Haiphong

Haiphong (Vietnamese: Hải Phòng, IPA: [ha᷉ːj fâwŋ͡m] (listen)), or Hai Phong, is a major industrial city, the third-largest city of Vietnam [3]. Hai Phong is also the center of technology, economy, culture, medicine, education, science and trade in the northern coast of Vietnam.

Haiphong

Thành phố Hải Phòng
Municipality (Class-1)
Hải Phòng City
Hải Phòng City
Nickname(s): 
Flamboyant City (Thành phố Hoa Phượng Đỏ)
Provincial location in Vietnam
Coordinates: 20°51′54.5″N 106°41′01.8″E
Country Vietnam
Government
 • Party Secretary:Lê Văn Thành
 • People's Council Chairman:Lê Văn Thành
 • People's Committee Chairman:Nguyễn Văn Tùng
Area
 • Total1,527.4 km2 (589.7 sq mi)
Population
 (2019)[1]
 • Total2,028,514[2]
 • Density1,274/km2 (3,300/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+07:00 (ICT)
Area codes225
WebsiteHaiphong.gov.vn

Haiphong was founded in 1887 as a seaport province by colonists during French colonial rule. In 1888, the president of the French Third Republic, Sadi Carnot, promulgated a decree to establish Haiphong. From 1954 to 1975, Haiphong served as the most important maritime city of North Vietnam, and it became one of direct-controlled municipalities of a reunified Vietnam with Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in 1976. In the 21st century, Haiphong has emerged as a trading gateway, modern, green industrial city of Vietnam, oriented to become the third special-class city of Vietnam by 2030 to 2050 at the latest.

History

Dynastic Vietnam

Haiphong was the home of Lê Chân, one of the female generals under the command of the Trưng Sisters who rose against Chinese rule in 40 AD and ruled until their defeat in 43 AD. Centuries later under the Mạc Dynasty, the area earned the appellation Hải-dương thương-chính quan-phòng (海陽商政關房 / "The trading defensive area of Hải Dương Province") as it protected the eastern flank of Mac kings' home province.

China street in the late 19th century

By the 19th century at the end of Nguyễn Emperor Tự Đức's reign, the Hang Kenh Communal House in what is now the city's Le Chan District was made the administrative seat of An Dương District, restoring its regional importance.[4] The area by then had developed into a sizable commercial port.

At the eve of the French conquest in 1881, a typhoon ravaged the area, killing about 300,000 people in and around Haiphong. Despite the damages, Haiphong was developed by the French to serve as Indochina's main naval base over the ensuing decades.

Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Vietnam War
See also: Operation Rolling Thunder, Operation Linebacker, and Operation Linebacker II

Following the defeat of Japan in World War II, Vietnamese nationalists agitated for independence against French return. French forces landed in Haiphong and encountered resistance which resulted in the deaths of three French soldiers. In retaliation, the French ships, among them the cruiser Suffren, shelled the city, setting it ablaze[5] and precipitating the First Indochina War.[6][7] French infantry forces under the command of Jean-Étienne Valluy entered the city, fighting house to house with the support of armored units and airplanes.[8]

Late in the Vietnam War, Haiphong was subjected to heavy bombing by US Navy and Air Force strike aircraft because it was North Vietnam's only major port. U.S. Admiral Thomas H. Moorer ordered the mining of Haiphong harbor on 8 May 1972, effectively sealing the port. Until it was lifted, the mining caused no casualty.[9][10] Despite being targeted, the physical structure of the city was mostly unaffected by the war as the US had a self-imposed prohibition zone for the city. After the war, the city recovered its role as a significant industrial center.[4]

Geography

Haiphong is a coastal city located at the mouth of the Cấm River, in Vietnam's north-eastern coastal area, 120 km east of Hanoi. The Bính Bridge crosses the Cam and connects the city with Thủy Nguyên District. It has a total natural area of 152,318.49ha (2001). It borders Quảng Ninh Province to the north, Hải Dương Province to the west, Thái Bình Province to the south, and the Gulf of Tonkin to the east. Bach Long Vi island, Cat Ba Island and the Long Châu islands, located in the Gulf, are also administered as part of the city.

Climate

Haiphong features a humid subtropical climate, with hot, humid summers and warm, dry winters. The city is noticeably wetter from April through October; roughly 90% of the city's annual precipitation (which is approximately 1600 mm of rainfall) typically falls during these months. There is a noticeable difference in temperatures between the city's winters and summers. Haiphong's coolest months, January and February, sees average high temperatures reach 20 °C (68 °F) and average low temperatures at around 14 °C (57 °F). Its warmest months, June and July, sees average high temperatures hover around 33 °C (91 °F) and average low temperatures at around 26 °C (79 °F). Sea temperatures range from a low of 21 °C (70 °F) in February to a high of 30 °C (86 °F) during the months of July and August.[11]

Climate data for Haiphong (Phù Liễn, located in Kiến An District)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 30.4
(86.7)		 34.4
(93.9)		 35.4
(95.7)		 37.4
(99.3)		 41.5
(106.7)		 38.5
(101.3)		 38.5
(101.3)		 39.4
(102.9)		 37.4
(99.3)		 36.6
(97.9)		 33.1
(91.6)		 30.0
(86.0)		 41.5
(106.7)
Average high °C (°F) 19.8
(67.6)		 19.7
(67.5)		 22.0
(71.6)		 26.2
(79.2)		 30.5
(86.9)		 31.8
(89.2)		 32.1
(89.8)		 31.5
(88.7)		 30.7
(87.3)		 28.7
(83.7)		 25.5
(77.9)		 22.2
(72.0)		 26.7
(80.1)
Daily mean °C (°F) 16.3
(61.3)		 16.7
(62.1)		 19.2
(66.6)		 22.9
(73.2)		 26.5
(79.7)		 28.0
(82.4)		 28.4
(83.1)		 27.8
(82.0)		 26.8
(80.2)		 24.5
(76.1)		 21.3
(70.3)		 18.1
(64.6)		 23.0
(73.4)
Average low °C (°F) 14.2
(57.6)		 14.9
(58.8)		 17.5
(63.5)		 20.9
(69.6)		 24.0
(75.2)		 25.4
(77.7)		 25.9
(78.6)		 25.2
(77.4)		 24.2
(75.6)		 21.8
(71.2)		 18.6
(65.5)		 15.5
(59.9)		 20.7
(69.3)
Record low °C (°F) 5.9
(42.6)		 4.5
(40.1)		 6.1
(43.0)		 10.4
(50.7)		 15.5
(59.9)		 18.4
(65.1)		 20.3
(68.5)		 20.4
(68.7)		 15.6
(60.1)		 12.7
(54.9)		 9.0
(48.2)		 4.9
(40.8)		 4.5
(40.1)
Average rainfall mm (inches) 26
(1.0)		 29
(1.1)		 49
(1.9)		 93
(3.7)		 202
(8.0)		 247
(9.7)		 226
(8.9)		 359
(14.1)		 253
(10.0)		 155
(6.1)		 39
(1.5)		 20
(0.8)		 1,698
(66.9)
Average rainy days 8.3 13.4 17.1 13.9 12.3 14.6 13.5 17.4 13.8 10.6 6.3 5.2 146.4
Average relative humidity (%) 83.1 87.7 90.8 90.5 86.9 86.1 85.8 87.8 85.3 81.4 77.9 78.3 85.1
Mean monthly sunshine hours 87 46 43 88 190 183 207 179 187 190 156 139 1,695
Source: Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology[12]
Average sea temperature [11]
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average temperature °C (°F) 22 °C (72 °F) 21 °C (70 °F) 22 °C (72 °F) 24 °C (75 °F) 27 °C (81 °F) 29 °C (84 °F) 30 °C (86 °F) 30 °C (86 °F) 29 °C (84 °F) 28 °C (82 °F) 26 °C (79 °F) 23 °C (73 °F) 26 °C (79 °F)

Administrative divisions

Haiphong is subdivided into 15 district-level sub-divisions:

They are further subdivided into 10 commune-level towns (or townlets), 148 communes, and 72 wards.

Table of local government districts
District Number of wards
(communes and towns)		 Area (km²)
(2009)		 Population
(2018)		 Density
(people/km²)
Dương Kinh 6 wards 45.85 127,362 1,062.16
Đồ Sơn 7 wards 42.37 102,234 1,050.6
Hải An 8 wards 88.39 180,235 1,168.31
Kiến An 10 wards 29.6 147,256 3,290.64
Hồng Bàng 11 wards 14.27 172,310 7,121.58
Ngô Quyền 13 wards 10.97 212,413 15,005.65
Lê Chân 15 wards 12.31 240,123 17,028.27
Sub-Total (Urban Districts) 70 wards 243.76 1,181,933 3,157.77
An Dương 1 town + 15 communes 98.29 164,300 1,635.47
An Lão 2 towns + 15 communes 113.99 152,518 1,160.77
Bạch Long Vĩ - 4.5 912 200.4
Cát Hải 2 towns + 10 communes 323.1 43,187 91.84
Kiến Thụy 1 town + 17 communes 107.5 140,135 1,175.1
Tiên Lãng 1 town + 22 communes 191.2 160,290 738.95
Vĩnh Bảo 1 town + 29 communes 180.5 185,340 958.91
Thủy Nguyên 2 towns + 35 communes 242.8 323,205 1,248..32
Sub-Total (Rural Districts) 10 towns + 148 communes 1,261.98 1,169,887 845.84
Total 70 wards, 10 towns, 148 communes 1,505.74 1,837,173 1,220.11

Economy

Haiphong is a major economic center of the North in particular and Vietnam in general both. Under French domination, Haiphong was level 1 city, equal to Saigon and Hanoi. The last years of the 19th century, the French had proposed to build Haiphong into the economic capital of Indochina.[13] Today, Haiphong is still one of the most important economic centers of Vietnam. In 2009, Haiphong state budget revenue reached 34,000 billion Vnd. In 2011, budget revenues in the city reached 47,725 billion, increase 19% compared to 2010.[14] In 2015, total revenues of the city reached 56 288 billion. Government plans that to 2020, Haiphong's revenues will be over 80,000 billion and the domestic revenue reach 20.000 billion. In the ranking of the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) 2013 of Vietnam, Haiphong city ranked at No. 15/63 provinces.[15] Haiphong has relationship of trading goods with more than 40 countries and territories around the world. Haiphong is striving to become one of the largest commercial centers of the country.[16]

Industry

Industry is a key sector in Haiphong including food processing, light industries and heavy industries. Major products include fish sauce, beer, cigarettes, textiles, paper, plastic pipes, cement, iron, pharmaceuticals, electric fans, motorbikes, steel pipes and ships and out-sourcing software implementation.[17] Most of these industries have been growing significantly between 2000 and 2007, with the exceptions of the cigarette and pharmaceutical industries. Shipbuilding, steel pipes, plastic pipes and textiles are among the industries with the most rapid growth.[17]

There are also growing industries supplying products used by existing industries in the city. PetroVietnam set up a joint-venture PVTex with textile manufacturer Vinatex to build Vietnam's first polyester fiber plant in Haiphong. The factory will use by-products from oil-refining and reduce reliance on imported materials.[18] 270,600 people were employed in Haiphong's industry. 112,600 industrial jobs were created between 2000 and 2007.[17]

Agriculture, forestry and fishery

Despite its status as a city, around one third of Haiphong's area or 52,300 ha (as of 2007) are used for agriculture. Rice is the most important crop, taking up around 80% of the agricultural land with an output of 463,100 tons in 2007.[17] Other agricultural products include maize, sugar and peanuts.[17]

Haiphong has a relatively large fishing sector with an output of 79,705 tons (2007). Gross output has almost doubled between 2000 and 2007, mostly due to fast growth in aquaculture, which made up 60% of gross output in 2007. Despite its coastal location, sea fish contribute relatively little to the sector (around one fourth). Nam Định Province and Thái Bình Province have much larger fishing sectors and even the inland Hải Dương Province has a larger gross output from fishing than Haiphong.[17]

As of 2007, 315,500 were employed in agriculture and fishery, a significant decrease from 396,300 in 2000. However, these sectors still account for almost a third of total employment in Haiphong, a larger share than industry.[17] However, gross output in both agriculture and fishery have been growing significantly between 2000 and 2007.

Demographics

Haiphong is the third most populous city in Vietnam, with a population of 2.103.500 for the metropolitan area (2015), encompassing an area of 1,507.57 km², 46,1 % of population reside in the urban districts.[19] The gender distribution is half female (50.4%).[20]

Population growth

As of the 2009 census, Haiphong's average annual population growth rate was given as 4.0%. Haiphong's crude birth rate was recorded at 18.1 live births per 1000 persons vs the crude death rate of 7.6 per 1000 persons. Life expectancy at birth was estimated at 77.1 years for women and 72.0 years for men, or 74.5 years overall. Infant mortality rate was measured at 11.8 infant deaths per 1000 live births, just over two points above the nation's average for urban areas. In the same census, the city's out-migration was 1.9% vs in-migration of 2.8% and, for a net migration rate of 0.9%.[20]

Education

Transport
NASA image of Haiphong

Roads

Haiphong is located at the junction of two National Highways: Route 5, leading west to Hanoi, and Route 10, leading south to Nam Định and onward to connect with National Route 1A at Ninh Bình. Highway 356 passes west–east from the Route 5/10 junction through Haiphong's city center all the way to the coast. A connecting road from route 5 to route 18 links Haiphong with Quảng Ninh Province. In 2015, the new highway connecting Haiphong with Hanoi was completed; this is the most modern highway in Vietnam and reduces the trip by one hour as compared to the previous route.[21]

Within the city there are several long-distance bus depots: Niem Nghia, Cau Rao.

A new highway route was completed last year 2016 to make the transfer faster and easier. From Hanoi to Haiphong and back, it takes less than 2 hours to reach not so long as 3 hours as before. Also shorten the distance from Haiphong to Thai Binh, Hai Duong, Hung Yen.

Tourists can easily catch a coach from Niem Nghia bus station to Hanoi or Cat Ba island, either Quang Ninh, or South of Vietnam.

Airports

The main airport serving Haiphong is Cat Bi International Airport with three flights daily to Ho Chi Minh city. In April, 2011 Vietnam Airlines launched routes to Da Nang with 5 flights a week. An international airport for Haiphong, situated in Tien Lang district, is in the planning stages; if realized it would become the largest airport in northern Vietnam.

Seaports

Haiphong port is one of the largest ports in Vietnam and south-east Asia as a whole. The Port of Haiphong on the Cấm River is divided into three main docks: Hoang Dieu (Central terminal) located near the city's center, Chua Ve, and Dinh Vu both farther downstream to the east.[22] Several ferry terminals connect Haiphong with the neighboring Cát Hải and Cát Bà Islands; Ben Binh Ferry terminal is located near the city center while Dinh Vu Ferry is located on a spit of land on the coast. The government had approved the plans to build an international port in Lach Huyen – 15 kilometers from the current port. Once completed this will be one of the deepest port in Vietnam with draft of 14m, capable of receiving ships up to 100.000 DWT.

Railway

Hai Phong Railway Station built in 1902 is the eastern terminus of the Kunming–Hai Phong Railway, also known as the Yunnan–Vietnam Railway. Built at by the French during their occupation, the railway once connected Haiphong to the city of Kunming in Yunnan, China, although service along the Chinese portion of the line is currently suspended. Rail travel from Haiphong with connections to the rest of the Vietnamese railway network is via Hanoi.

There are daily trains start from 6AM until 6PM from Hai Phong city to the capital Hanoi and return. The trains take approximately 3 hours to arrive to Hanoi as well as the same period back to the landport city.

Notable people

Twin towns and sister cities
  • Du Hang Pagoda
  • Du Hang Pagoda Architecture
  • The City's Opera House
  • A Buddhist temple in Haiphong.
  • Haiphong Cathedral (2007)
  • Haiphong City International Exhibition Center
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See also

References
  1. Statistical Handbook of Vietnam 2015, General Statistics Office Of Vietnam
  2. http://thongkehaiphong.gov.vn/tong-dieu-tra-dan-so-va-nha-o-nam-2019/ket-qua-so-bo-tong-dieu-tra-dan-so-va-nha-o-nam-2019-324.html
  3. https://www.deepc.vn/en/about-vietnam/about-haiphong-lach-huyen-deep-sea-port
  4. Haiphong's Culture. HaiphongTourism.gov.vn
  5. Vietnam by Spencer C. Tucker, page 47. "On 23 November DebeS delivered an ultimatum to the Vietnamese at Haiphong, ordering them to withdraw from the French section of the city, the Chinese quarter, and the port. He gave them only two hours to reply. When the time was up the French subjected the Vietnamese positions to air, land, and sea bombardment, the bulk of the firepower coming from the three- and eight-inch guns of the French Navy Cruiser Suffren. Only military targets were destroyed and not the Vietnamese quarter as some have claimed. Estimates of the number killed in the shelling and ensuing panic vary widely. Casualties up to 20,000 have been cited. French Admiral Batter later said that no more than 6,000 Vietnamese had died, but in 1981 Vu Quoc Uy, then chairman of the Haiphong municipal committee, told Stanley Karnow that the figure was only 500 to 1,000 dead. Others have put the figure as low as 200".
  6. (in French) Maurice Vaïsse, L'Armée française dans la guerre d'Indochine (1946–1954) : Adaptation ou inadaptation, 2000, p. 276
  7. Plon, Le General de Gaulle et l'Indochine 1940–1946, page 210. "In connection with the naval bombardment, let us note that only the ships of small tonnage could go up the river of Haiphong. On November 23, two colonial sloops supported for the first time the French troops with their artillery to a limited effect: the Chevreuil with its double turret, with its two pairs of 100mm, Savorgnan de Brazza with its four turrets each of one 138mm. No battleship was present. On November 27 on that the evening, the cruiser Suffren was in the Bay d' Along, its tidal water prohibiting it access of the Cua Cam. It transported troops in reinforcement..."
  8. Phillippe Devillers, Histoire du Viêt-Nam de 1940 à 1952. Editions du Seuil, Paris. Third edition,1952, pp. 331–340
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  10. Forbes, Andrew, and Henley, David: Vietnam Past and Present: The North (History and culture of Hanoi and Tonkin). Chiang Mai. Cognoscenti Books, 2012. ASIN: B006DCCM9Q.
  11. Haiphong Climate Guide, Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  12. "Vietnam Building Code Natural Physical & Climatic Data for Construction" (PDF) (in Vietnamese). Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
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  17. General Statistics Office (2009): Socio-economic Statistical Data of 63 Provinces and Cities, Vietnam. Statistical Publishing House, Hanoi
  18. "PVTex to operate first polyester fiber project early 2011". The Saigon Times. 2010-05-14. Archived from the original on 2011-10-06. Retrieved 2011-07-06.
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  21. Administrator. "Hanoi – Hai Phong Expressway Project". www.vidifi.vn.
  22. "Haiphong Port: Maps". Archived from the original on 2011-08-21. Retrieved 2011-04-09.

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