Land and project hold

(Baonghean) -Currently, many industrial parks and projects have compensated for site clearance and reclaimed farmers' production land, but it has not been used, left vacant for many years, while farmers have no land to cultivate, causing great waste of a national resource.

However, it is also necessary to recognize the difference between holding land for future projects according to planning and projects that have been granted land but not implemented (suspended projects).

It is necessary to keep land according to the planning as a reserve land source for the future. If we do not do this well, in the future there will be no more advantageous land for large projects. In the past, although the National Assembly has not agreed to establish the North-South high-speed railway project, the Government has also planned to keep land for this project. This is a necessary and responsible work with strategic vision of the Government. In fact, in recent years, in some big cities, the most expensive roads in the world have had to be built due to the high compensation for land clearance. Some figures show that the cost of highways in Vietnam is twice that of the world, mainly due to compensation for land clearance. However, in order not to waste national resources, while there are no investment projects in the planned reserve land areas for compensation, people should continue to cultivate in that area under appropriate agreements so that when there is a project, land recovery can be carried out easily.

In the case of enterprises that do not have financial resources but still apply for land to establish projects, the purpose is to keep the land, this is an act that needs to be condemned, and the land must be recovered, if the commitment when establishing the project is not fulfilled. This way, we can avoid speculation, land lease rights, and private profits. Converting agricultural land to non-agricultural land is an objective requirement. The problem is to use land effectively, avoiding waste.

Here we would like to discuss some issues that do not directly contribute to economic growth, but play an important indirect role in economic growth, social development and social security implementation in Vinh City and Nghe An (can also be used as reference for other cities).

- Open more traffic routes. While there is no capital for implementation, it is necessary to plan immediately, including spontaneously formed roads with rural appearance, winding in some places, big and small, interspersed with residential areas in the current wards. While there is no capital for implementation, it is necessary to plan and it is best to allocate capital for clearance as soon as possible, because the later the clearance becomes more difficult, and the cost of clearance increases.

- Plan and build a good drainage system, clean water supply system, and electricity system throughout the city, avoiding the situation of demolishing and rebuilding too much, causing waste, loss of urban beauty, flooding, water shortages, power outages, and fires that have occurred over the years.

- Build central areas in each ward to keep cars from increasing in the next few years, with no parking space, forcing cars to park on the street, causing traffic accidents and traffic jams like in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City today.

- Do not grant industrial projects along the Lam River dike, especially the section from Ben Thuy Bridge to Cua Hoi, but reserve this area for eco-tourism like Da Nang City did along the Han River.

- Increase garbage disposal sites and build public toilets in the city, following the method of State investment and private management and maintenance like in Japan, which currently has the best public toilet system in the world.

- Plant more trees and grass in the city, especially vacant lots. Do not fill in or level the remaining lakes in the city, but clean them up. Reserve more land for planting trees and small parks in the direction of green architecture, creating "green lungs" for the city like some countries in the world.

These are necessary tasks to make Vinh City worthy of a first-class urban area, an economic, cultural and educational center of the North Central region as concluded by the Politburo in recent years.

Dr. Duong Xuan Thao (Principal of Nghe An College of Economics and Technology)