Strengthening Security and Order in Land Acquisition and Site Clearance

On the afternoon of June 1, the Provincial People’s Committee organized a hybrid (in-person combined with virtual) conference on safeguarding security and order in land acquisition and site clearance. The convention aims to fuel socio-economic development and directly contribute to the triumphant fulfillment of the province’s double-digit macroeconomic growth target.

Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee Tran Duy Dong delivers his keynote directing address at the conference.

Mr. Tran Duy Dong—Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, and Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee—attended and delivered the keynote address. Also present were Members of the Standing Board of the Provincial Party Committee: Mr. Phan Trong Tan (Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee) and Major General Nguyen Minh Tuan (Director of the Provincial Police Department), alongside representatives from the Bureau of Domestic Security (Ministry of Public Security) and leaders from various provincial departments, sectors, mass organizations, and local jurisdictions.

Since the historic milestone of the provincial consolidation, Phu Tho has deployed site clearance pipelines for 462 projects, representing an aggregate reclaimed land footprint of nearly 5,500 hectares. Within this portfolio, 49 projects have fully completed compensation and site clearance architectures, covering nearly 2,600 hectares (achieving approximately 47% of the total area), while 413 projects are actively undergoing site clearance deployment, spanning nearly 2,900 hectares. The tight maintenance of social security and order during site clearance has been instrumental in expediting socio-economic development project timelines across various jurisdictions.

The convention is broadcasted virtually to all communal and ward-level bridge points across the province.

While the tight maintenance of social security and order during site clearance has successfully expedited socio-economic project timelines across various jurisdictions, the landscape remains fraught with multi-dimensional bottlenecks. Certain local authorities exhibit passivity in mobilizing forces to guarantee security during land acquisitions, leading to prolonged, complicated petitioning and disputes that risk escalating into localized flashpoints.

On behalf of the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security, Lieutenant Colonel Le Ngoc Giap—Deputy Director of the Bureau of Domestic Security—highly appraised Phu Tho’s concrete, highly efficient solutions in keeping order during site clearance. He requested involved agencies and the Provincial Police to substantively deploy standard crowd management and crowd control protocols; organize specialized training sessions, joint drills, and post-action reviews to resolve incidents swiftly and accurately, ensuring no fresh flashpoints emerge.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee Phan Trong Tấn moderates the panel discussion session at the conference.

The Deputy Director emphasized upscaling the efficiency of public relations, increasing transparent face-to-face dialogues, and publicly disclosing project matrices, compensation land prices, resettlement policies, and social welfare programs so citizens clearly comprehend their statutory rights and obligations. He noted that the long-term strategic milestone must establish that “project success” is defined not merely by hitting execution deadlines but crucially by preventing the emergence of flashpoints and denying hostile forces any opportunity for exploitation and subversion.

Concluding the conference, Chairman Tran Duy Dong powerfully anchored the province’s iron standpoint: placing citizens' benefits at the center, securing absolute harmony of interests among the State, the developer, and the public through transparent, equitable compensation frameworks; and fiercely maintaining security to eliminate prolonged litigations that malicious elements could exploit to incite unrest.

The Chairman demanded local Party committees and authorities to strictly categorize site clearance as a primary political mandate, leading with extreme drastic measures to untangle localized bottlenecks. Acting upon Resolution No. 29/2026/QH16 of the National Assembly, jurisdictions must rigorously audit, classify, and apply specific exceptional policy mechanisms to definitively settle legacy, prolonged projects and land infringements committed prior to the official enforcement date of the 2024 Land Law.

Major General Nguyen Minh Tuan—Director of the Provincial Police Department—addresses the assembly.

Concurrently, local apparatuses must upgrade the capacity of professional land clearance task forces, strictly executing the principles of absolute public transparency during physical asset inventories and land origin verifications. All petitions and grievances must be decisively resolved right at their inception without avoidance or buck-passing. Most importantly, local managers must enforce ironclad land administration—detecting, blocking, and strictly penalizing cases of illegal land encroachment, construction, or unauthorized asset creation on zoned and earmarked project lands.

For line departments and sectors, the Chairman ordered a proactive overhaul of resettlement and compensation mechanisms to timely advise the Provincial People’s Committee on unlocking bottlenecks for mega-projects or large-scale land acquisitions. He demanded higher-quality counseling and rigorous civil service inspections to catch state management flaws early across land, investment, and construction sectors. Furthermore, line departments must partner with the police forces to conduct comprehensive security impact assessments for highly sensitive dossiers.

Operating as the vanguard force, the Provincial Police Department must master the situation from early on, from afar, and directly from the grassroots. The police force is directed to thoroughly audit key projects and areas prone to high-risk disputes or litigations to provide timely intervention blueprints, ensuring no “flashpoints” can take root.

The panoramic layout of the high-level governance conference.

The police must prioritize mass mobilization to ensure public compliance, minimizing the necessity for administrative enforcement or compulsory evictions. In cases where enforcement is unavoidable, the force must strictly adhere to the Ministry of Public Security’s formal protocols governing security and order during compulsory evictions and project construction, while dynamically tailoring security plans to each specific project layout. Ultimately, grassroots police forces are commanded to closely monitor malicious actors, proactively preventing and severely prosecuting any elements exploiting site clearance to incite riots, disturb public order, assault civil servants, or sabotage project execution timelines.

Dinh Vu