The detailed regulations on contents of regional planning in Vietnam

The detailed regulations on contents of regional planning in Vietnam (Image from the Internet)

Pursuant to Article 27 of Decree 37/2019/ND-CP regulating the contents of regional planning:

Regional planning shall contain at least:

1. Analysis and assessment of factors, natural conditions and specific resources of the region:

a) Geographic location and natural conditions of the region;

b) Current socio - economic development; natural resources and environment; urban and rural systems; infrastructure; inner-regional connection, connection between the region with other regional and international countries; regional resources that have been being exploited, potentials that have not yet been exploited; risks and effects of natural disasters and climate change on the region;

c) The importance of the region for the country;

dd) Key issues that need addressing during the planning period.

2. Regional development viewpoints and objectives:

a) Viewpoints on regional development, arrangement of space for socio - economic activities, national defense and security activities, infrastructure development, resource use and environmental protection in the region during the planning period;

b) Overall objectives for regional development for the planning that covers a period of 10 years with 20 - 30 year orientations;

c) Specific objectives and targets for socio - economic development, national defense and security assurance, infrastructure development, resource use and environmental protection associated with arrangement of space for regional development during the planning period.

3. Orientations for development of key sectors of the region:

a) Determination of key sectors and objectives for development thereof;

b) Arrangement of space for key sector development;

c) Proposed solutions for key sector development.

4. Plan for development, deployment, selection and allocation of development resources in the region:

a) Arrangement of space for development of nationally important projects specified in the national planning in the region;

b) Formulation and selection of a plan for regional spatial development, including development corridors and areas where development is encouraged; principles of organizing, managing and controlling urban and rural development in the region;

c) Key tasks that need tackling and breakthroughs made by the region during the planning period;

d) Orientations for distribution of resources in the region appropriate to the regional spatial development plan;

dd) Proposed plan for regional spatial arrangement and connection and regulations on cooperation in inter-provincial spatial arrangement and development.

5. The content specified in Point d Clause 2 Article 26 of the Law on Planning.

6. Orientations for development of regional infrastructure:

a) Formulation of a plan to connect urban system at regional level, connect urban and rural areas, connect financial centers, industrial parks and concentrated production areas in the region;

b) Determination of requirements on the system of regional infrastructure; orientations for distribution and development for the system of regional technical and social infrastructure specified in the national planning, plans to connect regional and inter-provincial infrastructure systems, including traffic network, electricity and energy supply networks, irrigation network, water supply and drainage network, wastewater treatment network, technical preparations, telecommunications network, hazardous waste treatment complexes and regional social infrastructure.

7. Orientations for environmental protection, natural disaster management and resilience to climate change in the region:

a) Orientations for a connection aimed at regional and inter-provincial environmental protection and protection of environment in inter-provincial river basins and inter-provincial coastal areas;

b) Orientations for establishment of high biodiversity areas, important wetlands, important ecological landscapes, protected areas, biodiversity conservation facilities, inter-provincial biodiversity corridors;

c) Orientations for development of dikes and infrastructure serving natural disaster management in the region;

d) Orientations for spatial arrangement of regional and inter-provincial centralized waste treatment complexes, including their locations, scale, types of waste, expected technologies and operational area;

dd) Orientations for sustainable development of inter-provincial special-use forests, protection forests and production forests and development of forestry infrastructure;

e) Regulations on cooperation in riverbed gravel and sand exploration and extraction, river bed, bank and terrace protection; cooperation in water resource extraction and river basin water pollution control; cooperation in natural disaster management and resilience to climate change;

g) Regulations on cooperation in implementing regional environmental protection and management solutions.

8. Orientations for river basin water resource extraction and protection in the region:

a) Orientations for water function zoning; orientations for prioritized distribution of water in normal circumstances and in cases of drought or water shortage; orientations for standby water supply; orientations for water resource monitoring system and water extraction and use system; orientations for works serving regulation, extraction, use and development of water resources;

b) Orientations for solutions for protecting water resources, restoring polluted, degraded or exhaustible water resources to ensure their functions; orientations for system for monitoring water quality and discharge of wastewater into water resources;

c) Orientations for solutions for preventing and remedying damage caused by water.

9. A list of prioritized projects and their execution in order of priority:

a) Criteria for determining prioritized projects of the region during the planning period;

b) Justification for making a list of important projects of the region; their execution in proposed order of priority and proposed execution phases.

10. Solutions and resources for planning implementation:

a) Regional connection mechanisms and policies;

b) Solutions for raising investment;

c) Human resource development solutions;

d) Environmental, scientific and technological solutions;

dd) Solutions for managing and controlling urban and rural area development;

e) Solutions for organizing and supervising planning implementation.

11. Planning reports, including consolidated and brief reports, regional planning diagrams, maps and database.

A list and scale of regional planning maps specified in Section VIII Appendix I hereof.

Above is the consulting content.