On April 22, the municipal People's Committee of Da Nang City held a meeting on the overall strategy of socio-economic development to 2020. Representatives of functional units, appropriate authorities, managers, scientists participating the meeting reached a consensus on the city's targets to 2020 which indicate Da Nang aims at developing tourism and hospitality services, striving for the title the "Environmental City" by 2020.
To meet the targets, the meeting agreed that the city should reduce environmental pollution; encourage non-smoking and non-sewage industries; limit enterprises to invest outside industrial zones, close to tourist or residential areas; attract clean, less-polluted projects.
However, several participants expressed their concern about the city's inappropriate management over tourist environment while boosting hospitality development. Some tourist spots lack of environment supervision.
Da Nang plans to invest 32 more tourist areas of over 2,500 hectares by 2020, which contains high risk of environment pollution. As a result, participants proposed that the overall strategy should incorporate environment conservation targets and solutions while fostering socio-economic development, which secures sustainable development.
Additionally, participants also recommended the city to improve infrastructure, hasten the "Environmental City" progress and raise the capacity of urban waste treatment systems...
Source: Da Nang Newspaper
Edited and translated by TITC