On June 16, 2022, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee adopted Resolution 18-NQ/TW on “continuing to renew and improve institutions and policies to raise the effectiveness and efficiency of land management and use, creating a momentum for Vietnam to become a high-income developed country” with many new breakthrough ideas.

On June 16, 2022, the fifth plenum of the 13th Party Central Committee adopted Resolution 18/NQ-TW on continuing to renew and improve institutions and policies to raise the effect and efficiency of land management and use, creating the motive force for our country to become a high-income developed country. Below are excerpts of the Resolution.

Ho Chi Minh City has adjusted urban planning to develop riverside infrastructure by 2040, including a road along the Saigon river from district 1 to outlying Cu Chi district.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has released a draft decree on sea encroachment, proposing regulations on sea encroachment areas and sea encroachment plans, the licensing of sea encroachment as well as the management and use of land areas reclaimed due to sea encroachment.

Vietnam’s laws on waste disposal at sea put the marine ecosystem, aquatic resources and people’s livelihoods under severe threat, according to experts.

The Prime Minister makes the exploitation of endangered precious and rare fauna and flora species and those species protected by law in natural protective forests unlawful.

On criteria for classification of protective forests