At a recent meeting with leaders of Da Nang’s relevant agencies and departments, the municipal People’s Committee Chairman, Mr Van Huu Chien, said that the focus should be on speeding up the collection of corporate, income, housing and land use taxes.  They were asked to widely publicise to local residents the city’s preferential policy for early repayments.

To deal with the increase in road traffic accidents across the city, Chairman Chien instructed the Department of Transport to work closely with the local police to encourage local road users to use the correct lanes in order to reduce the number of fatal traffic accidents.

An overview of the meeting

The Department was also asked to prepare well for the ground breaking ceremony for the overpass at the Hue T-junction, as well as to definitively deal with 10 hotspots for unlicensed coaches and coach stations in the 3^rd quarter of this year.

In addition, some reports on local economic developments in August were presented at the meeting.  The local industrial development index this month is likely to rise by 0.28% month-on-month.  In particular, the mining industry is expected to show an increase of 7.9%, whilst electricity production and distribution will have gone up by 7.4%.  The total value of retail sales of goods and services is expected to have increased by 16% year-on-year to an estimated 5,292 billion VND by later this month.  The total turnover of goods for export is predicted to reach 88 million USD, whilst revenue from goods and passenger transport services is expected to gain an estimated 420 billion VND.