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| Ha Noi administration has decided to stop spending its budget on trimming grass and flowers across the city, excluding several flower gardens around Hoan Kiem Lake.— Photo vietnamnet.vn |
HA NOI — Ha Noi administration has decided to stop spending its budget on trimming grass and flowers across the city, excluding several flower gardens around Hoan Kiem Lake.
The move is expected to help the city save about VND700 billion (US$31.4 million) each year, said chairman of the capital People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung when meeting voters of Hoan Kiem District on Monday.
Expenses for cutting grass and trimming flowers each year were very wasteful. For example, it costs up to VND53 billion ($2.3 million) to cut grass and hibiscus flowers along 24 kilometres of Thang Long Avenue per year.
“It is unacceptable,” he said.
Chung said the city administration had ordered all districts to not grow flowers starting from July 01.
According to Chung, in other countries, they often planted trees instead of flowers.
In a related move, Ha Noi scheduled the plantation of 45,000 trees along Thang Long Avenue in the near future. At first, about 20,000 palm trees would be planted.
The tree-planting would make the city greener from Ba Vi District to the National Convention Centre, he said.
The capital hopes to create visible changes in tree management in 12 inner districts, including a plan to plant one million trees by 2020. To reach the goal, the city has consulted scientists and relevant agencies about the types of trees that should be grown in the city, including flamboyant (Delonix regia), queen’s flower (Lagerstroemia speciosa),and dracontomelon (Dracontomelon duperreanum).
Thang Long Avenue, or Lang- Hoa Lac Highway, located west of the city, links the city centre to the former Highway 21A, which is now the starting point of the Ho Chi Minh Highway.
It also connects Ha Noi’s inner areas with satellite urban areas, such as Xuan Mai, Son Tay and other localities. The avenue is 30km long and 140m wide, with six lanes for vehicles. —VNS
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