Hoi An adjusts project to establish Cu Lao Cham Nature Reserve

clc-1-9.2021.jpg — Hoi An City adjusts the project to establish the Cu Lao Cham Nature Reserve. Photo: QUOC HAI

The meeting agreed to adjust and supplement the medium-term public investment plan and portfolio under the National Target Program for New Rural Development for the period 2021-2025, and to supplement the public investment portfolio for 2024. Specifically, it added over 7.8 billion VND to the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2021-2025; and added 11 projects in the communes of Cam Thanh, Cam Ha, Cam Kim, and Tan Hiep, with an estimated total of over 9.8 billion VND.

Adjusting the investment portfolio under the medium-term plan for the period 2021-2025 for one project in Cam Ha commune; adjusting the capital structure for the medium-term investment portfolio 2021-2025 in Cam Ha and Tan Hiep communes; adding 8 public investment projects in 2024 with a total estimated investment of over 7.2 billion VND.

Regarding the adjustment of some contents of the project to establish the Cu Lao Cham Nature Reserve, according to the Hoi An City People's Council, after the adjustment, the total area of the Cu Lao Cham Nature Reserve and buffer zone is 23,530 hectares, an increase of 30 hectares (compared to the total area approved in Resolution No. 06 dated March 10, 2021 of the City People's Council); of which the sea area is 21,887.2 hectares and the island area is 1,642.8 hectares.

The area has increased due to adjustments in mapping data; updating the entire area of national defense land for which land use rights certificates have been issued; and allocating functional zones to suit existing national defense and civilian facilities.

The adjustments were made to include the area of natural forest in the southeastern part of Hon Lao Island into the Strictly Protected zone, reduce the area of the Ecological Restoration zone to be transferred to the Strictly Protected zone (the island part), and increase the area of the Service-Administrative zone and buffer zone (the sea part and the island part).

Specifically, the area for the Service-Administrative sub-zone (the island portion) has increased by 43.6 hectares, focusing primarily on conservation tasks, building botanical gardens, gene conservation stations for plant and animal species, and medicinal plant areas, combined with research, education , and the development of ecotourism and community-based tourism.

The total cost of implementing the project to establish the Cu Lao Cham Nature Reserve, after adjustments, is over 129 billion VND (recurrent expenditure of over 62.6 billion VND, investment capital of 66.6 billion VND), an increase of 21.5 billion VND compared to the initial proposed budget.

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