Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh
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Striving to commence all projects with allocated 2024 public investment plans
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed Directive No. 26/CT-TTg, dated August 8, 2024, on key tasks and solutions to promote the disbursement of public investment capital in the last months of 2024.
The Directive states that 2024 must be a breakthrough year in public investment disbursement, striving to achieve a disbursement rate of over 95% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister, creating favorable conditions for completing socio-economic development goals in 2024 and striving to complete at least 3,000 km of expressways by the end of 2025.
To achieve the above goals, the Prime Minister requests that ministries, central agencies, and localities implement a number of key tasks and solutions.
Specifically, ministries, central agencies, and localities must urgently complete investment procedures and bidding, striving to commence all construction works and public investment projects within their management scope that have been assigned and allocated with the 2024 public investment plan.
Ministries, central agencies, and localities are required to develop detailed disbursement plans for each project and strictly adhere to the monthly and quarterly disbursement plans. They should also enhance on-site inspections and supervise contractors and consultants to expedite progress.
Concrete responsibilities should be assigned to leaders in charge of monitoring project progress, addressing difficulties in a timely manner, and taking responsibility for the disbursement results of each project.
At the same time, they need to proactively review and assess the disbursement capacity of each project, aggregate capital supplement requests, and propose plans to adjust the capital allocation from projects with slow disbursement to those with high disbursement capacity within their respective ministries, central agencies, or localities as stipulated, ensuring full disbursement of the allocated capital.
No project should be delayed due to site clearance
The Prime Minister requests that site clearance compensation be expedited. Specifically, ministries, central agencies, and localities should focus their leadership and direction on site clearance compensation as a bottleneck in project implementation that needs to be addressed.
Priority should be given to allocating sufficient funds for site clearance compensation for areas that meet the conditions; there should be no project delayed due to site clearance issues, especially for national key projects, expressways, and key, inter-regional, and coastal roads.
Social and political organizations are encouraged to participate in propaganda and mobilization to ensure the people’s support for site clearance compensation, thereby accelerating the progress of the 2024 public investment plan.
In addition, ministries, central agencies, and localities need to focus on resolving difficulties and obstacles related to land and natural resources.
They should continue to strictly implement the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister’s directions on removing obstacles related to mining permits, and exploitation of stone, sand, and soil to serve public investment projects in a fast, efficient, and lawful manner.
Measures should be taken to control the price and quality of construction materials for public investment projects. Strict handling should be implemented for acts of creating artificial scarcity, collusion among mine owners to raise prices, and illegal exploitation and supply that affect the construction of projects.
Enhancing supervision of compliance with regulations in the management and disbursement of public investment capital
The Prime Minister requests increasing the frequency of project inspections to promptly rectify any shortcomings and accelerate the progress of public investment disbursement.
Discipline and rigor in public investment disbursement must be strengthened, and strict handling should be applied to investors, project management units, organizations, and individuals who intentionally cause difficulties, obstacles, or irresponsibly delay the progress of capital allocation, capital adjustment, project implementation, and public investment disbursement.
Timely replacement should be made for incompetent officials and public employees who cause sluggishness, create bureaucracy, or engage in negative acts, and resolute handling should be applied to any negative acts in public investment management.
Moreover, public investment disbursement should be substantive, and contract advance payments should not be abused.
The time for capital allocation for project implementation should be ensured according to the Law on Public Investment, and the extension of capital allocation time for projects should not be proposed to the competent authorities.
Reviewing and addressing overlapping and problematic regulations
The Prime Minister assigns the Ministry of Planning and Investment to take the prime responsibility and coordinate with relevant agencies to research and amend the Law on Public Investment, the Law on Investment in the Form of Public-Private Partnership, and related regulations. The amendments should aim to simplify and minimize administrative procedures, remove overlapping and problematic issues, ensure transparency and anti-corruption, and particularly focus on regulations related to project and medium-term and annual public investment plan formulation, appraisal, and approval. The amendments should also enhance decentralization and delegation of authority and ensure transparency. A report on this task should be submitted to the competent authorities by September 2024.
The Ministry of Finance is assigned to take the prime responsibility and coordinate with relevant agencies to review problematic contents and propose amendments to the competent authorities regarding legal regulations, mechanisms, and policies related to public investment in the Law on State Budget. These include investment tasks of local budgets for projects spanning two localities, the use of local budgets for the investment in works under the central government’s management, and the simplification of disbursement procedures for non-refundable aid…
The Ministry of Finance should closely monitor market price fluctuations and proactively research and propose solutions to the competent authorities regarding price management, tax and fee policies, and other policies to stabilize prices and reduce costs for enterprises, including those in the construction sector.
Ensuring the supply of construction materials for projects
The Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the People’s Committees of provinces and cities are assigned to focus on removing difficulties and ensuring the supply of common construction materials (sand, soil for embankment) for expressway projects, key and inter-regional projects, and coastal roads, in association with the “500 Days and Nights of High Determination, Great Efforts, and Successful Completion of Expressway Projects” campaign.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is requested to guide ministries, central agencies, and localities before August 30, 2024, on the work of converting forest land use purposes and reviewing regulations. If necessary, amendments and supplements should be proposed to ensure feasibility.
The Ministry of Construction is assigned to closely monitor the market situation and price fluctuations of construction materials, especially key materials, and promptly propose and report to the Prime Minister solutions to remove difficulties and obstacles in ensuring supply and demand balance and controlling construction material prices.
The Ministry of Construction should also provide guidance and handle difficulties faced by ministries, central agencies, and localities related to urban planning, project acceptance and inspection, appraisal of feasibility reports, and design appraisal for construction implementation after the basic design stage.
Expediting the completion and issuance of guiding documents for the 2024 Land Law
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is assigned to urgently complete and issue guiding documents for the implementation of the 2024 Land Law.
The Ministry should also promptly complete and submit to the Government for issuance the Decree amending and supplementing Decree No. 08/2022/ND-CP dated January 10, 2022, on detailing a number of articles of the Law on Environmental Protection, in August 2024, to overcome shortcomings related to environmental procedures for the construction of state agency headquarters.
In August 2024, the Ministry should guide the management and conversion of forest land and rice land related to the implementation of public investment projects.
At the same time, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is assigned to coordinate with the Ministry of Industry and Trade to guide and handle difficulties and obstacles in implementing projects that overlap with the mineral planning of localities.
Over 79 trillion dong invested in public infrastructure in Ho Chi Minh City
In 2024, the city of Ho Chi Minh will need to disburse over VND 79,000 trillion in public investments. This is a challenging task as the amount is even larger than that of 2023.
