Ceremony announcing establishment of Dong Nai City to be held tonight

At 7:30 p.m. today (May 18), the Dong Nai City Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee and Fatherland Front Committee will hold a ceremony announcing the establishment of Dong Nai City.

According to the program, the ceremony will include the announcement and presentation of the National Assembly (NA)’s resolution on the establishment of Dong Nai City, along with an art performance and a high-altitude fireworks display marking the occasion.

Under NA’s Resolution No. 30/2026/QH16, Dong Nai City was officially established on April 30, 2026, becoming the seventh city in the country.

Dong Nai City was established on the basis of the entire natural area and population size of the former Dong Nai province. The city borders Ho Chi Minh City, Lam Dong province, Tay Ninh province and the Kingdom of Cambodia. Dong Nai City covers a natural area of more than 12,700 square kilometers and has a population of nearly five million people, with 95 commune-level administrative units, including 33 wards and 62 communes.

Dong Nai City currently serves as a strategic hub directly linking Ho Chi Minh City,  the country’s largest economic center, with the Central Highlands, the South-Central Coast and the Mekong Delta. With increasingly modern and synchronized socio-economic infrastructure systems, particularly in  transportation, industry, services and logistics, together with Long Thanh International Airport currently under accelerated construction, Dong Nai City possesses strong advantages for developing into a major urban center. The city is envisioned as a multi-center, multi-functional development hub with strong spillover effects across the Southern region and the country.

The establishment of Dong Nai City is expected to create new development momentum not only for Dong Nai but also for the Southern region and the country as a whole. It marks a fundamental shift in both development and governance models, with the goal of turning Dong Nai into a major urban center capable of sharing functions, enhancing connectivity, and developing in close coordination with Ho Chi Minh City.

The city is expected to become an important national growth pole, serving as a regional economic connectivity hub and an international gateway. It is also envisioned as a dynamic, modern and sustainable urban development model contributing to the formation of a new development space for the southeastern region in line with the Politburo’s conclusions.