The meeting was attended by Deputy Prime Ministers Tran Hong Ha, Le Thanh Long, Bui Thanh Son, Ho Duc Phoc, Mai Van Chinh, Pham Thi Thanh Tra, and Ho Quoc Dung, alongside leaders of ministries, central agencies, and the Hanoi People’s Committee.

The Red River landscape boulevard is one of five strategic axes outlined in the capital's master planning. The project covers a study area of approximately 11,000 hectares, extending over 40 kilometers along the Red River and passing through 16 wards and communes within Ring Road 4, impacting around 40,000 residents.

Hanoi’s draft planning includes around eight landscape parks and twelve specialized parks, covering over 3,000 hectares.

The boulevard is expected to serve four major goals: reducing traffic congestion, minimizing environmental pollution, improving urban aesthetics, and resolving flooding in the inner city. Upon completion, the project will also connect all bridges crossing the Red River.

With a target completion date of 2030, Hanoi has proposed special mechanisms related to planning, investment, land management, site clearance, and resettlement.

As for the Olympic sports urban area, Hanoi has approved planning tasks for two subzones, C and D, with a total area exceeding 8,200 hectares.

Subzone C spans about 4,500 hectares and includes Ngoc Hoi, Nam Phu, Hong Van, Chuong Duong, Thuong Phuc, and Thuong Tin communes. Subzone D covers more than 3,700 hectares across Thanh Oai, Tam Hung, and Dan Hoa communes.

Both subzones are being planned for functions such as sports land, residential areas, mixed-use zones, public services, schools, green space, technical infrastructure, heritage and religious sites, security and defense land, and agricultural production areas.

“A modern, green, beautiful capital city of international caliber”

Concluding the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated that the Standing Committee agrees in principle with the project. These are major developments that will help build a "bright, green, clean, beautiful" Hanoi with modern international stature.

He urged Hanoi and relevant ministries to complete the proposal and report to the Government Party Committee and the Government for submission to the Politburo.

The Prime Minister requested that any mechanisms already covered by the Capital Law should not be repeated in the proposal. Hanoi should instead identify and justify any missing policies and refrain from submitting items already under its or the Government’s jurisdiction.

He assigned Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha to work with ministries and Hanoi to draft the submission to the Politburo. Once the Politburo provides guidance, ministries and Hanoi should proceed within their authority and responsibilities.

Prime Minister Chinh instructed Hanoi to review the overall and detailed planning based on the vision of building a capital that is culturally rich, civilized, green, clean, beautiful, and globally competitive.

He emphasized effective use of all spatial dimensions - water, surface, underground, and even aerospace - as part of Hanoi’s future development.

The Prime Minister noted that issues such as dike management, mineral resources, and environmental impact assessments are concrete matters that Hanoi must finalize in accordance with regulations.

He also stressed that Hanoi must make every effort to start construction of both the Red River boulevard and the Olympic urban area on December 19, 2025, to generate momentum and mark a strong beginning for a new development era.

Later, as Secretary of the Government Party Committee, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired another meeting to discuss submitting a resolution to the National Assembly on special mechanisms for investment in the North-South high-speed railway.

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