Prime Minister: Completely remove obstacles for 1,533 prolonged and pending projects

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh: Resolutely remove obstacles for 1,533 long-standing and pending projects. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Attending the meeting were comrades: Politburo member, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh, Head of the Steering Committee; Party Central Committee members: Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung, Minister of Agriculture and Environment Do Duc Duy, Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh; leaders of ministries, branches, and members of the Steering Committee.

According to the report of the Ministry of Finance, the standing agency of the Steering Committee, as of March 25, a total of 1,533 projects reported by agencies and localities were facing difficulties and problems, including 338 public investment projects, 1,126 non-budgetary investment projects and 69 PPP projects. In addition, the Ministry of Finance received documents from enterprises reflecting on 12 projects facing difficulties and problems.

The Ministry of Finance has preliminarily classified difficulties and obstacles into 17 related groups of issues such as: Handling public assets; management, use, and allocation of public investment capital; changing land use purposes; stopping, recovering, and terminating project activities... At the same time, classifying projects according to the authority to handle difficulties and obstacles of: the National Assembly, the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries, branches, and localities.

The Prime Minister chaired a meeting with the Steering Committee on reviewing and removing difficulties and obstacles related to projects. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

The Government has submitted to the National Assembly Resolution No. 170/2024/QH15 on specific mechanisms and policies to remove difficulties and obstacles for projects and land in the conclusions of inspections, examinations, and judgments in Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, and Khanh Hoa; Resolution No. 171/2024/QH15 on piloting the implementation of commercial housing projects through agreements on receiving land use rights or having land use rights.

The Government has issued Resolution 233/NQ-CP on policies and directions to remove difficulties and obstacles for renewable energy projects. It is expected that the agencies will submit to the Government a resolution to remove obstacles for 5 projects in Ho Chi Minh City in early April.

Regarding the two projects of Bach Mai Hospital and Viet Duc Hospital, Facility 2, the Government has issued Resolution No. 34/NQ-CP; the Government leaders have agreed to the policy of allocating additional budget from the increased revenue in 2024 to complete the two projects in 2025, soon putting them into service for the people.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh speaks at the meeting. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

In his concluding remarks, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh commended and highly appreciated the Head of the Steering Committee, members, and working groups of the Steering Committee for their dedication, responsibility, urgent and practical work, achieving many positive results, solving work with output, and handling it in a constructive and feasible manner.

The Prime Minister stated that this work aims at many goals and has great significance in many aspects, of which the most important goal is to remove difficulties, obstacles, and bottlenecks in backlogged and prolonged projects, not to waste resources of the State, society, people, businesses, and investors as General Secretary To Lam emphasized; to liberate, mobilize, and exploit huge resources, contributing to promoting GDP growth from 8% in 2025 and reaching double digits in the following years; to create jobs and livelihoods for people; to create a bright, green, clean, and beautiful landscape and environment; to encourage cadres to dare to think, dare to do, dare to break through, dare to take responsibility for the common good, while clearly defining the responsibilities of collectives and individuals to properly handle and prevent corruption, negativity, and waste; to relieve the frustrations of the people and cadres.

Regarding viewpoints, the Prime Minister stated that time is short, work is a lot, content is rich, and nature is complex, so determination must be high, efforts must be great, actions must be drastic, effective, focused, key points, clear assignment of people, work, time, products, responsibilities, and authority; problems at which level must be resolved at that level, and the authority of the person must be resolved, without pushing or avoiding.

Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh speaks at the meeting. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

The spirit is to focus on removing difficulties and obstacles, overcoming consequences, ensuring publicity, transparency, equality, and clarity, for the common task. The Prime Minister noted that in the process of resolving, the responsibilities of individuals and groups must be clarified to the extent that they are handled; "hitting the mouse but not breaking the vase", not allowing mistakes to pile on mistakes, not creating a precedent for future violations.

The Prime Minister requested to focus on resolving the 1,533 projects that have been reported. If there are any new projects, they must continue to be resolved. The spirit is to be clear as to what is done, to be sure as to what is done, to finish each task, to learn from experience as you go, to expand gradually, not to be perfectionist, not to be hasty; for specific issues, a specific mechanism must be proposed for handling. Regarding the deadline, the Prime Minister directed that the procedures for handling the projects must be completed before May 30.

In particular, for projects with land clearance problems, the Prime Minister requested localities, especially at the grassroots level, to thoroughly resolve problems related to land clearance; based on the law, specific conditions, and local capabilities to decide on appropriate support, ensuring the legitimate and legal rights and interests of the people, considering having reasonable policies for special subjects, the disadvantaged, and the disadvantaged, and at the same time strictly handling cases of intentional violations, procrastination, and opposition...

Deputy Minister of Public Security Pham The Tung speaks at the meeting. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

For groups of projects with planning problems, review the planning, especially specialized planning, as a basis for implementing projects to ensure consistency and synchronization with the general planning system.

Regarding difficulties and problems with projects and land in the conclusions of inspections, examinations, and judgments, it is proposed that the National Assembly allow localities, ministries, branches, and agencies to apply specific policies approved by the National Assembly in Resolutions 170 and 171 to projects of similar nature.

For projects with violations during implementation but have been basically implemented and are difficult to recover, propose solutions to remove them, give a deadline to overcome difficulties, obstacles and consequences (if any); the spirit is efficiency, humanity, appropriateness, prioritizing the application of economic, civil and administrative measures first, then applying other measures; do not conceal, do not omit, do not let violations slip through, do not let state assets be lost but ensure the legitimate and legal rights and interests of people and businesses.

For difficult and entangled projects that do not have legal regulations to regulate and cannot apply the specific policy mechanisms issued by the National Assembly, they must be researched and proposed to the National Assembly at the upcoming session.

The Prime Minister directed the Ministry of Finance to develop and submit to the Government for promulgation a resolution to handle groups of issues under its authority; at the same time, build a database system on projects with difficulties, obstacles, backlogs, and prolongations, based on the data to analyze the causes, propose appropriate, feasible, and effective solutions; have general instructions with forms and outlines for ministries, branches, and localities to make reports.

Along with that, the Ministry of Finance and the Government Office urgently submit to the Prime Minister to issue the third dispatch to direct, orient and urge agencies and localities to continue reviewing, evaluating and classifying backlogged and stuck projects to report and propose tasks, solutions, plans, mechanisms and policies for handling. If they do not report on time, they must take responsibility when the authorities intervene.

The Prime Minister requested ministries, branches, agencies and localities to proactively and actively resolve problems for projects within their authority, promote the highest responsibility, coordinate closely and effectively, and if beyond their authority, report to competent authorities for consideration and decision.

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