HO CHI MINH CITY, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City is calling for private entities to invest billions of U.S. dollars in environment-related projects, especially waste treatment, by 2020.
To reduce environmental pollution, Ho Chi Minh City will implement 54 projects totaling nearly 64.2 trillion Vietnamese dong (nearly 2.9 billion U.S. dollars) from now to 2020, the municipal authorities said Monday.
Most of the money, nearly 51.3 trillion Vietnamese dong (2.3 billion U.S. dollars), expected to come from public-private partnership, official development assistance and other sources, will be poured into collecting and treating wastewater and dredging canals in the city.
The city is calling for private investment of some 2 trillion Vietnamese dong (89.7 million U.S. dollars) in building a solid waste treatment plant with a daily capacity of 1,000-2,000 tons, and a similar amount of money to construct a system collecting and transporting solid waste in the 2018-2020 period.
