Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s largest city, is prioritizing land fund solutions, capital allocation, and investment attraction to construct an additional 4,500 classrooms by 2025, aiming to achieve a ratio of 300 classrooms per 10,000 school-aged residents.
This initiative is outlined in the project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day, recently approved by the City People's Committee.
The proposed investment needs from the budget for the period of 2023-2025 encompass 277 projects totaling over VND32.2 trillion ($1.34 billion) to build 5,934 new classrooms.
In addition to public investment, the city plans 110 projects, which will build 2,638 classrooms at an estimated capital of over VND541 trillion, to be implemented through public-private partnerships (PPP).
Currently, the city has over 50,650 regular classrooms from preschool to high school, serving more than 2.1 million students. The city has achieved a ratio of 294 classrooms per 10,000 residents, albeit unevenly distributed across districts and municipalities.
According to calculations by the Department of Education and Training, the city adds 10,000-15,000 students to each grade annually. At this rate, over 8,000 new classrooms would be needed to meet the targeted ratio, the local VnExpress newswire noted.
(VnExpress English [1], VnExpress English 1 [2], Tin Tuc [3], NLD [4], NLD 1 [4], PLO [5])