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The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nguyen Xuan Cuong, affirmed this point before the opinions of many deputies of the National Assembly mentioned that natural disasters and climate change are becoming more and more serious.
“Understanding the costs of deforestation”
Speaking at the session on the socio-economic situation in the National Assembly on the morning of November 3, delegate Phan Thai Binh (Quang Nam) expressed his appreciation to the leaders and people of the country in recent years. very interested and quickly shared with the people of Central Vietnam in general, as well as with Quang Nam in particular in search and rescue, overcoming the consequences of the floods.
Delegates proposed solutions to respond to catastrophic natural disasters caused by climate change. First of all, it is the supply of rice to ethnic minorities in mountainous areas so that people do not need to destroy the forests to cultivate, cultivate rice, to secure the forest area and preserve the stability of the forests. slopes, steep slopes.
Delegates also wanted to pay attention to and recommend to people in mountainous areas to build stilt houses in landslide areas, houseboats in flood-proof areas, and basements in areas facing storms and high winds.
In fact, agencies, offices and buildings such as schools, public offices have been used as effective storm shelters, delegates suggested, the state should have policies to invest in copper. A set of permanent structures with the aim of being able to combine to support people who experience natural disasters, evenly distributed in risk areas with many difficulties in people’s lives.
Mr. Binh also proposed to review the system of small and medium hydroelectric dams throughout the country to assess the impact capacity in case of floods and storms.
Delegate Hoang Quoc Thang (Quang Tri) said that the encouragement and sharing of the people across the country is a great power for the people of Central Vietnam to rise up after the difficulties caused by the recent natural disasters.
The recent irregularities of floods and storms have reasons for climate change, due to the unfavorable geological structure of the central region. But the problem is certainly due in large part to the destruction of forests. Through this disaster, the costs of deforestation permeate more and more.
Small and medium hydropower grows everywhere, encroaching on many areas of natural forest. Most landslides and flash floods occur in areas with bare hills, deforestation – the ability to regulate the natural volume of water.
If there is no evaluation and review of the quality of the forests, the small and medium hydroelectric system, there is still no overview of the works that affect the natural forests, the environment and people’s lives. .
Through this phase, it is also necessary to reexamine the problem of socio-economic development, solve the problem of rapid but sustainable development, improve the activity and adaptation of the people and plan the area for the population. and relocate people in mountainous areas from the danger of landslides and flash floods.
In fact, the recent model of houses to avoid floods has come into play, research is needed to develop more policies, so that every home has a safe house to avoid floods.
The Central region has 118 wind and solar energy projects. This type of clean energy should be used to replace the small and medium hydroelectric in the localities.
Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong stated that due to the early forecast, the entire country has limited consequences of natural disasters and climate change.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nguyen Xuan Cuong, quickly discussed the issues raised by the delegates.
In terms of forest protection and development, the Minister provided statistics. So far, Vietnam has 14.6 million hectares, of which the natural forest is 10 million hectares. This is an outstanding effort by the entire society and the entire population because over the past 30 years, the determination to develop forests for growth and sustainable development has resulted in the forest cover rate increasing from 26% to 42% .
In order to protect natural forests, the state always ensures the policy of maintaining more than 1 million hectares of forest cores for these households to ensure their livelihood. Along with that is the policy of payment for forest environment, every year, according to the socialization policy, the whole country earns more than 3 billion VND. The world has admitted that Vietnam participates in sustainable development to receive an additional 1,000 trillion VND in support.
However, the general perception is that natural forests cannot be recovered as they used to be because millions of tons of chemicals were sprayed to destroy the forests during the war.
Regarding the response to climate change, the minister said that 400,000 ha of rice cultivation have been converted to aquaculture and fruit trees in the Mekong Delta.
Leaders at all levels are also focused on continually directing transition policies to address increasingly severe sea level rise and storm surges. The minister said that due to the early forecast of the large impacts of climate change, Vietnam has partly avoided the consequences of recent floods and storms.
“We try to raise the correct spirit of the water”, wherever Thuy Tinh hits, Son Tinh rises there, “said the minister.
Cat Linh – Ha Dong “super muddy” railway project is dissected
Representative Nguyen Phi Thuong (Hanoi) mentioned the problem of traffic congestion in the two largest cities in the country today, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The two cities are becoming megacities, each with 10 million people with many similarities, increasing the mechanical population each year by about 200,000 people, putting great pressure on infrastructure, especially traffic. For example, a report from Ho Chi Minh City shows that the annual damage caused by traffic congestion in the city is approximately $ 6 billion.
Since then, the urban rail construction policy in the two cities has been seen as a panacea for the problem.
Urban rail development is an urgent issue, but projects in both cities have problems, slow progress, large capital teams, which generates frustration in the public opinion.
“Ben Thanh – Suoi Tien Metro in HCMC, Cat Linh – Ha Dong Railway in Hanoi are in this situation. The competent authority should summarize and extract experiences urgently so that the following projects do not repeat the model of “super muddy” projects: Mr. Thuong raised the problem.
Participants presented the theme of urban rail development in association with public transport, urban development planning to bring into play the effects of this important type of infrastructure. Currently, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi are not designed for urban public transport, but are mainly developed by private vehicles with very low road density. The landscape of sidewalks, terraced houses and motorcycles is characteristic of urban Vietnam. Motorcycles occupy an important position in traffic and will compete fiercely with the urban railway.
Delegates commented, because the link is not high, so the urban rail with the two largest cities is still simply an imported product. For urban rail projects to be effective, there must be a large number of passengers. Therefore, the railway lines are only part of attracting people, another important part is the surrounding facilities such as private parking, apartments, buildings, offices. Therefore, it is necessary to review the issue of urban spatial restructuring to attract urban rail users.
Delegate Thuong suggested that the National Assembly and the Government should have an investment policy for urban rail in association with urban restructuring, such as the development of the two banks of the Red River in Hanoi and the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh City to eliminate public vehicles. This is in addition to the axis that links the areas with large population and high demand for travel in the city.
He also analyzed, currently, each urban railway is deployed by a contractor with different technology. Vietnam should soon request the transfer and mastery of urban railway construction technologies; research on a policy model for the development of private urban railways like Japan.
Citing the typical project is the Cat Linh – Ha Dong railway, according to delegates, the conclusion of the state audit has pointed out many problems that not only the Ministry of Transport or Hanoi can solve. The delegates wondered, without knowing the term of the project is that the operation at the end of this year is feasible, after many times it has to be delayed and delayed.
“With the Cat Linh – Ha Dong railway, how to solve the problems so that there is no ninth time I miss the meeting with the people? It is necessary to evaluate and learn from the experience of borrowing ODA for the construction of urban railways, be careful with the loan conditions. And investment in urban railways is only effective when the entire line is built, not a section of the line, “concluded the Thuong delegates.
Phuong Thao
