Decision No. 661/QD-TTg on the target, task, policy and organisation for implementation of the project on planting of five million hectares of forest.

This Decree defines the target, tasks, principles (Chapter I), the policy and solutions (Chapter II) of a project to plant five million hectares of new forests, and provides for its implementation and related organization. The target of the programme is to plant five million hectares of new forest and to protect existing forest resources so as to ensure an increase in forest resources of forty-three percent. Other objectives are use of bare land, hills and mountains, eradication of poverty and famine, and to increase the wood supply. Guiding principles are set in article 2. New forest resources shall consist of two million hectares of protection and special-use forests and three million hectares of production forests. Trees include forest and perennial agricultural trees. Article 5 defines a policy regarding the allocation of land and the issue of land-use certificates.