Hai Phong: The head must be responsible if there are violations in mineral exploitation.

Photo caption — Construction of Nam Dinh Vu sea dike ( Hai Phong ). Photo: Quoc Khanh/VNA

Therefore, to strengthen the management, exploitation and use of minerals in the city in a sustainable manner, associated with the strategy of developing the marine economy, port industry, logistics services, marine tourism and ensuring national defense and security, the Standing Committee of the Hai Phong City Party Committee requires Party committees at all levels, authorities, the Fatherland Front and socio- political organizations, according to their assigned functions and tasks, to proactively grasp the situation, focus on leadership, and assign tasks to ensure the 6 clear principles (clear people, clear work, clear time, clear responsibility, clear products, clear authority) to effectively implement state management of minerals.

If there is lax management, violations in mineral exploration, exploitation, transportation and consumption activities that cause loss of resources, environmental pollution, loss of security and order, affecting the prestige of the Party and local government, the leader must be responsible before the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee.

The Standing Committee of the Hai Phong City Party Committee requested Party committees and authorities at all levels to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of minerals; focus on directing to ensure that the exploitation and use of minerals must comply with regulations on land allocation, land lease, and conversion of land use purposes; the use of wharves for gathering and transiting minerals must comply with planning and be permitted by competent authorities; strictly manage the use of explosives in mineral exploitation activities; strictly control, not to cause landslides, affect the dike system, people's lives and coastal works in sand and gravel exploitation activities on riverbeds and coastal areas.

Local Party committees and authorities focus on reviewing, adjusting, and supplementing the management plan on geology and minerals as part of the plan for environmental protection, exploitation, use, protection of resources, biodiversity, prevention and control of natural disasters, and response to climate change to ensure suitability for integration into the city's planning; the management plan on geology and minerals must be linked to the demand for construction materials and landfill for key projects, industrial parks, economic zones, seaports, and urban infrastructure of the city; reviewing and orienting mineral mine areas for common construction materials and landfill materials serving key national and city projects to carry out procedures for granting mineral exploitation licenses in accordance with the provisions of law.

The authorities must also promptly announce the actual prices of construction materials, strictly control mineral exploitation activities, prevent speculation and price manipulation, and ensure the stability of construction material prices to serve socio-economic development. At the same time, review and evaluate the potential of marine minerals, develop appropriate exploitation plans, and minimize impacts on the marine ecological environment, coastal ecosystems, aquatic resources and fishermen's lives.

The Standing Committee of the Hai Phong City Party Committee requested Party committees at all levels, departments, branches, localities, police, military and customs forces to strengthen coordination in managing the exploitation, transportation and consumption of minerals in the city, especially marine minerals, to prevent illegal exploitation and smuggling across the sea border.

Party committees and competent agencies continue to strengthen inspection and examination of mineral exploitation and use activities, ensure labor safety; synchronously deploy solutions for tax, fee and charge management. Fight against tax evasion, tax and fee fraud; exploitation without completing procedures, exploitation beyond capacity, exploitation beyond the boundaries of the permitted exploitation area, and wrong land use purposes.

For ineffective mining areas that cause environmental pollution, resolutely suspend operations, revoke the right to use or revoke licenses, close mines, renovate and restore the environment; strictly handle illegal mining, transportation, trading and export of minerals; review and inspect mine closures for mineral mining licenses that have expired according to regulations.

The Standing Committee of Hai Phong City Party Committee also requested Party committees, authorities, and functional agencies to strengthen digital transformation in mineral management activities; build a digital geological and mineral database system, integrate GIS, remote sensing, and AI technology to monitor and analyze mineral data; apply science, technology, digital transformation, deploy online monitoring systems, vehicle positioning devices to manage mineral output and origin; build a local geological and mineral database, connect to the database information system of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment.

Hai Phong also requested enterprises to innovate and modernize production technology to improve labor productivity, efficiency of mineral exploitation and processing to increase recovery rate, reduce loss of mineral resources in the process of mineral exploitation and processing, improve labor safety, and ensure compliance with environmental protection regulations.

The authorities continue to research and develop mechanisms and policies to attract and facilitate investors in researching and producing materials to replace natural sand and gravel; policies to support and facilitate organizations and individuals in the activities of crushing and recycling scrap and waste generated in construction activities to make building materials and leveling materials, contributing to reducing pressure in the process of exploiting and recovering minerals and natural materials.

The Party Committee, the government, and functional agencies continue to review regulations on financial mechanisms in mineral activities based on local practices to advise and make recommendations to central ministries and branches on amending and supplementing financial policies to suit the actual conditions and socio-economic development orientation of the city.

According to the leaders of Hai Phong city, currently, mineral management in the area still has some limitations such as: Illegal exploitation, transportation and consumption of minerals still occurs; the establishment, updating and approval of geological and mineral management plans to integrate into the city's planning, the delineation of prohibited areas, temporary bans on mineral activities and plans to manage and protect unexploited minerals in some localities are not timely and do not meet the city's development requirements.

At the same time, the capacity of the force to conduct inspection, examination and handling of violations in some areas is still limited; inter-sectoral and inter-level coordination in management and supervision of administrative procedures, mine closure and environmental restoration is sometimes not uniform. Not only that, currently, the awareness of some Party committees, Party organizations, authorities, cadres, Party members and people about mineral management and protection is still inadequate; some organizations and individuals take advantage of legal loopholes and procedures to exploit beyond scale and capacity, violate exploitation plans, cause landslides, pollution, and loss of labor safety, etc.

Source: https://baotintuc.vn/kinh-te/hai-phong-nguoi-dung-dau-phai-chiu-trach-nhiem-neu-de-xay-ra-vi-pham-ve-khai-thac-khoang-san-20251028121632453.htm