Da Nang City People's Committee has just issued Directive No. 06/CT-UBND in 2026 on strengthening the effectiveness and efficiency of state management in the field of natural resources and minerals in the area.
This move was made in the context that the city sets a double-digit annual growth target, leading to a large demand for construction materials to serve key projects. Meanwhile, the material market still faces a shortage of supply, illegal exploitation, unserious law compliance and sometimes loose management coordination.
The Chairman of Da Nang City People's Committee requested heads of relevant departments, agencies, and chairmen of People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones to synchronously implement solutions to tighten the management of natural resources and minerals. Notably, if violations occur, the heads of agencies and localities must be responsible to the Secretary of the City Party Committee, the Chairman of the City People's Committee and before the law.
At the grassroots level, the People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones are assigned to strictly manage the activities of recovering, exploring, and exploiting minerals and wharves and yards in the area. Localities must proactively review the demand for mineral use, propose supplementary planning of auction or non-auction areas for mining rights, and at the same time arrange forces to prevent and clear illegal mining, confiscate tools and means of violation.
The Department of Agriculture and Environment is assigned to preside over advising on the auction plan for mineral exploitation rights to ensure timeliness, publicity, and transparency. All winning mines must be put into operation soon; mines not on the list of non-auction obligations must be auctioned publicly.
The city also requests to promote the delimitation of auction and non-auction areas to supplement periodically in June and December every year. Many stone mines with exploitation licenses expiring in December 2025 have just been delimitated areas without auctioning exploitation rights in order to soon put mines back into operation.
Along with that, the Department of Construction must advise on management and announce material prices at the mine; the Department of Industry and Trade inspects mineral processing facilities that do not have legal origin, outdated technology, cause pollution and strictly manage industrial explosives.
Da Nang City Police are required to develop a specialized topic to inspect and strictly handle violations in the field of minerals. In particular, not to let speculation, stockpiling, and illegal price increases occur for gold, leveling land, sand, and gravel in riverbeds.
Project investors must clearly identify the source of materials right from the stage of preparing feasibility study reports, avoiding material shortages that slow down progress. Licensed mining enterprises must install and maintain weighing and measuring equipment with automatic data connection to control output, and fully fulfill their obligations to improve and restore the environment and close mines according to regulations.
