Vice Governor Quach Tat Liem: Land Acquisition Standoffs Must Not Delay Key Infrastructure Projects

Municipalities and line sectors must not allow land acquisition and site clearance gridlocks to stall the execution velocity of key infrastructure portfolios. This was the strict mandate delivered by Vice Governor Quach Tat Liem—Member of the Provincial Party Committee—during an executive summit held on the afternoon of June 12, 2026. The high-level session was specifically convened to untangle deep administrative bottlenecks regarding land compensation, resettlement support, and site clearance across the Hoa Binh region.

The assembly gathered directors from line departments, the Hoa Binh Regional Project Management Board, the Hoa Binh Land Fund Development Center, and chief representatives from local governments where the strategic corridors navigate.

Vice Governor Quach Tat Liem delivers his keynote directive, ordering immediate administrative resolutions for site clearance bottlenecks.

During the executive debriefing, the Hoa Binh Regional Project Management Board reported that it is currently driving land acquisition, compensation, and resettlement frameworks for 3 major transport projects.

The first is the Arterial Link connecting Tran Hung Dao Road to Dan Chu Ward and National Highway 6. Spanning a total length of approximately 4.36 kilometers, the project requires the recovery of over 21.5 hectares of land, directly impacting 340 households, individuals, and organizations. To date, compensation has been successfully disbursed to 269 households, enabling the handover of 16.8 hectares of clean site. However, the final layout remains gridlocked due to a segment of non-cooperative landholders who are actively obstructing boundary staking and cadastral surveying, alongside disputes regarding plot sizes, historical land origins, and compensation metrics.

The second portfolio is the Hoa Binh Regional Transport and Irrigation Network Integration Project, a multi-sector development connected directly to the national transport infrastructure system. This massive project requires the acquisition of nearly 76 hectares of land, affecting over 1,500 households and entities. While asset inventorying and compensation indexing have been finalized across multiple zones, the project has hit major roadblocks. These include severe discrepancies between official cadastral maps and actual land-use realities, title-deed anomalies, a severe deficit of grassroots cadastral surveyors, and a coordination gap where resettlement zone construction lags behind site clearance velocity. Furthermore, relocating technical infrastructure—particularly high-voltage power grids—and establishing dedicated cemetery zones for grave relocations face significant logistical delays.

The third project is the QH8 Boulevard to An Duong Vuong Road Link, covering a total footprint of 5.17 hectares and affecting 221 households. Compensation has been disbursed to 144 households with an accumulated value exceeding 13.8 billion VND, securing over 4 hectares of clear ground. Nevertheless, numerous parcels remain gridlocked due to delayed compensation appraisals or unverified land origins stemming from successive, unrecorded land transfers across multiple generations of informal owners.

During the panel debates, delegates scrutinized the root causes of these delays and formulated immediate remedies. Experts recommended tightening cross-agency coordination between specialized land agencies and grassroots authorities to verify true land histories. They also urged for expedited appraisal workflows for compensation plans, the deployment of supplementary cadastral officers to high-volume zones, the rapid completion of synchronized resettlement grids, and the prompt issuance of legal guidelines for utility relocation.

Concluding the summit, Vice Governor Quach Tat Liem re-emphasized that these developments represent key provincial portfolios that are critical to expanding the transport grid and driving macroeconomic growth. He strictly ordered all departments and municipal councils to elevate their sense of accountability and decisively clear all outstanding barriers.

To concrete these directives, the Vice Governor mandated that local authorities upscale grassroots propaganda to forge solid public consensus, rapidly finalize legal records for resettlement packages, and accelerate the engineering of resettlement housing. He demanded seamless, synchronized coordination across all public units to resolve emerging anomalies on the spot, pushing all administrative machineries to completely wrap up all land acquisition and site clearance protocols no later than July 2026.

Manh Hung