Overview of Can Tho city

Can Tho is a city directly under the Central Government, located in the center of the Mekong Delta. Originally known as Tay Do - the capital of the Southwest region from more than hundred years ago, Can Tho has now become a first-class city directly under the Central Government and is one of the four provinces in the region's key economic region. Mekong Delta and is the fourth key economic region of Vietnam.
Can Tho is aiming to become a city of the plain at the national level, civilized, modern, green, clean and beautiful, an industrial center, a trade-service center, a center for education and training study technology, health center and regional culture.

I. NATURAL CONDITIONS
Location: TP. Can Tho is located in the heart of the Mekong Delta region, away from the city. Ho Chi Minh City 170km to the northeast (along National Highway 1A), 60 to 120 km from major cities in the Mekong Delta, keeping an important traffic hub of river, road, sea and road aviation, in the future to be highways and railways, to trade throughout the region, domestically and internationally; Dong Nai and Vinh Long provinces in the east, Kien Giang province in the west, Hau Giang province in the south, An Giang province in the north.
Area: 1,389.60 km²
Climate: Can Tho is located in a tropical monsoon climate region with two distinct seasons: the rainy season from May to November and the dry season from December to April next year. The average humidity is 83%, the average rainfall is 1,635mm, the average temperature is 27 ° C.

Terrain: TP.Can Tho is located in a semi-open flood plain, with a lower direction from the northeast to the southwest, including three types of terrain: natural dike along the Hau River (forming a high strip of land and islets along the Hau River); semi-open floodplains (in the Long Xuyen Quadrangle area, directly affected by annual floods); delta (main tidal influence along with some interaction effects of late flood).
Administrative organization: City. Can Tho is divided into 9 administrative units, including 5 districts (Ninh Kieu, Binh Thuy, Cai Rang, O Mon, Thot Not) and 4 districts: Phong Dien, Co Do, Thoi Lai and Vinh Thanh with the total number of towns, 85 communes, wards, including 5 towns, 44 wards and 36 communes (Calculated by the time the Decree No. 12 / ND-CP was issued).
Population: 1,237 million people (2014)

- Peat: At a depth of 0.5 - 1.0m, reserves of about 30,000 - 50,000 tons, concentrated in O Mon and Thot Not districts, currently unexploited.
- Clay: 3 locations with good clay reserve of about 16.8 million m3 for making bricks and tiles, popularly yellow gray clay layer with a surface surface of 1-2m thick, scatteredly distributed everywhere. Particularly in O Mon and Can Tho rivers, the clay is pale yellow, patchy greenish gray when hard, dry, about 2m thick, millions of tons of reserves.
- Leveling sand: Concentrated in Hau river area and the section from Thot Not district to Phung Hiep with reserves of about 30 million m³.

Travel resources
- Nature tourism: With a system of rivers and canals, fruit orchards, busy markets on the river (Cai Rang floating market, Phong Dien floating market) ... representing the sweet alluvial ecology , a typical ecological region of Mekong Delta, TP. Can Tho has many places with potential for eco-tourism development such as: Cai Khe islet, Khuong islet, Au islet, Son islet, Tan Loc islet, Bang Lang stork garden, Thoi Nhut flower village ...
- Humanistic tourism: In the city area. Can Tho has many famous historical sites and cultural constructions such as Uncle Ho monument, City museum, Military zone 9 museum, Binh Thuy communal house, Ninh Kieu wharf, Nam Nha Duong pagoda ...

III. INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM
City infrastructure. Can Tho develops rapidly along with the process of urbanization, many large-scale and high-quality projects are put into use such as Can Tho bridge, Can Tho airport, Can Tho airport, Cai Cui port; residential areas, resettlement areas, new urban areas, working offices of political, administrative, police, military agencies of all levels, urban infrastructure works are formed, contributing to the exchange. New look of the city.
Traffic
- Road transport system: The whole city has 2,762,84km of roads, the density of 2.3km / km² (if excluding commune roads, the whole city has 698,548km of roads, the density of 0.5km / km²); including 123,715km of national highway; 183.85km of provincial roads; 332.87 km of district roads; 153.33 km of urban roads; 1,969,075 km of hamlets, communes and neighborhoods. With 3.98% hot concrete road surface, 26.26% asphalt, 27.74% paved with stone, 17.44% graded, the rest is dirt road mostly used for pedestrians and 2-wheel vehicles with tissue and small load.

- System of traffic works: Can Tho Bridge spanning Hau River was completed and put into use on April 24, 2010. In addition, Can Tho's port system is being upgraded, including: port Can Tho (Hoang Dieu Port) can accommodate ships with a tonnage of 10,000-20,000 DWT; Tra Noc port has 3 large warehouses with a capacity of 40,000 tons, the volume of goods through the port can reach 200,000 tons / year can accommodate ships of 2,500 DWT. Especially, Cai Cui port is a newly built port that can serve ships of from 10,000 to 20,000 DWT, can receive ships of 20,000 DWT, the volume of cargo through the port is 4.2 million tons / year. , completed Phase I works in April 2006; Investment phase II is being implemented. After completing the project of dredging and building dike system at Quan Chanh Bo estuary, Cai Cui port will be an international seaport in Ho Chi Minh City. Can Tho.

Communications :
+ Post service: Mainly operated by one state-owned enterprise and more than 24 private enterprises in the area with a stable system with 35 post offices, 48 ​​communal cultural post offices and 216 post and agents. delivery transactions.
+ Telecommunications network: Modernized, synchronous quality, many types of modern services deployed, service quality to meet the needs of socio-economic development and communication of the region. Currently, there are 6 enterprises participating in the field of telecommunication and Internet. The information technology industry has made new changes, applying information technology in handling jobs in the direction of digitization, currently there are about 150 enterprises operating; Software technology and digital content are operating 5 businesses.

Electricity:
TP. Can Tho is supplied with electricity from two main sources: the national grid system through the 220 KV line of Cai Lay-Tra Noc and Cai Lay-Rach Gia and the on-site power source of the Tra Noc Thermal Power Plant under central management.
The national grid and the Tra Noc Thermal Power Plant provide electricity to the whole city through the 110 KV line and transformer stations of Can Tho, Thot Not, Can Tho industrial park, Southern Radio, Binh Thuy, Long Hoa The province has 1,665 distribution stations with a total capacity of 282,695 KVA; Low voltage grid has a total length of 1,712 km.
In addition to the above supply, the city is allowed by the Prime Minister to build the O Mon Power Center project with a total capacity of 4 2,700MW plants, including: O Mon 1: 600MW, O Mon 2: 720MW ; FO / gas power plant 660MW and O Mon 4: 720MW is expected to complete all 4 plants in 2013. In particular, unit 1 - O Mon I plant was put into operation in 2009.

IV. POTENTIAL, THE POWER OF CAN THO
1. Industry
Industry is an important strength of Can Tho city, which is being developed with a variety of industries and products. The city's key industries are: food processing - food, seafood, medicine, mechanics, garment, construction materials ...
In the field of industrial production, Can Tho city prioritizes cooperation in the development of industries: agricultural and aquatic product processing industry; mechanical engineering, metal processing industry: shipbuilding, automobile manufacturing and assembly, manufacture of complete equipment, agricultural machinery and equipment, mechatronics, parts manufacturing, machine details ...; chemical industry including basic chemicals, fertilizers and petrochemicals, gas, pharmaceutical chemicals, cosmetics; plastic industry (household plastic, packaging, bottles, tubes, engineering plastics ...); electronics, telecommunications, information technology, software industry, digital content industry; energy industry, new energy, renewable energy; supporting industries ...
With these strengths, Can Tho is striving to become an industrial city before 2020.

2. Trade
With its position as the center of the Mekong Delta region, Can Tho is a place to concentrate processing materials, transshipment, purchase and sale of goods, provide trade services for the region and provinces throughout the country to carry out Trade with countries around the world. Enterprises of Can Tho city have import-export relations with more than 97 countries and territories, of which exports to Asian markets account for more than 50%; African market 26%, American market about 11%, EU about 10%, Australia 3% of total export turnover of Can Tho city.
The city currently has more than 10 key export items that are competitive in the market, including: rice, seafood, garments, handicrafts, salted eggs, shoes, sandals, leather, feathers. , iron and steel, wire nails ... Of which, two key items, accounting for a high proportion of the total export turnover of the city are: rice (in 2013 exported 900,000 tons, worth more than US $ 464.8 million). and aquatic products (exported 163,000 tons in 2013, worth 432.5 million USD).
Up to the present time, Can Tho has 102 markets distributed throughout the locality; 11 supermarkets are operating effectively, attracting quite a lot of customers inside and outside the city to visit and shop; A wholesale regional rice specialized market invested by the Southern Food Corporation in Thot Not district.

3. Tourism
TP. Can Tho develops tourism based on its potentials and advantages. Types of tourism are focused on developing in Can Tho such as:
- River water eco-tourism through organizing tours to visit Cai Rang floating market, Phong Dien floating market, visit the islet fruit trees of Con Au, Con Khuong, Con Son, Con Tan Loc or cruise along the river, admire the scenery on the banks of the Hau River, enjoy the specialties of the homeland, listen to the folk songs of the Southern region or take visitors into the interlaced canal to visit the orchard.
- Garden tourism with Bang Lang stork garden and a system of points, garden tourism areas with diverse types and tourist services such as homestay, working as a farmer, learning wet rice civilization, gardening hard labor ...
On the other hand, in recent years, Can Tho has focused on developing new types of tourism such as traditional culture; tourism associated with conferences, seminars, awards, exhibitions ... Besides, the cuisine of Can Tho is very rich with the characteristics of the Southern region, a cultural feature that many visitors learn, discover, in the future will be a type of tourism with development potential.

4. Agriculture
Agricultural production in Can Tho city continues to develop in the direction of focusing on specialized farming and rotation suitable to each locality, applying science and technology with effective production models associated with market demand. .
- Rice is the city's advantageous crop. The total area of ​​rice cultivation in 2013 was over 236,538 ha, the average yield reached 5.79 tons / ha, the yield reached over 1,370,354 tons, of which the percentage of high quality rice varieties reached over 80%.
- Aquaculture is a potential area of ​​the city with a farming area of ​​14,000 ha in 2013, output of 184,143 tons. In particular, the area of ​​intensive pangasius farming is 900 hectares with an output of 15,204 tons.
In addition, the activities of growing crops, raising cattle and poultry have also achieved positive results, making an important contribution to the local economic development.
In the agricultural development strategy for the period of 2011-2020, Can Tho focuses on promoting structural transformation and industrialization and modernization of agriculture towards urban agriculture, combining production with processing and meeting market demand; promote the application of biotechnology, develop high-quality seedlings and breeds to meet the demand of the region.