to transform the urban ecological landscape.

Spatial shift: from single-center to multi-polar region

  • Hanoi shifts from a single-centered city model to a concentric, multi-polar, regionally connected structure.
  • Hanoi is positioned as a driver of northern regional development.
  • The subtitles describe functional roles for satellite areas in neighboring provinces, including:
    • Health/education centers
    • Industrial and semiconductor supply-chain zones
    • High-end eco-urban development
    • Medical hubs
    • Trade/tourism gateway areas
    • Automotive industry clusters
    • Cultural tourism linkages
    • Sea-access industrial support via corridor routes

Ecological buffer

  • Emphasis on a capital-region ecological buffer up to 140,000 hectares beyond administrative boundaries.

3) Restructuring the Inner Core + Multi-Layer Urban Development

The plan applies a “three-dimensional city” approach:

  • Underground space

    • Divided into four functional layers
    • Target: over 40% underground construction coverage in the central area by 2065

  • Above-ground priorities

    • Culture, public amenities, and green parks

  • Elevated space

    • Mixed-use compact complexes
    • Enabling systems for flying taxis / eVTOL and smart drones
    • Envisioned as an “automated city” supported by real-time digital platforms

Inner-city transformation initiatives

  • Pedestrian-first traffic reorganization in heritage areas (e.g., Hồ Gươm)
  • Upgrading/planning plazas
  • Preserving the soul of the Old Quarter
  • Integrating open/underground pedestrian-linked routes to cultural sites
  • Redeveloping the Old French Quarter into a global financial center
    • “Garden city” structure
    • Grade A office focus
  • Promoting West Lake as a unique landscape heritage space
  • Creating a major future urban axis along the Red River Scenic Boulevard
    • Parks and riverside financial/tourism/entertainment complexes
    • Flood control measures to ensure “absolute flood safety”

4) Transportation and Infrastructure: Rail-First “Ring-and-Radius” Network

A central claim is a historic transport breakthrough:

  • A multi-level rail network using a ring-and-radius structure
    • Total up to 1,200 km
    • Including 979 km of metro urban rail
  • Investment in five urban rail projects totaling 303.5 km
    • 273.5 km within Hanoi
  • Underground build-out for key lines/stations and major nodes
    • Including areas such as Hà Nội Station, Noi Bài, and other planned urban hubs
  • TOD (Transit-Oriented Development) approach
    • Station-centric, classified from national to regional levels
    • Mobilizes private capital and optimizes land use around major hubs (e.g., Ngọc Hồi, Hà Nội Station, Gia Lâm)

Road connectivity reinforcement

  • Completion of eight strategic ring roads
    • Inner rings: 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5
    • Coordinated with outer inter-regional rings under construction: 4, 4.5, 5
    • Goal: divert through-traffic away from the center
  • Nine pairs of radial routes plus expressways
    • Form transport/logistics corridors and enable faster movement

Water and flood resilience as infrastructure breakthroughs

  • Large-scale underground regulation systems (seven reservoirs)
  • River–lake regulating systems to eliminate localized flooding and strengthen water security/ecological space
  • Upgrading the waterway system into green corridors and logistics hubs
    • Linking to major ports via smart container port clusters
  • Continued development of inland waterway terminals for cross-river passenger movement and tourism

Air connectivity

  • Expand Noi Bài to 50 million passengers/year
  • Plan a second airport in the south (~1,500 hectares)
    • Also targeting 50 million/year
    • Described as an “airport-city” model integrating:
      • Free trade zone
      • Cold logistics
      • Industrial/rail-assembly/manufacturing facilities
  • High-speed rail and radial expressways aim to reduce travel time between airport cities and the core to about 15 minutes

5) Rural Modernization + Green Space System

Rural areas are planned for integrated commune-level development, shifting from housing-only planning to multi-functional spatial planning:

  • “Villages within cities, cities within villages”
  • Rural areas split into three strategic zones
    • Promote circular agriculture, emissions reduction, and specialized production
  • Craft villages redesigned as creative design/cultural spaces tied to the OCOP tourism chain
    • Aims to increase farmers’ control over the service value chain

Comprehensive green framework

  • Forest cover target: over 6.2% of natural area
  • “City-in-the-forest” model
  • Green belts/eco-zones/green wedges linked to major rivers (Đà/Day, Tích, Như, Long)
    • Function as ecological filters and boundaries for healthy, internationally aligned living conditions

6) Multi-Functional Ecosystems + Governance Mechanisms

To address overcrowding and improve services:

  • Build five peripheral multi-functional medical complexes
    • 50–200 hectares each
    • Integrated with elderly-care economic complexes
  • Concentrate universities into modern towns at Hòa Lạc and Xuân Mai
    • Repurpose freed land for parks and primary/secondary schools
  • Upgrade culture through:
    • Preservation of academic heritage spaces
    • Hosting international art events

Governance and operation mechanisms

  • Proposed central-government special mechanisms and deeper decentralization
  • Proactive land value capture:
    • Land auctions
    • A “clean land fund” around train stations reinvested into public infrastructure
  • Smart operation using:
    • Real-time data
    • 3D digital replicas
    • AI
  • Goal: shift from purely administrative management toward service-oriented, business-supportive governance

Presenters / Contributors (As Stated in the Subtitles)

  • Chairman of the People’s Committee of Hanoi City

    • Author of Decision No. 2512/QĐ-UBND
    • No individual name given

  • Politburo leadership

    • General Secretary and Central Committee leaders
    • No individual names given

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