How to adjust the national land use plan when merging provinces and cities?

(NLDO) - Adjusting the National Land Use Plan in the spirit of "local decision, local action, local responsibility"

On the morning of March 28, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha chaired a meeting with ministries, branches, and experts, connecting online with localities on the plan to adjust the National Land Use Plan for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha chaired the meeting. Photo: VGP

The Deputy Prime Minister stated that in the context of streamlining the organizational apparatus, changing and merging administrative boundaries of localities, aiming for double-digit growth targets... there is a requirement to change the approach, basis, and thinking with the previous development space for the National Land Use Plan as the foundation, orientation for adjusting national, regional, local sectoral plans, urban and rural construction...

National land use planning must be dynamic, open and long-term forecasting, clearly and firmly identifying issues that need to be controlled and managed, but definitely not "not knowing, not being able to manage, then banning"; at the same time, creating space for development and creativity for localities in the spirit of "locality decides, locality acts, locality takes responsibility".

According to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment Le Minh Ngan, the goal of adjusting the National Land Use Planning is to allocate land resources reasonably, economically and effectively.

Prioritize the development of a synchronous infrastructure system, industry, services, urban development, maintain reasonable rice-growing land area to ensure national food security, and flexibly convert low-efficiency land area.

At the meeting, leaders of several ministries, branches and localities said that it is necessary to stipulate a transitional period to allow the use of existing land use and urban and rural construction plans, while calculating and adjusting economic and social development plans after completing the consolidation, merger and rearrangement of provincial and commune-level administrative units and abolishing the district level.

Prof. Dr. Vu Nang Dung, Chairman of the Vietnam Soil Science Association, emphasized that the approach to adjusting national land use planning is very important to ensure dynamism and openness. "We need to strongly decentralize and empower localities, while the Central Government only manages and controls a number of important indicators (rice land, forest land, national defense and security land, etc.)" - he said.

Concluding the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to continue to preside over and work with ministries, branches and localities to unify plans for adjusting land use indicators.

Along with that, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment calculates the transitional period of using land use planning and plans when the district level is abolished as well as the responsibilities, authority and tasks of provincial and communal authorities; the mechanism and principles for adjusting land use targets in case localities complete the merger.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/dieu-chinh-quy-hoach-su-dung-dat-quoc-gia-the-nao-khi-sap-nhap-cac-tinh-thanh-196250328175441026.htm