THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom – Happiness
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No. 310/QD-TTg
Hanoi, April 17, 2000
 
DECISION
RATIFYING THE OVERALL PROJECT ON DEVELOPMENT OF DEFENSE- ECONOMIC ZONE OF MUONG CHA, LAI CHAU PROVINCE
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government of September 30, 1992;
Pursuant to the Investment and Construction Management Regulation issued together with the Government’s Decree No.52/1999/ND-CP of July 8, 1999;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister’s Decision No.277/2000/QD-TTg of March 31, 2000 approving the overall scheme on the army’s participation in the socio-economic construction and development of extremely difficult, deep-lying and remote communes in combination with the building of defense and security zones in strategic border and coastal areas;
At the proposals of the Ministry of Defense (Report No.2997/QP of October 15, 1999) and the Ministry of Planning and Investment (Report No.1171-BKH/VPTD of March 2, 2000),
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To ratify the overall project on development of defense-economic zone of Muong Cha, Lai Chau province with the following major contents:
1. The project’s name: Development of defense- economic zone of Muong Cha, Lai Chau province.
2. The project managing agency: The Ministry of Defense.
3. The investor: The Command of Military Zone No.2, the Ministry of Defense.
4. The project implementation duration: 10 years, from 2000 to 2009.
5. Objectives:
a/ To boost the socio-economic development, contributing to raising the ethnic minority people�s living standards in combination with the maintenance of national defense and security on the basis of settling population according to the production plan and long-term defense and security objectives of forming clusters of border villages and communes, creating a border belt in the defense disposition of the entire people safeguarding the Fatherland.
b/ To realize the sedentarization, receive people migrating from other regions for socio-economic development in association with job generation as well as hunger elimination and poverty alleviation for family households in the project area.
c/ To exploit to the utmost the allotted land so as to organize production along the line of developing the commodity economy with industrial trees, fruit trees, husbandry, forest planting and protection; to ensure that people have stable income sources, thus contributing to the building of border communes with economic, cultural and social development.
d/ To protect the environment, maintain the ecological balance through planting, zoning and protecting forests, and using natural resources in a sustainable and reasonable manner.
6. Location and land:
a/ Location: The project’s objectives shall be realized in the entire project area, encompassing 5 border communes: Cha Nua, Cha Cang and Si Pa Phin of Muong Lay district, and Muong Toong and Muong Nhe of Muong Te district, Lai Chau province.
b/ Land: The total project area is 222,177 ha; the project construction area is 12,072 ha.
7. Investment contents:
- Grade-6 motor roads in mountainous region and rural traffic roads of 2.5 m wide;
- Suspension bridge for pedestrians;
- Building and upgrading irrigation projects;
- Rural clean water projects;
- Building dwelling houses, working offices, infirmaries and concentrated production areas (plant nurseries, cattle ranching areas) of Group 379;
- Planting tea and other industrial trees;
- Planting forests (including rare and precious trees like fokienia hodginsii, ironwood, teak...) and zoning forests for protection;
- Building tea- and bio-fertilizer- processing establishments;
- Supporting family households (including the local households and immigrant households) to stabilize their life;
- Allotting forestrial and agricultural land and managing the project.
8. The total investment capital is 198,504 million dong.
This total investment capital shall serve as basis for elaboration of specific investment projects to be submitted to the competent authorities for ratification according to the current regulations on investment and construction management.
9. Capital sources and investment mechanism

a/ Budget capital: