Hanoi allows implementing an independent resettlement project before approving the investment policy for large projects

For large and important projects, Hanoi requires an immediate assessment of resettlement needs to implement an independent compensation, assistance, and resettlement project before approving the investment policy.

Deputy Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee, Duong Duc Tuan, recently signed Plan No. 144 to implement Resolution No. 258 of the National Assembly, regarding a pilot set of mechanisms and policies to carry out large, important projects in the capital.

The plan aims to implement Resolution No. 258 promptly, consistently, and effectively after it takes effect. It specifies the special mechanisms allowed by the National Assembly and seeks to maximize the City government’s initiative and responsibility in deciding, approving, adjusting the investment policy, and selecting contractors and investors for large, important projects.

Implementation focus and legal preparation

At the same time, the plan calls for accelerating the preparation and deployment of key projects, removing difficulties and obstacles in practice, contributing to achieving socio-economic development goals and improving the effectiveness of state management by the City.

City leaders instruct the Departments, agencies, and district-level People’s Committees to draft and propose to the City People’s Committee and the City Council the necessary legal documents to implement the Resolution, ensuring a full legal basis, quality, and timeline as required. They also call for studying, reviewing, and proposing amendments or additions and issuing normative legal documents to implement Resolution No. 258.

Key timeline for 2026

In Q1 and Q2 of 2026, the plan requires building and issuing criteria to identify projects under Clause 2, Article 1 of Resolution No. 258. In 2026 and subsequent years, it calls for reviewing and listing investment projects within the management scope.

Units are also instructed to immediately organize the drafting of dossiers and documents for specific projects within the project scope in accordance with the National Assembly’s resolution and the City Council’s resolutions, enabling concrete planning for each project and ensuring early execution of the investment policy, project approval, groundbreaking, and implementation of large, important city projects.

Resettlement and land-related requirements before investment approval

When proposing projects to be implemented immediately under point a, Clause 2, Article 1 of Resolution No. 258, Hanoi’s People’s Committee requires Departments, agencies, and district-level People’s Committees to review, assess, and clarify the necessity, urgency, scope, land withdrawal boundaries, current land use status, scale, affected parties, resettlement needs, funding sources, and timelines.

Based on these assessments, the City requires the preparation of an Independent Compensation, Support, and Resettlement project before approving the investment policy. The Department of Agriculture and Environment is tasked with leading, coordinating with relevant units to compile projects for compensation, support, and independent resettlement, and with monitoring, urging, and providing periodic reporting to the City on outcomes.

Urban renovation and alignment with the master plan

Hanoi will also review and determine priority tasks to concretize the Capital’s master plan and develop plans for implementation according to functional responsibilities and jurisdiction.

In addition, City units are asked to immediately review and identify areas for urban renovation, redevelopment of old apartment buildings, or enlargement of urban blocks; study and determine project boundaries; list urban renovation projects; and ensure a full legal basis, feasibility, and alignment with the master plan.