By 2035, Hanoi aims to become a green, smart and modern city that embodies cultural excellence, deepens international integration, maintains high competitiveness and political-social stability and develops into a peaceful city where residents enjoy happiness and where visitors find a safe, friendly and attractive destination.

Hanoi will establish several education and healthcare centers ranked among the leading institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, along with major financial, commercial and innovation service hubs at the national, regional and international levels.

The city will also become a center for research and development while serving as the core driver of development linkages across the Hanoi Capital Region, the Red River Delta and the Northern Midlands and Mountainous Region.

By 2045, Hanoi is expected to become a major innovation center in the Asia-Pacific region, gathering knowledge and technology while possessing modern infrastructure and urban governance, with residents enjoying high living standards in a civilized, safe and livable society.

By 2065, Hanoi is envisioned as a global city with a high and sustainable level of development, ranking among the world's capitals with the highest quality of life and happiness.

By 2085 and beyond, Hanoi aims to become one of the most influential cities within regional and global Asia-Pacific urban networks, leading trends in smart urban development, knowledge-based economies and innovation, while standing as a model sustainable megacity with broad international influence.

The city will accelerate its green development roadmap by "greening" the inner city, transitioning toward clean energy and proactively participating in carbon markets to sustainably reduce emissions.

Hanoi will prioritize redirecting traffic flow away from the urban core while expanding transportation corridors along rivers to reduce direct pressure on ring roads and radial routes and create sustainable interregional and interprovincial development corridors.

The city will add new road and railway transportation links between Hanoi and neighboring provinces while accelerating road projects, river-crossing bridges and urban railway systems to expand urban development space.

In addition, the capital will strengthen interregional transportation systems linking new and existing urban areas while combining them with renovation and reconstruction of old residential blocks and aging neighborhoods.

Hanoi will plan concentrated agricultural production zones and industrial slaughterhouse networks while building a citywide digital database for food traceability and applying technology to receive public feedback.

The city will tighten management of animal transportation and trading activities while standardizing and reorganizing street food business locations tied to mandatory food safety training.

Hanoi is establishing a new growth model focused on completing industrialization and modernization before 2030, shifting from extensive growth toward productivity, science, technology and innovation-driven development.

The city will develop and improve the effectiveness of free trade zones, free economic zones, high-tech parks and smart, ecological high-tech industrial parks.

The capital will selectively attract investment into high-tech, environmentally friendly and high value-added sectors such as electronics, semiconductor chips, artificial intelligence, supporting industries, logistics and digital technology.

At the same time, the city will develop tourism, cultural industries and cultural service markets into spearhead economic sectors that position Hanoi as a creative city in the region and the world.

Hanoi considers the cultural values of Thang Long-Hanoi to be a pillar defining Vietnam's national soft power in the new era while promoting close connections among private enterprises, state-owned enterprises and foreign-invested businesses to establish sustainable supply chains.

The city will build an innovation ecosystem designed, created and technologically mastered by Hanoi itself, using the Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park as its core while applying digital data, simulation models and predictive analytics to support decision-making and improve governance efficiency.

The capital will finalize regulations and establish specialized standards, economic-technical norms and pricing frameworks in science, technology and construction while implementing a system of "major urban challenges" as the basis for commissioning and organizing science, technology and innovation tasks.

In addition, Hanoi will develop a concentrated system of research institutes and key laboratories to avoid fragmentation while implementing a State-School-Investor partnership model for co-investment and operation of major laboratories.

The city will promote comprehensive digital transformation across all sectors, creating a foundation for new productive forces and building a smart city centered on residents and businesses.

Hanoi aims to synchronously develop digital infrastructure, shared AI platforms and standardized knowledge databases to provide input resources for applied research, core technology development and commercialization of research outcomes.

The city will also strongly develop digital resources and the digital economy as new growth drivers while expanding telecommunications infrastructure, digital infrastructure and supporting services such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, big data and blockchain technology.

Hanoi's urban spatial restructuring strategy will focus on a multi-polar and multi-center model with a layered structure.

Under this strategy, the city will prioritize restructuring the historic inner city while preserving spaces with unique value, including the Ba Dinh political-administrative center, Hoan Kiem Lake and surrounding areas, the Temple of Literature, the Old Quarter, the French Quarter, West Lake and nearby zones and the Red River corridor.

Hanoi will reduce construction density and high-rise development in several central locations to reserve land for parks, green spaces and public amenities while closely integrating redevelopment areas with public transportation systems, underground space-oriented development (TOD) and modern, ecological rural development rich in local identity.

The city will focus on restructuring and improving workforce quality, particularly in key sectors such as high technology, finance and public governance, while developing Hanoi into the nation's leading center for high-quality workforce training through international educational partnerships and a "State-School-Business" cooperation model.

The capital will establish special and breakthrough mechanisms to attract talented experts and leading specialists to serve as "chief engineers" and "chief architects" for Hanoi's major development challenges.