Task of preparing and adjusting national land use plan approved

The Government has just issued Resolution No.52/NQ-CP approving the task of preparing and adjusting the national land use plan for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050.
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The adjustment will be carried out on the entire natural land area of the country and must ensure the following objectives: Rational, economical and effective allocation of land resources to meet the requirements of continuous double-digit growth, ensuring national defence and security, associated with environmental protection, adaptation to climate change, creating a foundation for our country to become a developed, high-income country by 2045.

The Government assigned the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to act as the investor in preparing the National Land Use Plan Adjustment according to the simplified procedures and processes and take responsibility according to the provisions of current law. Relevant ministries and sectors are responsible for coordinating with the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to implement planning adjustments.

The planning must be consistent with the national master plan, ensuring consistency, inheritance, and synchronisation between land use planning and national and sectoral planning, strategies and plans for rapid and sustainable socio-economic development; prioritising the development of a synchronous infrastructure system, industry, services, urban development, maintaining reasonable rice-growing land areas, ensuring national food security, flexibly converting low-efficiency land areas, etc.

In addition, it is necessary to ensure the need for effective land use in the short and long term for localities, sectors, and fields; land use allocation must be appropriate and flexible in line with the practical development requirements of the country, each region, each locality; ensuring inter-regional and inter-provincial connectivity, organic linkage between urban and rural areas, converting new rural areas to urban areas; linking infrastructure development with population planning, between industrialisation and urbanisation on the national level and each region, locality,...

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