Ho Chi Minh City's Ninth Communist Party Congress ended Friday, with the re-election of Le Thanh Hai as the Secretary of the City Party Unit for the next five-year term.

The Politburo member was unanimously re-elected.

Hai asked city authorities to quickly implement the decisions made during the congress into specific programs.

The congress came up with 18 targets for socio-economic development, including raising annual GDP growth to 12 percent to US$4,800 per capita; restructuring the economy to 57 percent services, 42 percent industry and one percent agriculture; creating jobs for more than 120,000 people every year; and reducing the number of households under poverty line (VND1 million a person a month) to 2 percent by the end of 2015.