HCM City will try to achieve an annual industrial growth rate of 13% from now to 2010, according to a decision of the HCM City People’s Committee approving the city’s industrial restructuring program in the 2006-2010 period

HCM City has set a target of building an additional 32 million square meters of housing in the next five years to raise the per capita housing ratio from 10.3 to 14 sq. meters and the total housing area to 101.5 million sq. meters by 2010

The city is a place where the majority Kinh people, through a long period of time, have associated with and lived in harmony with many other peoples. Citizens also comprise Chinese, Cham, Khmer peoples, and members of the Tay, Muong, Nung, Thai, Meo, Han, Cao Lan, Sau Diu, Tho, and Man ethnic groups that have long been at home in Vietnam.

HCM City will upgrade the Saigon High Tech Park (SHTP) to a hi-tech foreign-invested center which is expected to generate a production value of US$4.5 billion and earn an export revenue of US$3.5 billion by 2010

Culture, architecture and food combine as attractions for residents and visitors in one of HCM City's most distinctive sections

HCM City belongs to a transitional region between the southeastern and Mekong Delta regions. The general topography is that HCM City terrain gets lower from north to south and from east to west. There are three types of terrain.

The soil of HCM City was formed upon two sediment classes: Pleixtoxen and Holoxen.

HCM City has an area of approximately 2,094 square kilometers.