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THE
GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
72/2001/ND-CP
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Hanoi,
October 05, 2001
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DECREE
ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF URBAN CENTERS AND URBAN MANAGEMENT
LEVELS
THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the
Government of September 30, 1992;
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of People’s Councils and People’s
Committees of June 21, 1994;
At the proposals of the Minister of Construction and the Minister-Director of
the Government Commission for Organization and Personnel,
DECREES:
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- Scope of
regulation
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Article 2.- Aims of the
classification of urban centers and determination of urban management levels
The classification of urban centers and
determination of urban management levels aim to lay the foundation for:
1. Organizing, arranging and developing the
urban system throughout the country;
2. Decentralizing urban management;
3. Working out, considering and approving urban
construction plannings;
4. Formulating a system of legal documents,
criteria, policies and mechanisms for management of urban development.
Article 3.- Urban
centers and basic factors for classifying urban centers
1. Urban centers include cities, provincial
towns and district townships established under decisions of competent State
agencies.
2. The basic factors for classifying urban
centers include:
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b/ The non-agricultural labor represents at
least 65% of the total labor force;
c/ The infrastructures in service of
population’s activities must be at least 70% up to the standards and norms
prescribed for each type of urban centers;
d/ The population size must be at least of 4,000
people;
e/ The population density conforms to the size,
nature and characteristics of each type of urban centers.
3. The urban center classification criteria,
which aim to concretize the factors prescribed in Clause 2 of this Article,
shall be applicable to inner cities, inner provincial and district townships.
Article 4.- Classification
of urban centers and urban management levels
1. Urban centers are classified into 6 grades,
namely: special-grade, grade-I, grade-II, grade-III, grade-IV and grade-V urban
centers.
2. Urban management levels include:
a/ Centrally-run cities;
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c/ District townships.
Article 5.- Founding of
new urban centers and classification of newly founded urban centers
1. To be-founded urban centers must meet the
following conditions:
a/ Having the basic factors for classifying
urban centers as prescribed in Article 3 of this Decree;
b/ Having the general plannings on urban
construction approved by competent State agencies.
2. The People’s Committee of a province or
centrally-run city shall organize the compilation of dossier on founding a new
urban center, which is composed of the plan for separation, merger,
dissolution, or readjustment of administrative boundaries, of urban centers,
which is related to the founding of the new urban center and approved by the
People’s Council of the province or centrally-run city, then submit it to the
competent State agency for decision.
3. The recognition of newly founded urban
centers shall be effected after the decisions on founding of new urban centers
are issued by competent State management agencies.
Article 6.- Division of
inner cities, inner towns and suburban and outlying areas
Cities are divided into inner cities and
outlying areas (hereinafter referred to as inner cities and suburbs for short).
Provincial towns are divided into inner towns and outlying areas (hereinafter
referred to as inner towns and outskirts for short). District townships have no
outlying areas.
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1. Suburbs and outskirts have the following
functions:
a/ Situating key technical infrastructure
projects, population quarters, sanitation and environmental protection works;
production, service, medical, training and scientific research establishments
and other special establishments which cannot be located in inner cities and
inner towns.
b/ Situating convalescent establishments;
sight-seeing sites and tourist resorts; greenery belts and forest parks for
environmental protection and ecological balance;
c/ Reserving land for urban expansion and
development.
2. Size of suburbs or outskirts shall be
determined on the following bases:
a/ Positions and characteristics of urban
centers;
b/ Population size of inner cities or inner
towns;
c/ Development levels of communications infrastructure
linking inner cities or inner towns with their vicinities;
d/ Links between inner cities or inner towns and
neighboring areas;
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f/ Rational organization of urban administrative
management units;
g/ Development requirements of functions of
suburbs or town outskirts in support of the development of inner cities or
inner towns according to the urban construction plannings approved by competent
State agencies.
Chapter II
CLASSIFICATION OF URBAN
CENTERS
Article 8.-
Special-grade urban centers
Special-grade urban centers must satisfy the
following criteria:
1. Being the national capital or an urban center
with the function as a political, economic, cultural, scientific-technical,
training, tourist and service center, a traffic hub, and a domestic and
international exchange center, and playing the role of boosting the
socio-economic development of the whole country;
2. The non-agricultural labor represents 90% of
the total labor force or higher;
3. Having an infrastructure built basically
synchronously and completely;
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5. Having an average population density of
15,000 people/km2 or more.
Article 9.- Grade-I
urban centers
Grade-I urban centers must satisfy the following
criteria:
1. Being an urban center with the function as a
political, economic, cultural, scientific-technical, tourist and service
center, a traffic hub, and a domestic and international exchange center, and
playing the role of boosting the socio-economic development of an
inter-provincial region or the whole country;
2. The non-agricultural labor represents 85% the
total labor force or higher;
3. Having an infrastructure built synchronously
and completely in many aspects;
4. Having a population of 500,000 or more;
5. Having an average population density of
12,000 people/km2 or more.
Article 10.- Grade-II
urban centers
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1. Being an urban center with the function as a
political, economic, cultural, scientific-technical, tourist and service
center, a traffic hub and an exchange center of a province, inter-provincial
region or in the whole country, and playing the role of boosting the
socio-economic development of an inter-provincial region or the whole country
in several domains;
2. The non-agricultural labor represents 80% of
the total labor force or higher;
3. Having an infrastructure built in many
sectors and becoming synchronous and complete;
4. Having a population of 250,000 or more;
5. Having an average population density of
10,000 people/km2 or more.
Article 11.- Grade-III
urban centers
Grade-III urban centers must satisfy the
following criteria:
1. Being an urban center with the function as a
political, economic, cultural, scientific-technical and service center, a
traffic hub and an exchange center of a province or inter-provincial region,
and playing the role of boosting the socio-economic development of a province
or an inter-provincial region in several domains;
2. The non-agricultural labor represents 75% the
total labor force or higher;
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4. Having a population of 100,000 or more;
5. Having an average population density of 8,000
people/km2 or more.
Article 12.- Grade-IV
urban centers
Grade-IV urban centers must satisfy the
following criteria:
1. Being an urban center with the function as a
general or specialized center in political, economic, cultural, scientific-technical
and service domains, a traffic hub and an exchange center of a province, and
playing the role of boosting the socio-economic development of a province or a
region within a province;
2. The non-agricultural labor represents 70% of
the total labor force or higher;
3. Having an infrastructure, which has been or
is synchronously and completely built in each specific sector;
4. Having a population of 50,000 or more;
5. Having an average population density of 6,000
people/km2 or more.
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Grade-V urban centers must satisfy the following
criteria:
1. Being an urban center with the function as a
general or specialized center in political, economic, cultural and service
domains, and playing the role of boosting the socio-economic development of a
district or a cluster of communes;
2. The non-agricultural labor represents 65% of
the total labor force or higher;
3. Having an infrastructure, which has been or
is currently built but not yet synchronous and complete;
4. Having a population of 4,000 or more;
5. Having an average population density of 2,000
people/km2 or more.
Article 14.- Urban
classification criteria applicable to special cases (for a number of grade-III,
grade-IV and grade-V urban centers)
1. For urban centers in mountainous regions,
highland, deep-lying and remote areas and islands, the criteria prescribed for
each grade of urban centers may be lower but at least equal to 70% of the
criteria prescribed in Articles 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of this Decree.
2. For urban centers with functions as vacation,
tourist and convalescent places, and those exclusively for scientific research
and training purposes, the criteria on permanently-residing population size may
be lower but at least equal to 70% of the prescribed level. Particularly, the
criteria on average population density applicable to vacation, tourist and
convalescent urban centers may be lower but at least equal to 50% of the levels
prescribed in Articles 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of this Decree.
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1. The Government shall decide on the
recognition of special-grade urban centers at the proposals of the Construction
Minister and the People’s Committees of the centrally-run cities.
2. The Prime Minister shall decide on the
recognition of urban centers of grade I and grade II at the proposals of the
Construction Minister and the People’s Committees of the provinces or
centrally-run cities.
3. The Construction Minister shall decide on the
recognition of urban centers of grade III and grade IV at the proposals of the
People’s Committees of the provinces or centrally-run cities.
4. The People’s Committees of the provinces or
centrally-run cities shall decide on the recognition of urban centers of grade
V at the proposals of the district People’s Committees after approving the
construction planning and the urban development plans for residential areas or
communes, where district townships are proposed to be founded.
Chapter III
URBAN MANAGEMENT LEVELS
Article 16.- Bases for
determining urban management levels
Bases for determining urban management levels
include:
1. According to the urban classification, as
follows:
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b/ The provincially-run cities must be urban
centers of grade II or grade III;
c/ The provincial towns or the centrally-run
cities towns must be urban centers of grade III or grade IV;
d/ The district townships must be urban centers
of grade IV or grade V.
2. Requirements of the organization of the State
administrative management by territories.
3. The overall planning for socio-economic
development and the overall planning for urban development of the whole country
and the general planning for urban construction already ratified by the
competent State agencies.
Article 17.- Decision
on urban management levels
The decision on urban management levels shall be
made in compliance with the provisions of Clause 8, Article 2 of the Law on Organization
of the National Assembly and Clause 1, Article 16 of the Law on Organization of
the Government.
Chapter IV
IMPLEMENTATION
PROVISIONS
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This Decree replaces Decision No.132/HDBT of May
5, 1990 of the Council of Ministers (now the Government) and takes effect 15
days after its signing.
Article 19.-
Organization of implementation
1. The Construction Ministry, the Government
Commission for Organization and Personnel shall have to guide the
implementation of this Decree.
2. The ministers, the heads of the
ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached to the
Government and the presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and
centrally-run cities shall, within the ambit of their respective tasks and
powers, have to organize the implementation of this Decree.
ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT
PRIME MINISTER
Phan Van Khai