Decree No. 52/2018/ND-CP on Development of Rural Industry.

This Decree prescribes development policies for rural crafts and craft villages.
According to article 4, rural crafts specified in this Decree include: 1. Agro-forestry-fishery product processing and preservation. 2. Production of handicraft products. 3. Processing and preparation of ingredients and materials serving rural crafts. 4. Production of woodwork, straw, ceramic, glass, textile, embroidery, minor mechanical engineering. 5. Production and sale of ornamental animals. 6. Salt production. 7. Other services serving production and livelihood of rural inhabitants.
Article 5 provides for criteria for acknowledging traditional crafts, craft villages, and traditional craft villages. Article 7 provide for policies on production premise of rural crafts: 1. Rural craft facilities that propose effective investment projects shall be assigned with land subject to levies and certificate of land use right as per land laws. 2. For investment projects requiring strict environmental pollution remediation, research and production of new products must be prioritized for receiving land subject to levies or renting land in concentrated industrial parks, industrial compounds. 3. Local government budget shall finance relocation of rural craft facilities from urban areas to planning location with specific amount decided by People’s Committees of provinces.
The Decree further makes provisions for: investment and credit, trade promotion, personnel training, financing for development of rural crafts, etc.