Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha presents a report on the national land use planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050 and a five-year land use plan (2021-2025). (Photo: Van Diep/VNA)

According to the report, land planning aims to rationally allocate land to sectors and localities in accordance with the requirements of socio-economic development, infrastructure development, industrialization, and urbanization.

Minister Ha stressed the need to preserve 3.5 million hectares of rice land and a ensure stable forest coverage at 42-43%. The national plan on land use for infrastructure development by 2030 is 1.75 million hectares, an increase of more than 400 thousand hectares compared to 2020. To meet the need of urbanization rate of over 50%, the urban land use plan by 2030 will be 2.95 million hectares, an increase of nearly 930 thousand hectares compared to the present.

The report proposes six solutions, including fine-tuning policy of regulating land revenues in order to distribute them reasonably to create equal development resources, creating favorable conditions for land users to change their land use purpose to implement investment projects according to the planning, accelerating digital transformation, building and operating a unified and centralized land information system and database, and applying remote sensing technology and GIS in monitoring the implementation of plans.