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

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