The rich and beautiful traditional lifestyle is combined with civilized and modern means to create comfortable, high quality and traditionally rooted living standards for people and society of a modern Viet Nam. Implementing rapid and sustainable urbanization while maintaining the living in harmony with nature in rural areas and establishing sustainable consumption behaviours within the context of global integration. Key targets for the period towards 2020 include: The rate of grade III cities with wastewater collection and treatment systems that meet regulatory standards: 60%; those of grade IV and grade V cities and craft villages: 40%; improving environment in severely polluted areas 100%; rate of waste that is collected and treated under standards provided by the Prime Minister's Decision No. 2149/Q-TTg; the area for trees reaching urban standards; share of public transportation in large and medium cities reaching 35-45%; the rate of large and medium cities gaining green urban standards reaching 50%. III. SOLUTIONS