this may be seen as a positive factor in encouraging urban administrators to be ambitious on behalf of their cities and the provinces they serve but it also carries certain disadvantages for example as the scoring system emphasises infrastructure development and population growth local infrastructure development is prioritised above adherence to the adjustment of orientation master plan to develop viet nam s urban system until with a vision to aomp and other urban strategies which place a stronger focus on sustainability emphasis on population growth has resulted in municipalities expanding their existing administrative boundaries in order to catch neighbouring rural areas and convert them to urban land so as to add to their population figures