After Tangier, Marrakech and Salé, it is now Tetouan's turn to be equipped with an integrated, balanced and inclusive development programme, allowing it to rise to the level of cities worthy of the name. This is thanks to the launch by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, on Saturday, of the integrated economic and urban development programme for the city (2014-2018), endowed with a budget of nearly 5.5 billion dirhams (MAD). It is a five-year programme, which proceeds from a systematic participatory approach that has involved the various actors of the city. It aims to make Tetouan an attractive and residential city for services, people and capital. It thus aspires to meet the urban, economic, social and environmental challenges facing this agglomeration in the North of the Kingdom. Thus, on the urban level, this flagship programme notably provides for the strengthening of internal roads and routes, the dualisation of the RN2 connecting Tetouan to Chefchaouen, the modernisation of the public lighting network, the strengthening and renewal of the liquid sanitation, drinking water and electricity network of the urban commune of Tetouan, the neighbouring rural communes and the urban commune of M'Diq, the construction of public squares as well as the creation of landscaped parks and the completion of a controlled public landfill. On the economic side, the programme focuses on the completion of the development of the industrial zone, the creation of a craft complex, the upgrading of local markets, the construction of a wholesale fish market and the construction of communal facilities (slaughterhouses, wholesale fruit and vegetable market, livestock market). The safety of the population is not left out, as the programme also provides for the burying of high-voltage power lines and the construction of an electrical transformer station and a Civil Protection barracks. On the social level, the said programme for Tetouan aspires to the rehabilitation of the sports sector via the creation of the large Tetouan sports complex, an indoor multi-sports hall, an indoor swimming pool, a tennis club and two sports fields. It also aims to promote the health sector through the creation of a regional hospital, the upgrading of the Saniat R'mel provincial hospital, the construction of two health centres, in addition to the strengthening of local social facilities. The training sector is also at the centre of this programme, in the sense that it provides for the construction of a school of architecture, a higher institute of applied technologies, a school of applied sciences, a university campus, preparatory classes for the grandes écoles and the rehabilitation of the faculty of sciences. Particular attention is paid to environmental issues with a goal of sustainability. Thus, the programme provides for the development of the Oued Martil valley which crosses the communes of Martil, Azla and Tetouan, notably through the construction of hotels, residences and leisure spaces, the development of a golf course, the construction of a marina, the development of the Tamouda plain and the "Touibla" island and park. Thus, the Sovereign has made the economic and urban development of the city of Tetouan a flagship project, in complementarity with the gigantic modernisation strategy of the entire Northern zone of the Kingdom.