Some Issues of Land Management and Use of Yao people in Tan Dan Commune, Hoanh Bo District, Quang Ninh Province

Abstract

The Contract 10 system (1989) and Land Law issued in 1993 created a breakthrough in perception of land in rural areas of Vietnam. The recognization of land as valuable and land price determined by the State have brought land back to its real value and have created a fundamental impetus for transformation of the national economy of Vietnam, starting with agriculture. As a result, the use of land resource for socio-economic development and improvement of living standards of ethnic groups and regions, including ethnic minorities in the mountainous areas of the Northeastern region has achieved important results. However, in the process of development, besides the achieved changes and results, due to the difference of socio-economic developmental levels and the specific historical background of each region and ethnicity, the land management and use also has currently had a number of restrictions. Based on a study in an upland commune of Yao people in Quang Ninh province, this writing presents the active impacts of policy of land management and use on the socio-economic development as well as its accompanying negative ones. Thereby, this writing tries to make more contributions to understanding of particular feature of land management and use at ethnic minority community level in the Northeastern region at present