Basic foundation
Currently, Binh Duong is implementing a provincial planning project, which will integrate the contents of smart urban development. It is expected that after the project is approved, Binh Duong will develop and adjust the urban construction planning projects associated with the approved smart city construction project. Over the past years, the planning, project formulation and investment in the construction of inter-regional traffic works such as Highway 13, DT741, DT744, My Phuoc - Tan Van, road construction works and bridge Binh Duong and Tay Ninh, the main East-West main road (section from National Highway 1A to the border with National Highway 1K)... ensure synchronous traffic infrastructure connection between Binh Duong and other provinces in the Southern key economic region, serving local socio-economic development.
In the field of transport, Binh Duong has deployed the Becamex Tokyu bus system using clean fuel (CNG gas); automatic non-stop toll collection on Highway 13. Binh Duong has also established a Project for Transport Infrastructure Development and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) for the new city of Binh Duong - Suoi Tien. This BRT route will connect the urban areas of Di An, Thuan An, Thu Dau Mot, Binh Duong new city with Ho Chi Minh City, contributing to increasing the number of people using Metro Line 1 (Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien), promoting the use of public transport and is the basis to extend Metro Line 1 towards Binh Duong.
Building a smart city in the new era,
Binh Duong focuses on implementing planning and developing smart urban
infrastructure, creating a driving force for the strong development of
the province. In the photo: My Phuoc - Tan Van street, one of the
arterial roads in Binh Duong
Particular, in 2019, in Binh Duong New City, the complex of the complex project met the criteria to join the World Trade Center Association, recognized as the World Trade Center of the new city. Binh Duong (WTC BDNC). This is a strategic turning point, creating a basis for a breakthrough in the province's international trade and service. The Center has been step by step planned in the Smart City Project, will strongly contribute to the building of a great and prestigious brand name of Binh Duong, as an iconic project, increasing value for the area, becoming a service center that integrates global trade, attracts partners, investors, and intellectual human resources, facilitating the formation of an international trade ecosystem, connecting trade in the whole region. In 2020, the Provincial Party Committee agreed to approve the Project "Binh Duong Innovation Zone" reported and proposed by Becamex IDC Corporation. The Innovation Zone is expanded from the Smart Zone planned in the Smart City Project 2016-2020, the focus of the Binh Duong Smart City Project in the next phase.
New breakthrough strategy
The smart city project for the period 2021 - 2025 is being formed, offering a new breakthrough strategy, in particular planning the Innovation Zone with many specific projects such as Science - Technology Industrial Park, WTC BDNC.
In the period of 2021-2025, Binh Duong province has clearly determined that the Smart City Project will be specially invested and developed, a spearhead for breakthrough international reach. Binh Duong will focus resources, add and update new strategies, plan the Innovation Zone, develop the Smart City Project in the new era. Accordingly, the province continues to strongly implement the industrial development orientation of the North, promote good conditions to build new infrastructure to meet the requirements of high quality, and at the same time improve and upgrade urban services in the South, in which a new city with synchronous modern planning is the center of the province.
Dr. Nguyen Viet Long, Acting Director of the Department of Science and Technology, Director of Binh Duong Smart City Office, said: "Transport - logistics is a prerequisite for the province to develop in the new period. . In particular, to focus on building the railway and river infrastructure system and upgrading the road infrastructure system in association with smart logistics. This is one of the most important keys in regional linkage, typically the Southern key economic region, in order to reduce road traffic pressure, reduce production costs and transit time ". According to Mr. Long, right in 2021, Binh Duong will focus on investing in building smart transport infrastructure and smart logistics. Currently, the province is directing the research on logistics development strategy in Binh Duong in the new phase, coordinating with enterprises, organizations, Vietnam Logistics Research and Development Institute to deploy and implement.
In addition, Binh Duong applies the TOD model - urban development in the direction of relying on public transport hubs, in order to develop urban chains associated with the construction of BRT routes, traffic connecting the region. Continue to strengthen the road traffic system, develop solutions to manage and upgrade existing roads to deal with traffic congestion. At the same time, the province continues to invest in the construction of north-south, east-west axes, to complete ring roads, main trunk roads of Binh Duong to connect intra-provincial and inter-provincial traffic. In addition, the province focuses on investment in building high-quality infrastructure, telecommunications, information technology, digital - broadband.