On 28 June 2024, at the 7th Session, the National Assembly voted and passed the Resolution No.139/2024/QH15 on the National Marine Spatial Master Plan for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050. This is the first time Vietnam established the National Marine Spatial Master Plan, based on international experience but with adjustments suitable to its actual situation. The promulgated Master Plan will be an important tool to support state management of the sea according to a comprehensive approach
a framework, comprehensive, integrated, multi-sectoral, dynamic and open, leading Master Plan
concretizing the Party's policies and orientations and the State's legislations on the management, exploitation and use of marine space, especially Resolution No.36-NQ/TW dated 22 October 2018 of the 8th Session of the 12th Party Central Committee on the Strategy for sustainable development of Vietnam's marine economy to 2030, with a vision to 2045. The National Marine Spatial Master Plan allocates and arranges marine space reasonably for sectors and fields in the exploitation and use of marine space resources in a sustainable manner, harmoniously combining economic and social interests, environmental protection, national defence, security, foreign affairs and international cooperation in coastal areas, islands, archipelagos, sea and airspace under Vietnam's national sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction
minimizing conflicts in the exploitation and use of marine space.