Overview of the session.

According to the submission presented by Duong Duc Tuan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Hanoi Party Committee and Standing Vice Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee, over the past two decades, Hanoi has undergone rapid and extensive urbanization, especially since the 2008 administrative boundary expansion. 

This process has created new development space and contributed positively to economic growth, investment attraction and improvements to the city's urban landscape.

Alongside these achievements, Hanoi's urbanization has also faced challenges. Population, jobs and service activities remain concentrated mainly in the historic inner city, while satellite towns and areas beyond the ring roads have developed slowly and have not effectively eased population pressure or shared urban functions. This has placed heavy strain on transport systems, technical infrastructure and the urban environment.

The real estate market has also revealed an imbalance between the supply of mid- and high-end apartments and the supply of social housing and housing for middle-income earners, workers and the labor force.

Implementing guidance from General Secretary To Lam at a working session with the Standing Committee of the Hanoi Party Committee on January 10, 2026, the Party Committee of the Hanoi People's Committee has refined the orientation of the Capital Master Plan with a 100-year vision. 

The plan defines Hanoi's leading and coordinating role as a development hub, aiming to build the capital into a livable city where residents enjoy a clean environment, strong cultural life and social welfare, and where multi-polar, multi-purpose urban clusters are formed.

From this urban development reality, Hanoi needs to promptly study and implement a strategy for developing multi-purpose urban areas as a key tool for regulating urban space and population distribution across the city.

Standing Vice Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Duong Duc Tuan presents the submission at the session.

Tuan said the project aims to develop multi-purpose urban areas evenly across eight directions of Hanoi, linked to nine development corridors identified in the Capital Master Plan with a 100-year vision. Priority will be given to locations near major transport corridors and public transport hubs.

The project is designed to proactively create large-scale resettlement housing, social housing and official housing with flexible functions suited to actual needs. It will help form sustainable living and working spaces capable of generating and maintaining livelihoods within the urban areas themselves, particularly for resettled residents. These areas will also serve as pilot spaces for new mechanisms and policies, innovative building materials and modern urban organization and governance models in Hanoi.

Key requirements and principles include alignment with the Capital Master Plan's 100-year vision, based on a multi-polar, multi-center, multi-layer and multi-purpose urban cluster model featuring nine development poles, nine major centers, nine development corridors, six ring roads and supporting development corridors. Multi-purpose urban areas will be developed at a sufficiently large scale following a compact, mixed-use model, with resettlement housing, social housing, official housing and commercial housing flexibly integrated within the same urban area.

Implementation of the multi-purpose urban area model must be integrated from the zoning planning stage, tailored to the livelihood characteristics of each area, allow flexible conversion among housing types, align with the city's smart urban development project and establish profit control mechanisms during investment and business operations. These measures aim to balance the interests of the state, investors and residents and help lower housing prices in the real estate market.

In terms of scale, each urban area will have a minimum size of 150 hectares. 

The Hanoi People's Committee will set standards to ensure efficient land use, increase green space to improve the environment and climate and align with Vietnam's and Hanoi's infrastructure and economic conditions. 

The standards will also meet requirements of the city's smart urban development project, apply technology in management, transport, energy and environmental monitoring, use green and sustainable building materials and integrate underground, green and smart infrastructure in line with a multi-layer urban model.

The city will apply special investor selection mechanisms under National Assembly Resolution No. 258/2025/QH15 dated December 11, 2025, to choose investors appropriate to the nature and objectives of these projects.

Regarding profits, the Hanoi People's Committee will develop a profit margin control framework to ensure a balanced distribution of benefits between the state and businesses, reduce housing costs citywide and make housing more accessible to residents. The prescribed profit margin will be set below current regulatory thresholds.

Delegates press the button to adopt the resolution. 

In parallel, the city will establish mechanisms to control profits and costs so that project profit margins do not exceed approved thresholds based on construction investment costs and land-use fees.

The Hanoi People's Committee will also introduce support mechanisms, including regulation of construction material prices, access to labor and construction equipment and investment in technical infrastructure outside project boundaries, to ensure the effective and feasible implementation of the project.