Law No. 21/2017/QH14 - Law on Planning.

This Law provides for formulation, appraisal, decision or approval, announcement, implementation, assessment and adjustment of the planning under the national planning system; responsibility for state management of planning.
The national sector planning shall specify orientations to development, distribution and organization of spaces and resources used for common, inter-regional and inter-provincial sectors. The national marine spatial planning shall specify zoning and spatial arrangement, distribution and organization of various fields and sectors within coastal areas, islands, archipelagoes, territorial waters and airspace that belong to sovereignty, sovereign rights and national jurisdiction of Vietnam (Art.23). The national land use planning shall specify distribution and organization of spaces used for the purposes of socio-economic development, national defense and security assurance, environmental protection, natural disaster preparedness and climate change resilience according to land potentials and demand for land use by inter-regional and inter-provincial fields and sectors (Art.24).