The year 2024 must be a breakthrough year for public investment disbursement, striving for a disbursement rate of over 95% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister.
The directive states: The year 2024 must be a breakthrough year for public investment disbursement, striving for 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 goal, the Prime Minister requests that ministries, central agencies, and localities implement a number of key tasks and solutions.
Accelerate the completion of investment and bidding procedures for projects
Specifically, ministries, central agencies, and localities must urgently complete investment and bidding procedures, striving to start construction of all public investment projects under their management that have been assigned and allocated with the 2024 public investment plan.
Ministries, central agencies, and localities shall establish detailed disbursement plans for each project and strictly adhere to the monthly and quarterly disbursement plans. Strengthen on-site inspection and supervision, urge contractors and consultants to speed up progress. Assign specific leaders to be responsible for monitoring progress; closely follow up and promptly remove difficulties, and be responsible for the disbursement results of each project. At the same time, proactively review and evaluate the disbursement capacity of each project, synthesize the capital supplement needs of the projects, and have a plan to adjust the plan capital from projects with slow disbursement to projects with disbursement capacity within the ministries, central agencies, and localities in accordance with regulations, ensuring full disbursement of the allocated capital.
Do not let projects wait for land
The Prime Minister requests to speed up the progress of compensation, site clearance, and resettlement for projects. Specifically, ministries, central agencies, and localities focus on leading and directing, identifying compensation, site clearance, and resettlement as bottlenecks in project implementation that need to be focused on removing.
Prioritize allocating sufficient funds for compensation, site clearance, and resettlement for the area that meets the conditions; do not let projects wait for land, especially key national projects, expressways, key projects, inter-regional roads, and coastal roads.
Propose that socio-political organizations participate in propagating and mobilizing people in compensation, site clearance, and resettlement to speed up the progress of implementing the 2024 public investment plan.
Along with that, ministries, central agencies, and localities need to focus on removing difficulties and obstacles related to land and resources. Continue to seriously implement the directions of the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers on removing difficulties related to mining licenses, exploitation of stone, sand, and soil… to serve public investment projects, ensuring quickness, efficiency, and compliance with the law. Implement measures to control the price and quality of construction materials for public investment projects. Strictly handle the situation of creating artificial scarcity, collusion among mine owners to raise prices, and exploitation and provision that do not comply with regulations, affecting the construction of projects.
Strengthen the supervision of compliance with regulations in the management and disbursement of public investment capital
The Prime Minister requested to increase the frequency of project inspection to promptly rectify existing shortcomings and inadequacies, accelerate the progress of implementation and disbursement of public investment capital. Tighten discipline in the disbursement of public investment capital, resolutely strictly handle investors, project management boards, organizations, and individuals who deliberately cause difficulties, obstacles, and irresponsibility that slow down the progress of capital allocation, capital adjustment, project implementation, and disbursement of public investment capital. Timely replacement of weak, sluggish, bureaucratic, and negative civil servants and employees, resolutely handling negative acts in public investment management.
At the same time, ensure substantive disbursement of public investment capital, not abuse contract advances. Ensure the time for capital allocation for project implementation in accordance with the Law on Public Investment, limit the extension of time for capital allocation for projects to competent authorities.
Review and remove overlapping and problematic regulations
The Prime Minister assigned 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 the provisions in relevant laws towards simplification, minimizing administrative procedures, removing overlaps and problems, ensuring publicity, transparency, and anti-corruption. and waste, especially regulations on project formulation, appraisal, and approval, medium-term and annual public investment plans, strengthening decentralization and empowerment, ensuring publicity and transparency; report to the competent authority in September 2024.
The Ministry of Finance shall take prime responsibility and coordinate with relevant agencies to review the problematic contents to report to the competent authority for amendment of legal regulations, policies and mechanisms related to public investment in the Law on State Budget, such as the tasks of local budget expenditure for investment projects through the territory of 02 localities; using the local budget to invest in works under the management of the central government; simplifying the disbursement procedure for non-refundable aid funds…
Closely monitor market price movements, proactively research and propose to the competent authority solutions for price management, tax and fee policies, and other policies to contribute to stabilizing prices and reducing costs for enterprises, including those operating in the construction field.
Ensure the supply of construction materials for projects
The Ministries of Transport, Natural Resources and Environment, Industry and Trade, and the People’s Committees of provinces and cities focus on removing difficulties and obstacles, ensuring the supply of common construction materials (sand, soil filling) for expressway projects, key projects, inter-regional roads, and coastal roads, associated with the 500-day and 500-night emulation period. determined to win, striving to complete the victory of expressway projects.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development guides ministries, central agencies, and localities before August 30, 2024, on the work of converting forest land use purposes; review the regulations and, if necessary, propose amendments and supplements.
The Ministry of Construction closely monitors the market situation and price movements of construction materials, especially key materials, and promptly proposes and reports to the Prime Minister solutions to remove difficulties and obstacles in ensuring supply and demand and controlling the price of construction materials. Guide and handle difficulties of ministries, central agencies, and localities related to urban planning, construction acceptance inspection, appraisal of feasibility reports, and design appraisal for construction implementation after the basic design.
Expedite the completion and issuance of guiding documents for the implementation of the Land Law 2024
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment shall urgently complete and issue documents guiding the implementation of the Land Law 2024; urgently complete and submit to the Government for issuance of a Decree amending and supplementing Decree No. 08/2022/ND-CP dated January 10, 2022 of the Government detailing a number of articles of the Law on Environmental Protection in August 2024 to overcome problems related to environmental procedures for construction projects of offices of state agencies.
In August 2024, 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 shall take the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry of Industry and Trade to guide and handle difficulties and obstacles in implementing projects overlapping with the planned mineral areas of localities.
