Urgent direction, urgent action, immediate provision of hundreds of billions of dong to support localities
On November 21, the Politburo issued Notice No. 99-TB/TW directing the work of overcoming consequences caused by rain and floods in the Central region.
The Prime Minister also issued Decision No. 2549/QD-TTg dated November 21, 2025, providing emergency support of VND 700 billion from the central budget reserve in 2025 for 4 localities (Khanh Hoa VND 200 billion, Lam Dong VND 200 billion, Gia Lai VND 150 billion, Dak Lak VND 150 billion).
On the same day, the Government organized three working delegations led by Deputy Prime Ministers to inspect and direct flood response and recovery work in the Central region. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh went to Dak Lak, Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung went to Lam Dong, and Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long went to Gia Lai.
The Prime Minister has issued the following Official Dispatches: No. 226/CD-TTg dated November 21, 2025 on strengthening the management and use of national reserves to support and respond to rain and floods in the Central region; No. 225/CD-TTg dated November 20, 2025 on focusing on responding to and overcoming the consequences of exceptionally large rain and floods in the Central region; No. 223/CD-TTg dated November 20, 2025 on focusing on responding to exceptionally large floods in Khanh Hoa, Dak Lak and Gia Lai; No. 222/CD-TTg dated November 19, 2025 to Gia Lai, Dak Lak and Khanh Hoa provinces on focusing on responding to exceptionally large floods on the Ba River (Dak Lak), emergency floods on the Kon River (Gia Lai); No. 219/CD-TTg dated November 17, 2025 sent to the People's Committees of provinces and cities from Ha Tinh to Lam Dong on focusing on responding to and promptly overcoming the consequences of floods in the Central region; No. 218/CD-TTg dated November 16, 2025 sent to the People's Committee of Khanh Hoa province on urgently overcoming the landslide incident at Khanh Le pass in Nam Vinh Khanh commune, Khanh Hoa province; Official dispatch No. 217/CD-TTg dated November 16, 2025 sent to the People's Committees of provinces and cities from Ha Tinh to Khanh Hoa on proactively preventing, avoiding, and responding to floods in the Central region.
On November 21, the Ministry of National Defense also mobilized 16,999 officers and soldiers (10,111 soldiers, 6,388 militiamen); 838 vehicles to help people respond to and overcome the consequences of floods; mobilized 4 Mi aircraft ready to take off, along with 9 tons of dry food and other necessities to distribute to people in flooded areas.
The Ministry of Public Security mobilized 65,274 officers, soldiers, grassroots forces and 5,280 vehicles to coordinate with local forces to immediately deploy response work, overcome the consequences of floods and storms, and ensure traffic safety.
On November 20-21, the Minister of Agriculture and Environment and a delegation of Government leaders inspected and directed response work in Khanh Hoa province. Previously, the Ministry had sent 3 working delegations to coordinate with localities to direct the implementation of flood response work.
In parallel, on November 21, the Department of Dyke Management and Natural Disaster Prevention and Control coordinated with Save the Children to hand over aid in the form of goods to the Fatherland Front of Dak Lak province, including: 6,000 boxes of instant sausages, 9,000 boxes of biscuits, 6,000 cartons of bottled water, 6,000 cartons of milk. The total value of the goods is 2.457 billion VND. ActionAid International in Vietnam distributed cash to 330 severely damaged households in the Huong So resettlement area in Huong An ward (formerly Huong So ward), Hue city, with an amount of 3,000,000 VND/household. It is expected that today (November 22), the aid shipment from the European Union (EU) will be transported to Noi Bai International Airport, then distributed to Dak Lak province. EU aid includes: 138 kitchen sets, 150 family tents, goods worth approximately 75,660 Euros.
Providing thousands of tons of rice in time to support people
Previously, on the evening of November 20, 2025, from Algeria, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired an urgent online meeting with Deputy Prime Ministers Nguyen Hoa Binh and Ho Quoc Dung, leaders of the National Civil Defense Steering Committee, ministries and localities to direct the implementation of urgent solutions to respond to floods.
From November 18 to 20, Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung directly inspected and directed the response and recovery work and visited the affected people in Khanh Hoa and Dak Lak provinces. On November 20, the Deputy Prime Minister chaired meetings with the four localities of Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Khanh Hoa and Lam Dong to direct the response work.
On November 20, 2025, the Ministry of Finance decided to provide 4,000 tons of national reserve rice in emergency situations to the People's Committees of Khanh Hoa and Gia Lai provinces (Khanh Hoa 2,000 tons; Gia Lai 2,000 tons) to promptly support people in localities affected by floods; previously, 1,760 tons were supported.
On November 18, 2025, the Prime Minister decided to provide emergency support of VND 50 billion to Khanh Hoa province to overcome the damage caused by floods; previously, on November 14, the Prime Minister decided to provide emergency support of VND 300 billion to Gia Lai and VND 200 billion to Dak Lak province to overcome the consequences of storm No. 13 and floods; previously, it supported Gia Lai with VND 330 billion and Dak Lak with VND 230 billion.
The National Steering Committee for Civil Defense issued Official Dispatch No. 31/CD-BCĐ-BNNMT dated November 14, 2025 to ministries, branches and People's Committees of provinces and cities from Ha Tinh to Khanh Hoa on responding to floods in the Central region; Document No. 30/BCĐ-BNNMT dated November 13, 2025 to People's Committees of provinces and cities from Quang Tri to Khanh Hoa on proactively responding to heavy rains, floods, inundation, flash floods, and landslides; Document No. 32/BCĐ-BNNMT dated November 17, 2025 to the Ministry of Construction on ensuring traffic safety during floods.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment issued Document No. 9181/BNNMT-DD dated November 17, 2025 to the People's Committees of provinces and cities in the Northern, North Central and coastal regions from Quang Ninh to An Giang on proactively responding to severe cold and strong winds at sea.
The Department of Dyke Management and Natural Disaster Prevention and Control coordinated with the Department of Telecommunications - Ministry of Science and Technology to send 2 batches of SMS messages to 26.4 million subscribers to warn people in areas affected by rain and floods in provinces and cities from Ha Tinh to Lam Dong on November 17; coordinated with Zalo Vietnam to send 24.1 million Zalo messages instructing people to ensure safety against heavy rain, floods, flash floods, and landslides from Ha Tinh to Khanh Hoa, of which: on November 19, 4.7 million messages were sent to people in Gia Lai, Dak Lak, and Khanh Hoa provinces; organized a serious 24/24 duty, closely monitored the development of natural disasters to promptly advise on direction and response work.
As of November 21, 2025, embassies and international organizations have provided and committed to providing aid to localities affected by storms No. 10, 11, 12, 13 and post-storm floods with a total budget of about 13.625 million USD.
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