Basic principles in planning activities follow Vietnam Planning Law 2017

I. According to the provisions of Article 4 of the 2017 Planning Law, the basic principles in planning activities are as follows:

1. Comply with the provisions of this Law, other relevant laws and international treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a member.

2. Ensure consistency and synchronization between planning and socio-economic development strategies and plans, ensuring combination of industry management with territorial management; ensure national defense and security; environmental protection.

3. Ensure compliance, continuity, inheritance, stability, and hierarchy in the national planning system.

4. Ensuring people's participation and participation of agencies, organizations, communities and individuals; ensure harmony of the interests of the nation, regions, localities and the interests of the people, in which national interests are the highest; ensure the principle of gender equality.

5. Ensure scientificity, application of modern technology, interconnection, forecasting, feasibility, savings and effective use of the country's resources; ensure objectivity, openness, transparency, and conservation.

6. Ensure independence between the planning agency and the Planning Appraisal Council.

7. Ensure resources to implement planning.

8. Ensure unified state management of planning, decentralization, and reasonable decentralization of power among state agencies.

II. About hNational planning system - Planning Law 2017

1. National level planning.

National planning includes national master planning, national marine spatial planning, national land use planning, and national sector planning.

2. Regional planning.

3. Provincial planning.

4. Planning of special administrative - economic units.

Planning for special administrative-economic units is prescribed by the National Assembly.

5. Urban planning, rural planning.