Politburo and Secretariat establish five working groups to oversee flood recovery

Permanent Member of the Secretariat Tran Cam Tu has signed a notice detailing the Politburo's conclusions regarding the remediation of consequences caused by floods and rains in the Central Region. Following a report by the Central Committee Office on the response efforts during a November 21 session, the Politburo issued specific directives addressing the situation.

Severe losses in life and property

The abnormal and exceptionally heavy rainfall from November 16 to November 20 across Da Nang, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Khanh Hoa, and Lam Dong has resulted in heavy damages to both human life and property. Preliminary reports indicate that floods and landslides have left 50 people dead or missing and 21 injured. Infrastructure damage includes 167 damaged homes and over 52,000 submerged houses.

The agricultural sector suffered heavy blows with more than 13,000 hectares of crops and 2,100 hectares of perennial trees damaged, alongside the loss of over 30,700 livestock and poultry. Many residential areas remain isolated due to severed transport links, power outages, and disrupted water supplies and communications. Road networks in localities and the North-South railway axis have been cut off at multiple points for days.

The Politburo and Secretariat extended their sympathies regarding the losses faced by party committees, authorities, and residents in the affected localities, particularly grieving families who have lost loved ones. They also commended the efforts of party committees, local authorities, the military, police, medical forces, youth volunteer brigades, search and rescue teams, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, social organizations, businesses, and citizens in disaster prevention and recovery. Party and State leaders have been closely monitoring the situation, directing ministries and localities to implement preventive measures and personally visiting hard-hit areas to oversee recovery and stabilization efforts.

Mobilizing specialized equipment for relief

To timely address these consequences, the Politburo mandates strict adherence to directives from the Party and State, including Politburo Conclusion 98 and Prime Ministerial telegrams regarding flood recovery. Central ministries, party committees, local authorities, and the Fatherland Front must focus strictly on urgent relief work, grounded in the spirit that protecting human life is the paramount priority.

Authorities must ensure that no citizen suffers from hunger, cold, or a lack of clean water and medicine. Essential goods and resources must be mobilized to reach isolated communities by any means necessary. The Politburo explicitly instructed the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security to deploy maximum forces and specialized equipment, including helicopters and drones, to transport food and necessities to isolated areas while ensuring the safety of rescue teams.

Concurrently, the Ministry of Construction is tasked with mobilizing forces and vehicles to assist localities in clearing landslides on traffic routes, while the Ministry of Health will deploy personnel to participate directly in disease prevention in affected localities.

Local implementation and resource allocation

The Politburo also requires localities to continue perfecting and deploying plans to build forces and arrange vehicles for timely recovery and livelihood stabilization under the "four on-the-spot" motto and the principle of "cleaning up immediately as water recedes." Aid distribution, including food and medicine, must be proactive, timely, and targeted to the correct beneficiaries.

Operational management of hydroelectric and irrigation reservoirs must be directed to ensure dam safety and effective flood mitigation for downstream areas. Furthermore, traffic control forces must be strengthened to prevent citizens from entering deep flood zones or landslide-prone areas, with timely warnings provided for road subsidence risks. The conclusion also assigns the Vietnam Fatherland Front and relevant agencies to proactively promote international cooperation and seek resources to support disaster response, while launching donation drives among the public, agencies, and businesses.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh signed Decision No. 2549/QD-TTg on November 21, 2025, approving emergency funding for Khanh Hoa, Lam Dong, Gia Lai, and Dak Lak provinces to address the aftermath of severe flooding.

The decision allocates a total of 700 billion VND (approximately 27.5 million USD) from the 2025 central budget reserve to the four localities. Specifically, Khanh Hoa and Lam Dong will each receive 200 billion VND (approx. 7.9 million USD), while Gia Lai and Dak Lak are allocated 150 billion VND (approx. 5.9 million USD) each to repair flood damages. This funding distribution aligns with the proposal submitted by the Ministry of Finance in Document No. 18072/BTC-NSNN on November 20, 2025.