Behind the story of the project “filling Ha Long Bay” also known as “dividing and selling world heritage sites” is no longer just a violation of the Heritage Law or the Environmental Law, but rather a power struggle at the top of the royal court.
There are political forces within the Party who have mobilized the total force of the media that they manipulate to blow up the incident, with articles with titles opening with “Shocked; horrified; barbaric… .” to attract views, as well as to stir up public opinion.
Architect Duong Quoc Chinh, a person living in Vietnam, in the status “Digging mountains and filling the sea” commented that:
“I smelled a fight about the rockery incident in Cam Pha! Any case that creates more public opinion than necessary, is bound to have the hairy hands of someone everyone knows! In this case, the local officials of Quang Ninh are more or less affected, but it is not about attacking property developers.”
According to Duong Quoc Chinh, Quang Ninh’s mountain moving and sea filling has been going on for more than ten years, starting with sea filling to build a road to Tuan Chau island, then that island was expanded further… The entire BIM area, Marina, Hung Thang, the entire SUN World area, and the entire beach area at Bai Chay are all encroached seas. Vinpearl’s island is also artificial to build a hotel.
Therefore, the entire sea boundary area on Hon Gai, the Quang Ninh museum area… was also created by filling the sea. The Quang Ninh government has reclaimed more than 10,000 hectares of sea land, Ha Long’s is about more than 6,000 hectares, and Cam Pha’s is more than 5,000 hectares of land. And the project that was reported in the newspaper is located close to the main road, everyone can see it.
That’s why, according to Duong Quoc Chinh’s assessment, “This case was not accidentally blown up… proving that there is a media trick. Perhaps the targets are the current and past authorities of Quang Ninh, and then it may be related to someone high up, responsible for ‘digging mountains and filling seas, determined to succeed!”
Duong Quoc Chinh’s comments were further reinforced when Facebooker CaoBao Do, who the social network said was a boss at FPT, wrote on his personal page: “…the press and social networks simultaneously talked about sea reclamation project, turning the rocky mountain on the bay into a rockery. Most people say that the reclamation project is on Ha Long Bay, or in the buffer zone of Ha Long Bay.
I wrote in a comment on a reputable newspaper that ‘This is a project in Bai Tu Long Bay, 24 km from Bai Chay, need accurate information’ and was immediately bombarded with ‘how much money do you get?’ implying I am the person who was given money by the project owner to write that comment.”
According to the link provided by the author, leading to the map of Ha Long Bay in the files of UNESCO (the agency that recognizes Ha Long Bay as a world natural heritage), it shows:
“… clearly Quang Hanh and the Quang Hanh project (in red), are not located on Ha Long Bay nor in the buffer zone of Ha Long, it is located entirely on Bai Tu Long Bay.”
The google map tool will give the same general result.
Facebooker CaoBao Do raised an interesting question, that is, why is this such a big social phenomenon, causing such a stir in public opinion, that “… unfortunately, there is no newspaper page, no KOLs, no agencies speaking up to tell the truth, that the project belongs to Bai Tu Long Bay, not Ha Long Bay.”
It is worth mentioning that a project that is considered “scandalous” is located in Bai Tu Long Bay, dozens of kilometers from Ha Long Bay, and has nothing to do with “dividing plots for sale in Ha Long Bay.” The Party newspaper “blamed” it, then perhaps, there is nothing difficult to understand. When incumbent Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held the position of Secretary of the Quang Ninh Provincial Party Committee for the period 2010-2015.
The above analyzes and assessments are completely consistent with developments in Vietnamese politics from the beginning of 2023 to the present. At the 7th Plenum of the 13th Central Committee, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong planned to remove PM Chinh in an internal vote of confidence in the Central Committee, but the party chief failed.
Before the 8th Plenum of the 13th term, General Secretary Trong continued to complain to Hanoi voters about the fact that “criminals can’t hide!” to refer to Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan who was said to be very close to PM Chính.
And with the results of the National Assembly’s vote of confidence for 44 leaders elected and appointed by the National Assembly, Chinh still surpassed spectacularly.
Thus, in order to “block” the progress of the PM in the race for the General Secretary position at the upcoming 14th Party National Congress, and create favorable conditions for National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue to take the posision so the General Secretary has no choice but to “pursue and destroy” to defeat the government leader.
Thoibao.de (Translated)
