This afternoon (May 13), the Presidential Office held a press conference to announce the President's Order announcing 9 laws just passed by the 16th National Assembly at the first session, including the revised Capital Law.
At the press conference, Deputy Minister of Justice Dang Hoang Oanh exchanged some contents of the revised Capital Law (Capital Law 2026).
Accordingly, the Capital Law 2026 consists of 9 Chapters, 36 Articles. The Law amends, supplements, and perfects a number of regulations in the Capital Law 2024 such as affirming the specific legal status of the Capital; the specific legal value, prioritized for application in the Capital of the Capital Law; explaining the terms clearly, applying uniformly, including new terms such as "low-altitude space", "high-altitude space".
The amended Law on regulations in the direction of thorough and comprehensive decentralization of power to the city government stipulates and decides on contents under its authority in areas to increase the proactiveness, creativity, autonomy, and self-responsibility of the city government, such as: organization, apparatus; budget revenue and expenditure, especially regulations creating conditions to attract resources for the Capital's development; implementation of planning, embellishment, and urban reconstruction; management and use of resources; application of digital technology, big data, artificial intelligence; development and linkage of the Capital region; development of health and culture; ensuring social order and safety, including the application of urgent administrative measures suitable to the position and role of the Capital.
At the same time, the Law supplements regulations on the principle of decentralization (Article 4) to ensure that decentralization is unified, smooth and effective; linking decentralization with power control and accountability; ensuring security, national defense, economy and sustainable development, protecting human rights and cultural identity.
In particular, the Law supplements regulations on the authority to build and promulgate legal normative documents (Article 8) of the Hanoi City government.
The Law also supplements regulations on piloting mechanisms and policies (Article 9) to establish a legal framework for testing new management and development models and solutions. Accordingly, the decision to pilot new mechanisms and policies, other than laws and resolutions of the National Assembly or for issues not yet regulated by law, is applied in the city. Based on the approval of competent authorities, the City People's Council issues a resolution to implement specific pilot mechanisms and policies.
The Law stipulates a number of contents and delegates authority to the city government to proactively issue regulations to mobilize resources for the development of the Capital in the fields of management and use of financial and budgetary resources; authority on investment; management, use, exploitation of public assets, infrastructure assets; management, protection, use of resources; attraction, valuation and development of human resources; attraction of investment, incentives, investment support, business development; development of free economic zones, free trade and new types of economy.
The law stipulates superior mechanisms for regional linkage and development in the direction of identifying Hanoi as the core, growth pole and driving force of the Capital region, the Red River Delta region, the Northern Midlands and Mountains region and the whole country.
