Plan to implement the Yen Bai provincial planning period 2021 - 2030, vision to 2050

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On July 10, 2024, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam issued Decision 619/QD-TTg on the Planning Implementation Plan for Yen Bai Province for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050.

Vietnam: Plan to implement the Yen Bai provincial planning period 2021 - 2030, vision to 2050

The Prime Minister of Vietnam issued the Plan to implement the Yen Bai provincial planning period 2021 - 2030, vision to 2050 with the main contents as follows:

(1) Regarding public investment projects

- Focus on implementing transportation investment projects, prioritizing the implementation of inter-regional, inter-district, urban development, industry, products, and important fields connecting projects, especially connecting provinces in the Northern midland and mountainous region; roads that create new development spaces, routes connecting transportation with the region and provinces that positively impact local socio-economic development, especially Hanoi City, etc. Open new and upgrade provincial roads, and connecting intersections with the Hanoi - Lao Cai expressway.

- Invest in completing tourism technical infrastructure to meet the criteria of areas recognized as world heritage, national tourist areas, and provincial tourist areas; restore, and promote the value of special national monuments, national monuments, and provincial monuments; invest in important cultural and sports facilities; support investment in public medical facilities and public vocational education facilities that are not self-sufficient; strengthen physical facilities for standard educational and training fields; invest in public social protection facilities; rehabilitation facilities; support investment in physical facilities for science and technology fields; water supply and drainage projects; projects collecting and treating wastewater, solid waste; industrial park and cluster infrastructure; electricity projects; ...

- List of important projects expected to be invested in: According to the attached Appendix.

(2) Investment projects using non-public investment capital sources

- Strive to attract an average of 60 projects/year, of which: each district, district-level town, city attracts at least 2 projects/year; each sector or field prioritizes attracting a minimum of 5 projects/year.

+ Attract investment to develop industries in the direction of increasing productivity, quality, efficiency, using fewer resources, energy, and being environmentally friendly. Develop some industries, such as: renewable energy industry; processing and manufacturing industry serving high-tech agriculture; prioritizing attracting projects in deep processing of agricultural and forestry products; industries serving agriculture and rural areas; industries for mining and deep processing of minerals, high-grade building materials;... Continue to develop the garment industry, focusing on high-value-added segments linked to smart, automated production processes.

+ Strongly develop urban services, logistics, financial-banking services, postal and telecommunications with focused key points; attract large-scale investment projects into the Thac Ba Lake National Tourist Area, Mu Cang Chai and the tourist areas identified as provincial tourist areas; forming provincial-level integrated service zones. Develop tourism combined with resort, scientific and technological activities, high-value medical services, and health care; ... focus on developing experiential tourism products, tourism combined with conferences, seminars, events (MICE), resorts, and eco-tourism with accompanying services such as hotels, restaurants, entertainment, and adventure sports.

+ Develop agriculture in the direction of forming concentrated agricultural production areas as a basis for land accumulation and concentration, attracting business investments in agriculture and high-tech applications in production, enhancing local agricultural production value in-depth, creating high added value.

+ Encourage and attract partners with national and global brands, financial capacity, stable and long-term investment capability, with connectivity and investment attraction for supporting product manufacturing.

- Research and issue policies to encourage enterprises to implement investment projects according to the local development orientation, prioritizing enterprises investing in industrial park and cluster infrastructure; issue mechanisms for enterprises in the area to connect with foreign-invested enterprises to participate in the production value chain.

- List of important projects expected to be invested in: According to the attached Appendix.

(3) Land-use planning

- Land-use planning for Yen Bai Province for 5 years 2021 - 2025:

Comply with the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam’s decisions: Decision 326/QD-TTg of 2022 on allocating national land-use quotas for the period 2021 - 2030, vision to 2050, national land-use plan for 5 years 2021 - 2025 and Decision 227/QD-TTg of 2024 on adjusting some land-use quotas until 2025; Decision 95/QD-TTg of 2023 approving the security land-use planning for the period 2021 - 2030, vision to 2050; Decision 47/QD-TTg of 2024 approving the defense land-use planning for the period 2021 - 2030, vision to 2050 and other relevant regulations.

- Develop a land-use plan for 5 years 2026 - 2030:

Implement according to the land law on the basis of development needs, ensuring feasibility, effectiveness, sustainability, and in line with national land-use orientations, regional planning, the 10-year socio-economic development strategy 2021 - 2030, and the 5-year national socio-economic development plan, the Yen Bai Province Planning for the period 2021 - 2030, vision to 2050; ensuring adherence, continuity, inheritance, stability, and hierarchy.

+ Allocate reasonable land funds prioritizing the development of trade, service, and tourism; develop and expand concentrated industrial parks and clusters; residential areas. Strengthen synchronized infrastructure construction, especially regional and inter-regional traffic infrastructure associated with the formation of industrial, tourism, and service zones and expanding urban and rural residential areas.

+ Allocate sufficient land funds for cultural, sports, medical, educational and training purposes, energy works, postal and telecommunications, scientific research,... to meet socio-economic development goals and improve the material and spiritual life of the people.

+ Protect and develop forest areas, especially special-use forests, headwater protection forests; ensure the forest coverage rate (about 63-65%) to protect the environment.

+ Land exploitation must prioritize national defense and security work; protect landscapes, and ecological environment to use land stably and sustainably, in line with the province and region’s economic development strategy and goals.

(4) Resources and resource utilization to implement the planning

To ensure the goal of a Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) growth rate averaging 8.5% per year during the planning period 2021 - 2030, Yen Bai Province needs to mobilize total social development investment capital of about 280,000 billion VND, specifically:

For detailed content, refer to Decision 619/QD-TTg, which comes into force in Vietnam from July 10, 2024.

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