Faced with urgent demands for institutional reform, each official should not think about the pros and cons. The only way to move forward is to move forward, a bright future awaits us.
I still remember the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment established on August 5, 2002, where several General Departments and Departments under the Government or under other specialized Ministries were merged. This was the last Ministry established so that there would be no more General Departments under the Government, with the goal of upgrading the roadmap for sustainable development that was approved at the 1992 Global Summit in Rio De Janeiro (Brazil).
Human history has shown that since the end of the hunting and gathering period, humans have known how to use their labor to impact the land in the form of cultivation and animal husbandry to open up the agricultural era that lasted for five to seven thousand years.
Next, in the second half of the 18th century, the process of industrialization began, and after only 150 years, people realized that this process was associated with the exploitation of very limited natural resources in order to seek benefits. Since then, in 1992, the global community of nations agreed to change the way of exploiting natural resources in a way that does not harm the Earth's environment. Thus, the 1992 Global Summit was like a wake-up call for people to change the way of development or the way of getting rich in a sustainable way.
Since then, countless international conferences on sustainable development have been held around the world every year, and countries have set the task of strictly managing the exploitation of natural resources to protect the Earth's environment. Many countries have established the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, including Vietnam, to determine the right way to develop. Exploitation of natural resources is the cause and environmental quality is the result.
When the National Assembly decided to establish the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, I was chosen as Deputy Minister of the Ministry, as a representative with 5 years of working life left to assist the Minister in land and surveying and mapping issues. The Minister also assigned me to be in charge of these two areas of work. I was originally a bachelor of mathematics, then I chose to major in applied mathematics in geographic information research.
During my time at the General Department of Land Administration, I was assigned by the General Director to be in charge of science - technology and international cooperation. I found the work to be okay, not too heavy for my capacity. I directed and directly implemented the application of GPS global satellite positioning technology (to determine coordinates of points on the land surface), remote sensing technology to capture images of the land surface from moving devices to build a model of the Earth's surface, and GIS technology to build and operate geographic databases. I directed the construction of the VN-2000 National Reference System and Coordinate System to meet international technical standards, and the digital process to produce geographic information. The completion of so many tasks in 8 years also made me feel secure about the results of my labor.
Entering the operation of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, I had to take on additional work in the field of land management, which was previously very unfamiliar to me. Land management in our country at that time did not touch much on technology, but was mainly social and policy issues. At that time, I only saw one basic difficulty: land was an area that demonstrated the intense theoretical opposition between socialism and capitalism. What should I do in this "difficult situation"?
Furthermore, the immediate task is to build the 2003 Land Law to replace the 1993 Land Law, which still has many things that are not suitable for the market mechanism. Time is urgent, the work is complicated, and the theory is not really transparent. To do that, I have only one way left: to study, to study the legal structure; to study the impacts of the law on management officials, on the people, on the economic apparatus; to study how to write laws that are simple and easy to understand; to study to perceive how to overcome theoretical differences to find a "middle ground" that is acceptable from many sides. I have found a way to combine mathematical logic and dialectical logic to solve social problems related to land.
In fact, up to now, there has been no book written about land issues in countries with economies transitioning from a subsidized economy to a market economy. In the process of learning from friends, colleagues, experts, businesses, and people, I discovered two experts who have quite a deep understanding of land issues at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, namely Dr. Dang Kim Son and Dr. Nguyen Do Anh Tuan. I learned a lot from them during the process of building the 2003 Land Law. These are beautiful memories on the path of management in a country operating a transitional economy.
Currently, our Party and State are resolutely implementing the policy of institutional innovation, including the reorganization of the management apparatus. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment have merged into the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment. Each sector has a Department responsible for management, and the Department and sector carry out their own work according to the prescribed content, under the political leadership of the Minister.
Implementing the current institutional innovation policy, many people also have different opinions about the rationality of establishing new ministries. According to the thinking of the subsidized economy, these opinions are also reasonable, but we are borrowing the market mechanism to develop, so we need to change our thinking to the thinking of the market economy. Talking about the market economy, we must pay attention to the four laws of supply - demand, competition (healthy), value, and benefits. The organization of ministries in the economic sector must be such that the management linkage is easy and appropriate.
Faced with urgent demands for institutional reform, each official should not think about the pros and cons. The only way to move forward is to move forward, a bright future awaits us.
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