On the afternoon of December 6, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the State Steering Committee for important national projects and works, key to the Transport sector, chaired the 15th meeting of the Steering Committee.
The meeting was held directly at the Government Headquarters bridge; online with 44 provinces and cities with important national projects and key works of the Transport sector in the area.
Attending the meeting were Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha; leaders of ministries, branches, relevant agencies and leaders of provinces and centrally run cities; representatives of investors, consulting units, supervisors, and construction contractors.
Currently, the country has 40 projects, with 92 component projects in the list of the Steering Committee directing implementation in 3 areas: road, railway and aviation, including expressways, belt roads of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, urban railway projects, airports...
At the 14th Session, the Prime Minister assigned 83 tasks to ministries, branches and localities focusing on removing difficulties and obstacles, speeding up investment preparation procedures for projects, including 33 tasks of direction and management and 50 specific tasks related to each project.
After the meeting, the Government leaders and the Steering Committee inspected, urged and encouraged the implementation of a number of expressways and airport construction projects. This showed that in general, most projects had good progress, but there were also many projects or stages, parts of work and items that were not well implemented.
To date, 41 tasks have been completed on time; 9 tasks have not been completed, of which 2 have not yet reached the deadline and 7 have expired.
Tien Giang, Ben Tre, Vinh Long, and Dong Nai provinces have not completed four tasks regarding mine licensing procedures and increasing mine capacity for projects in the Southern region to ensure capacity to meet project implementation progress.
Lam Dong province has not completed two tasks of approving the Tan Phu-Bao Loc and Bao Loc-Lien Khuong projects. Ho Chi Minh City has not yet put into operation the Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien urban railway.
According to the Steering Committee, progress in some projects is still slow due to some difficulties and problems, mainly related to site clearance.
In some residential areas, site clearance is difficult due to the identification of origin and complicated compensation plans; the construction of rest stops at component projects on the North-South expressway in the East is still slow; the relocation of technical infrastructure works such as high-voltage power lines has not met requirements. The provision of construction material mines is slow or the capacity has not met the plan...
In particular, some projects are behind schedule or only meet normal construction progress requirements such as: Bien Hoa-Vung Tau and Ben Luc-Long Thanh expressway projects; Long Thanh international airport; Nhon-Hanoi railway station urban railway...
Concluding the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh commended the sectors, localities and units for their determination to remove difficulties and obstacles, focus on site clearance, meet material needs, mobilize forces, vehicles and human resources to vigorously carry out construction, speed up the progress of project implementation...; at the same time, he severely criticized the units and localities that were slow in implementing the projects.
The year 2025 is of special significance, with major anniversaries for the country: 95 years of the Party's founding, 50 years of the liberation of the South, national reunification, 135 years of President Ho Chi Minh's birthday, 80 years of the country's founding; the year of holding Party Congresses at all levels, towards the 14th National Party Congress; also the year of reaching the finish line that determines the success of the entire 2021-2025 period, realizing the goal of having 3,000km of expressways nationwide and completing the elimination of temporary and dilapidated houses nationwide. The Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and localities to overcome difficulties, make efforts to implement projects on schedule, and put them into use soon to promote investment efficiency, contribute to the development of the country, so that the people can enjoy the results.
Emphasizing the need to speed up progress, ensure technical, aesthetic, construction quality, environment, and labor safety at construction works and projects, the Prime Minister especially noted not to use bidding as a safe haven for negativity and corruption in project implementation; requested to promote projects, contribute to promoting public investment disbursement, and complete the task of prioritizing growth; implement plans to sell the right to exploit expressways to recover capital for other projects; investors, contractors, localities, units and related entities make plans to make up for lost progress...
In that spirit, the Prime Minister directed localities to mobilize the entire political system to participate, coordinate with socio-political organizations such as the Youth Union, Veterans Association, Women's Association, etc. in the localities to speed up the progress of site clearance, strengthen mobilization, sharing, and helping people to complete the handover of project sites on schedule; ensure that people can "settle down and make a living", especially during the upcoming Lunar New Year.
In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to and take care of the lives of workers and laborers at the construction site; develop a plan to prepare for Tet, especially for workers and laborers who stay on construction during Tet, there needs to be special treatment, so that workers can have Tet, although temporarily far from their relatives and homeland, but close to joy and happiness, contributing to the development and prosperity of the country, to the era of national growth, in the spirit of "not letting brothers, sisters, and workers be lonely at the construction site."
The head of the Government requested the competent authority to urge contractors to increase machinery, equipment, and construction personnel with the spirit of "overcoming the sun, overcoming the rain, not losing to storms and winds," "working in 3 shifts, 4 shifts," "through holidays, Tet, and days off," "eating quickly, sleeping urgently"; contributing to speeding up the construction progress, bringing the projects to the finish line ahead of schedule.
Emphasizing the review of regulations to promptly overcome shortcomings in legal and investment procedures, the Prime Minister noted that we must be determined to complete the set goals, and that we cannot adjust the goals; we must identify this as an important and top political task in the coming time to focus on directing and operating.
For some key and specific tasks, the Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Planning and Investment to urge and speed up the appraisal of documents, including the Tan Phu-Bao Loc and Hoa Lac-Hoa Binh projects and the renovation and upgrading of National Highway 6 through Xuan Mai-Hoa Binh.
The People's Committees of Thai Binh, Ninh Binh and Lam Dong provinces proactively and actively coordinate with relevant agencies, determined to complete procedures according to regulations, ensuring the commencement of projects.
Regarding site clearance, the Prime Minister directed localities, especially the provinces of Tuyen Quang, Khanh Hoa, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Kien Giang, Bac Lieu and Da Nang city to be more determined and make more efforts in organizing implementation; strictly implement Official Dispatch No. 80/CD-TTg dated August 16, 2024, ensuring the completion of the handover of the entire remaining site in December 2024, as a basis for completing the project in 2025.
In particular, regarding construction materials in the Mekong Delta region, the Prime Minister assigned the People's Committees of Tien Giang and Ben Tre provinces to immediately resolve procedures for granting mining licenses by volume for projects; at the same time, requested Tra Vinh province to uphold its sense of responsibility to support river and sea sand resources for projects in the region under the direction of Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha.
The Prime Minister pointed out that the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of Transport, and the Ministry of Science and Technology urgently implemented the direction of Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha in Notice No. 538/TB-VPCP dated December 1, 2024 on reviewing the standards, norms, and processes for handling sea sand for construction and landfill activities, as a basis for localities to research and pilot implementation for works and projects in the area.
Emphasizing the task of implementing projects in the plan to complete 3,000km of expressways by 2025, the Prime Minister pointed out that the goal of completing 3,000km of expressways by 2025 is a particularly important political task of the entire Party, people, and army, especially the competent authorities assigned to implement the projects, to celebrate the 14th National Party Congress.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested ministries, branches, localities, and competent agencies to direct investors and contractors to coordinate with localities to remove difficulties and obstacles in site clearance, relocation of technical infrastructure, and supply of construction materials; to focus, be highly determined, make great efforts, and resolutely carry out construction to speed up the progress of projects, in the spirit of "all for the people, for the development of the country."
In particular, seriously review and urgently deploy key tasks to complete the goals of the emulation movement "500 days and nights of emulation to complete 3,000 km of expressway" launched by the Prime Minister on August 18, 2024 in Dak Lak province and only created in Official Dispatch No. 673/TTg-CN dated September 5, 2024.
The Prime Minister requested that the Project Management Boards need to learn from practical experience, urgently reorganize construction at the construction site, carry out construction smoothly and simultaneously at many locations according to the "rolling" principle; rebuild and complete the progress critical path; urge and mobilize the total force of the main contractor and subcontractors, deploy 24/7 the work performed by modern machinery and equipment; mobilize youth, army, police... to do public service work for manual work; urgently take action more strongly and resolutely but must ensure labor safety at the construction site.
Assigning specific tasks related to the Long Thanh International Airport Construction Investment Project and Connecting Infrastructure; Terminal T3 Project, Tan Son Nhat Airport and a number of other projects in the spirit of "clear people, clear work, clear agencies, units, clear products, clear completion deadlines," Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh basically agreed with the proposals of ministries, branches and localities related to capital, policies, scale of a number of projects, innovation of the Appraisal Council's activities...
The Prime Minister believes that ministries, branches, localities, units, forces, relevant entities and people will join hands to promote the implementation of projects, contributing to the realization of the double-digit economic growth target in the coming time, implementing the direction of General Secretary To Lam to bring the country into a new era - the era of national development, building a rich and prosperous country./.
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