THE MINISTRY OF CONSTRUCTION - THE GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ORGANIZATION AND PERSONNEL
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 02/2002/TTLT/BXD-BTCCBCP
Hanoi, March 08, 2002
 
JOINT CIRCULAR
GUIDING THE CLASSIFICATION OF URBAN CENTERS AND URBAN MANAGEMENT LEVELS
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No.15/CP of March 4, 1994 defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Construction;
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No.181/CP of November 9, 1994 defining the functions, tasks and organizational structure of the Government Commission for Organization and Personnel;
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No.72/2001/ND-CP of October 5, 2001 on the classification of urban centers and urban management levels;
The Ministry of Construction and the Government Commission for Organization and Personnel hereby jointly provide guidance on the classification of urban centers and urban management levels as follows:
I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. Urban centers
An urban center is a concentrated population quarter fully meeting the two following conditions:
1.1. Regarding the management level, it is a city, provincial town or district township founded by decision of the competent State agency;
1.2. Regarding the development level, it must satisfy the following criteria:
- Being a general center or specialized center, playing the role of promoting socio-economic development of the whole country or a certain territorial region such as an inter-provincial region, a provincial region, a centrally-run city or a region inside a province or centrally-run city; a district region or sub- region in a district;
- For an inner city, inner town or township, the non-agricultural labor must represent at least 65% of the total labor force; the infrastructures in service of population’s activities must be up to at least 70% of the standards and norms of construction planning design prescribed for each type of urban centers; the population must be at least 4,000 people and the population density must be at least 2,000 people/km2.
- For special cases mentioned in Article 14 of the Government's Decree No.72/2001/ND-CP of October 5, 2001 on the classification of urban centers and urban management levels (hereafter called Decree No. 72/2001/ND-CP for short), the urban center-classification criteria may be lower.
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