According to the Government's report, in the period from 2021 to present, to promote socio-economic development after the COVID-19 pandemic, the Party Central Committee, the National Assembly, and the Government have had many fiscal and monetary policies to support the socio-economic recovery and development program. At the same time, they have accelerated the implementation of important national projects and works, especially transport and energy infrastructure projects, including many projects outside the list of the Medium-Term Public Investment Plan for the period 2021-2025.
Currently, the Party Central Committee has approved the investment policy for the high-speed railway project on the North-South axis with a land use scale of about 10,827 hectares (the Government is expected to submit to the National Assembly for consideration and decision on the investment policy at the 8th Session), leading to increased demand for land use for important national infrastructure projects and works.
The Government will submit to the National Assembly adjustments to the National Land Use Plan for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050, with the main contents including:
Firstly, adjust 8 land use indicators including: Agricultural land group (rice land, special-use forest land, protective forest land, production forest land is natural forest); non-agricultural land group (national defense land, security land).
Second, the National Land Use Plan was not submitted to the National Assembly for approval.The calculation and determination of the eight land use indicators in the revised National Land Use Plan this time requires careful review and balancing of land use indicators of sectors, fields and localities.In particular, priority should be given to allocating land funds for national defense and security purposes, stabilizing rice-growing land funds to ensure national food security, strictly managing forest land, maintaining forest cover to contribute to protecting the ecological environment, responding to climate change and achieving sustainable development goals.
Examining this content, Chairman of the Economic Committee of the National Assembly Vu Hong Thanh said that the Standing Committee of the Economic Committee found that the Government's proposal to adjust the national land use planning was consistent with the requirements of the National Assembly in Resolution No. 103/2023/QH15, especially in the context that our country is preparing to implement a number of important national projects in the transport sector (such as the North-South high-speed railway project).
Therefore, the Standing Committee of the Economic Committee agrees with the need to adjust the national land use planning based on the grounds and contents as stated in the Government's Proposal and at the same time requests clarification on how many provincial plans, national sectoral plans or other relevant plans must be adjusted in case the National Assembly decides to adjust the national land use planning to ensure consistency and impact of the adjustment. At the same time, continue to review and clarify the causes, especially subjective causes leading to the proposed adjustment of land use planning indicators to ensure that they are close to practical needs.
Speaking, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man emphasized that according to the provisions of the Land Law, the review and adjustment of national land use planning, national defense and security... must be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the law on planning. For localities, the National Assembly Chairman noted that three plans must be synchronous. The first is land use planning; the second is construction planning and the third is socio-economic planning. The Government and ministries need to direct and guide localities to synchronously implement according to the general direction of the Central Government in implementing legal policies on planning in the national land planning.
