Site clearance - from Directive No. 08-CT/TU to Resolution No. 10-NQ/TU

After 3 years of implementing Directive No. 08-CT/TU of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, site clearance work has been carried out vigorously, achieving many results, completing the investment and construction of a number of important projects of the province, creating a strong change in the entire political system, the trust and consensus of the majority of the people. However, in the context of many new regulations of the Land Law, the Public Investment Law and related laws, the implementation of Directive No. 08-CT/TU has given rise to shortcomings and limitations in site clearance work. Therefore, the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee found it necessary to issue a new policy to meet current practical requirements, emphasizing the need to focus on leadership and direction more drastically and effectively in site clearance work in the province.

After 3 years of implementing Directive No. 08-CT/TU, the whole province has completed land acquisition, compensation and resettlement support for 354 projects, with a total area of 1,083.2 hectares.

Quynh Phu - a bright spot in the movement to donate land to open roads

Sharing about the first days of implementing Directive No. 08-CT/TU in Quynh Phu district - a bright spot in the movement of donating land for road construction in Thai Binh, Mr. Nguyen Van Nhiem, Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, Chairman of the District People's Council said: Immediately after Directive No. 08-CT/TU was issued, the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee and the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee were very concerned and worried. How and how to make the Directive truly effective and create consensus among the people? We have carefully studied, seriously discussed and issued Conclusion Notice No. 220-TB/HU, dated July 13, 2021 of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee on mobilizing people to voluntarily and agree to contribute land use rights to the State without asking for them back to renovate, upgrade and expand roads. With the spirit of doing and learning from experience, after the initial success in the pilot commune of Quynh Ngoc, the district launched an emulation movement, spreading the spirit of donating land to open roads to the entire district. Up to now, donating land to build roads has become a movement, with a lively and widespread atmosphere throughout the district. In Quynh Phu today, whenever a road is built, people donate land, whether it is a provincial road, a district road, an inter-commune road, a village road or a main road in the field; some households contribute up to nearly ^300m2 of residential land or over ^2,000m2 of agricultural land, some households donate land worth over 2 billion VND... Up to now, the whole district has had more than 7,000 families voluntarily donating land use rights to the State with an area of over 50 hectares, worth nearly 800 billion VND.

Spreading the spirit of Directive No. 08-CT/TU

From the bright spot of Quynh Phu, the movement of donating land to build roads has spread to many other localities in the province. Up to now, in many localities, people and households have actively participated in the movement of donating land to build roads. The appearance of the countryside is gradually changing dramatically.

Lien Ha Thai Industrial Park (Thai Thuy) has a total land acquisition area of 588.84 hectares for 4 enterprises and 3,603 households, including rice fields for 3,207 households, converted land and riverside alluvial land for 332 households, and residential land for 64 households. After nearly 3 years of implementation, Thai Thuy district has basically completed the land acquisition for the above project, with only remaining issues related to residential land for some households and land for 2 enterprises.

Mr. Pham Van Chung, Permanent Vice Chairman of Thai Thuy District People's Committee said: Realizing the importance of site clearance work as a prerequisite, important step, deciding the success of the project, the district mobilized the participation of the entire political system. The district has established a steering committee, site clearance council, assigned tasks to each Party Committee member, head of departments, branches, and organizations in charge of the area and field to focus on directing, inspecting, and urging implementation. Every week, the District People's Committee holds meetings to evaluate results, progress, grasp difficulties and obstacles, and promptly discuss solutions to ensure the site clearance progress according to plan. In addition, the district has implemented many flexible and creative solutions from mobilizing people, propagating, conveying policies on site clearance as well as the socio-economic efficiency of the project to create high consensus among the people.

According to the report, after 3 years of implementing Directive No. 08-CT/TU, up to now, the People's Committees of districts and cities have completed land acquisition, compensation and resettlement support for 354 projects, with a total area of 1,083.2 hectares; of which 37 projects were voluntarily donated by the people with an area of 39.7 hectares. 135 projects with a total area of nearly 2,500 hectares are being implemented; of which, the area of completed land acquisition is over 1,500 hectares, the area of continuing land acquisition is nearly 950 hectares.

The "key" to solving difficulties in site clearance work

In the context of the promulgation of many new regulations of the Land Law, the Public Investment Law and related laws, the implementation of Directive No. 08-CT/TU has created shortcomings and limitations in site clearance work, so it is necessary to issue a resolution of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on focusing on leadership and direction of site clearance work in the province. Resolution No. 10-NQ/TU of the Provincial Party Standing Committee emphasizes more focus on leadership and direction of site clearance work, in which the role and responsibility of local Party committees and authorities, especially the leaders, are highlighted.

Comrade Nguyen Khac Than, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, said: In addition to the achieved results, the site clearance work in some localities, agencies and units still has many shortcomings and limitations, not meeting the set requirements, the site clearance work is still a "bottleneck" for the socio-economic development of the province. Resolution No. 10-NQ/TU emphasized the viewpoint of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee requiring more focused, drastic and effective leadership and direction in site clearance work. Site clearance work must be identified as a key political task; the responsibility of local Party committees and authorities; at the same time, the responsibility of the entire political system where the project is located and the responsibility of relevant agencies, units and functional forces. As a result, the progress of site clearance is a measure to assess the leadership and implementation capacity of local Party committees and authorities, especially the capacity of the head. Resolution No. 10-NQ/TU also emphasized the viewpoint of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on land donation in site clearance work, in the spirit of propaganda and mobilization to create consensus among the people, creating a mechanism to encourage and spread the voluntary movement of "land donation", "land donation plus assets on land", thereby bringing positive and specific effects in localities. It requires innovation in leadership methods, strengthening and improving the capacity of units performing site clearance tasks; as well as allocating resources to carry out site clearance tasks to create clean land funds...

Hopefully, with the focused leadership, direction, drastic participation, serious and effective implementation of local Party committees and authorities, agencies and units in the whole province in implementing Resolution No. 10-NQ/TU of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, it will create a strong change, remove "bottlenecks" and obstacles in site clearance work, creating a premise to promote socio-economic development in the coming time.