After 48 years since its liberation, especially from 1997 until now, Da Nang has experienced a rapid urban development pace. The city is aiming for 2050 to become a large, ecological, smart, sustainable city with unique identity.

Da Nang urban area has been developing strongly to the east. Photo: HOANG HIEP

Rapid urban development reaches high, reaches far

After 26 years from the day Da Nang became a centrally-run city (January 1, 1997), from a small urban space, only encapsulated within Hai Chau, Thanh Khe and a part of districts Son Tra and Ngu Hanh Son, corresponding to an area of about 5,600ha, Da Nang has developed 18,396ha of urban construction land and 8,191ha of civil land. Until now, Da Nang has about 2,600 roads that have been invested in building technical infrastructure and named.

From a ‘city without height’, Da Nang now has about 150 high-rise buildings, hotels with 15 floors or more, especially apartments and hotels with 50, 57 storeys, in which those located along the eastern bank of the Han River and the the city’s eastern part account for about two-thirds of the total number of high-rise buildings of 15 floors or more in the city, according to the National Urban Development Programme for the 2012 - 2020 period.

By 2021, the city's urbanisation rate reached 87.2%, 42.2% higher than the set target. The percentage of permanent and semi-permanent houses in the inner city hit 99.2%, 24.2% higher than the set target. The rate of domestic wastewater collected and treated was 83.5% whilst lighting rate of main street and residential area, residential area, village was100%...

Expanding urban space, aiming for special urban area

By 2030, Da Nang will have become an international, eco-urban, modern and smart, livable seaport city with the stature as the nucleus of the urban chain and the growth pole of the key economic zone of the Central Viet Nam- Central Highlands regions and reaching the Asian level.

Specifically, by 2030, the land area of the urban area will be 20,148 ha, the tourist area 4,718 ha, the commercial - service area 1,223 ha. The urbanisation rate will reach over 90%; the average residential floor area per capita in urban at least 32m²; the ratio of traffic land to urban construction land 18% by 2030 and 26% by 2050; the rate of public passenger transport by 2030 10-25%.

According to the head of the Board of Urban Affairs of the Da Nang Nanf People's Council Nguyen Thanh Tien, according to the urban development plan according to the Da Nang Master Plan towards 2030, Da Nang is confirmed to be a grade 1 urban area, at the same time striving to become a special city in the future.

In the immediate future, the city needs to focus on completing the missing criteria of a grade 1 urban area. Also in this draft planning, by 2025, Hoa Vang District will meet the criteria of a grade 4 urban area with a high urbanization rate of more than 85%, eligible to become a town.

Reporting by HOANG HIEP - Translating by A.THU