Reporter Hoang Hiep from the DA NANG Newspaper recently interviewed the Hai Chau District People’s Committee Chairman, Mr Le Anh, to hear about the district’s plans for refurbishing the pavements of major streets in the district.

A deteriorated pavement section along Hoang Dieu

The upgrade is in preparation for the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Economic Leaders’ Week in November, and it will also help to enhance the living and business conditions of the local residents with a vision towards building a civilised and modern urban area.

Chairman Anh remarked that one of the district’s key tasks for the 2015 – 2020 period is to deploy some urban refurbishment projects on a trial basis, with a focus on ensuring traffic safety, environmental sanitation, firefighting and fire prevention, and expanding the alleys.   Furthermore, taking advantage of the domestic and FDI technical infrastructure projects across the city, the district’s authorities are developing plans to improve its urban transport system and developing specialised shopping areas along major streets to accelerate the growth of local tourism services.

Chairman Anh said that some of the district’s pavements have not been adequately maintained for up to 30 years, and they are now badly deteriorated.  In the current context of State budget spending cuts, the district authorities are appealing for donations from local residents living on these streets to refurbish their pavements.  Encouragingly, during his meeting with the district authorities on the 1^st day of Tet, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc expressed his appreciation of this initiative.

The district authorities have recently met with local residents to discuss ideas for implementing the pavement refurbishments.  Work will soon start on the upgrade of pavements in all such main streets as Hung Vuong, Phan Chau Trinh and Hoang Dieu.  The residents will determine which types of tiles are to be laid on the pavements and how the kerbs are to be built.  Under this project, importance will be attached to moving the present overhead power and communications supplies underground, and removing any unused overhead cables which affect the aesthetics of the local urban landscape.

Chairman Anh happily said that the district authorities have made great efforts to encourage local residents to voluntarily donate money to the deployment of the refurbishment project. 

He believes that the project will be successful, thereby making an outstanding change in the district’s urban face and bolstering its economic progress, especially for its trade and services sectors.