National land use strategy for 2030, with a vision to 2050 in Vietnam (Internet image)

National land use strategy for 2030, with a vision to 2050 in Vietnam (Internet image)

National land use strategy for 2030, with a vision to 2050 in Vietnam

The Government of Vietnam issued Resolution 138/NQ-CP dated October 25, 2022, on the National Master Plan for the period 2021–2030, with a vision to 2050.

The national land use strategy is as follows:

- Ensure the demand for land use to realize socio-economic development goals. Reasonable, economical, and efficient allocation of land resources to sectors, fields, and localities in socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security, associated with environmental protection and adaptation to climate change.

- Arrange the land fund to meet the requirements of synchronous infrastructure system development; ensure connection of inter-sectoral and inter-regional development spaces; economic corridors and development driving regions of the country; create a breakthrough to meet the development requirements of the country, especially in transport, energy and digital infrastructure; strengthen connectivity with the region and the world.

Prioritize the land fund to meet the increasing demand for culture, physical training, sports, education, health... from the citizens. Secure land funds for defense and security purposes.

- Manage the rice-growing area of 3.5 million ha by forming concentrated and large-scale commodity production areas; converting inefficient rice-growing land to more efficient crop and livestock production.

Strictly control the conversion of agricultural land, especially rice-growing land, to other uses, along with ensuring the interests of rice growers and rice-growing localities.

- Strictly manage, protect, and restore natural forests in association with biodiversity conservation, landscape protection, and ecological environment.

Strongly develop and improve the quality of planted forests, especially special-use forests, watershed protection forests, and coastal protection forests.

- Expand the land area of the industrial park, concentrated in dynamic areas associated with economic corridors. continue to expand urban land associated with the process of urbanization.

Some other development strategy related to land use in Vietnam

- In agro-forestry-fishery: allows flexible changes in the structure of crops and livestock on rice land but does not change the nature and conditions of rice land use so that it can be converted back to rice cultivation when needed.

- In the development orientation of the Mekong Delta,

To concentrate on modern, large-scale commodity agricultural production in association with the processing industry and product branding; restructuring key products in the direction of reducing rice, increasing fruit and aquatic products; and more flexible agricultural land use.

For the list of important national projects,

The list of important national programs and projects identified in the master plan is for guidance only and may be considered, adjusted, and supplemented during the investment policy decision process in accordance with the law.

The divergence of the implementation of programs and projects shall be considered and adjusted appropriately by competent authorities depending on the capacity of resources.

During the investment preparation and project investment policy decision process, the objectives, scale, location, total investment, capital sources, and land use needs of each specific project will be determined.

See more at Resolution 138/NQ-CP dated October 25, 2022.

Chau Thanh

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