The Prime Minister requested ministries, agencies and localities to actively coordinate closely and support investors to promptly handle difficulties and problems arising during project implementation.
On the morning of March 16, in Vinh Phuc province, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the groundbreaking ceremony and launched the emulation movement to build the Lao Cai-Vinh Yen 500 kV transmission line project.
The Prime Minister requested that the subjects join hands and implement the project with 6 more: Faster progress; better quality; cheaper price; safer and more effective; better social security work; and better environmental sanitation.
Also attending were: Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son; Minister of Ethnic Minorities and Religions Dao Ngoc Dung; Minister of Construction Tran Hong Minh; President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor Nguyen Dinh Khang; leaders of ministries, branches, central agencies; leaders of localities where the line passes through, including Lao Cai, Phu Tho, Vinh Phuc, and Yen Bai.
The Lao Cai-Vinh Yen 500kV Transmission Line Project is a national key project approved by the Prime Minister for investment, with Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) as the investor and Power Project Management Board 1 as the investor representative. This is a 500kV double-circuit transmission line project with a total length of 229.5km and a total of 468 pole foundation locations. The project passes through 4 provinces including Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Phu Tho and Vinh Phuc. The total investment of the project is more than 7,410 billion VND.
At the event, leaders of Vietnam Electricity Group, Power Project Management Board 1, design consultants, supervision consultants and construction contractors committed to strive to complete before September 2, 2025, ensuring quality, technique, safety, hygiene and social security in the areas where the project passes.
After being put into operation, the 500kV line will be able to transmit about 3,000 MW from hydropower plants in the Northwest region and neighboring provinces to the national grid, increasing the ability to import electricity; creating connections, improving the ability to operate safely and stably for the national power system, reducing power loss in the transmission grid, and improving the efficiency of EVN's electricity production and business.
Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony, the Prime Minister congratulated, highly appreciated and commended the efforts and struggles of EVN, together with the relevant ministries and branches, in overcoming many difficulties and urgently completing a huge amount of work to have enough conditions to start the project.
The Prime Minister highly appreciated and commended the efforts of the local authorities and people of the four provinces of Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Phu Tho and Vinh Phuc who agreed, joined hands and were unanimous in carrying out the work of compensation and site clearance to hand over the site to the contractor for construction of the project.
The Prime Minister said that 2025, the year of the 13th term of the Party, Vietnam's economy needs to make a strong breakthrough and complete the country's socio-economic development goals for the 2021-2025 period. The Government focuses on directing and operating, achieving GDP growth of at least 8% in 2025, creating a solid foundation for double-digit growth in the following years. This is a difficult task, but it must be done to strive to achieve the 100-year goal of becoming a high-income developed country by 2045.
Emphasizing that economic growth cannot be achieved without energy, especially the electricity growth rate must be about 1.5 times higher than economic growth, the Prime Minister noted the reduction and elimination of unnecessary administrative procedures; decentralization, delegation of power, coupled with resource allocation, with the motto "locality decides, locality acts, locality takes responsibility."
Pointing out lessons learned in implementing the 500kV transmission line project circuit 3 Quang Trach (Quang Binh) - Pho Noi (Hung Yen), the Prime Minister pointed out that the management, leadership, direction and command must be based on a clear ideology, high determination, great efforts, drastic actions, focus, and finishing each task. The assignment must be clear to the person, the work, the responsibility, the time, the products and results, and easy to check, urge and evaluate.
Along with that is promoting the strength of great national solidarity, mobilizing the entire political system from the central to local levels, within the industry and outside the industry, the military, police, the Fatherland Front, mass organizations, enterprises and especially the people; making relentless efforts, only talking about doing, not talking about retreating, being proactive, positive, the bravery of the electricity industry and the close and effective coordination of corporations, state-owned corporations, and enterprises with the spirit of "sharing, understanding, working together, enjoying together, winning together and developing together, having joy, happiness and pride together."
The Prime Minister said that it is necessary to build and launch a vibrant patriotic emulation movement, arouse national pride, promptly encourage and reward, create an enthusiastic working atmosphere, all for the benefit of the nation and people. In particular, it must be implemented in the spirit of harmonious interests, shared risks, and harmonious interests between the State, people, and enterprises, with the motto of 3 yes, 2 no. In which 3 yes means beneficial to the State, beneficial to the people, beneficial to enterprises; 2 no means no personal motives, negative corruption, and no loss or waste of State assets.
The Prime Minister requested Vietnam Electricity Group to promote the spirit of determination and speed in implementing the recent 500kV line project, circuit 3, and to quickly implement the Lao Cai-Vinh Yen 500kV line project, within 6 months, and must definitely complete it before August 31, 2025 with 6 mores: Faster progress; better quality; cheaper price; safer and more effective; better social security work; better environmental sanitation.
Pointing out that the groundbreaking of the Lao Cai-Vinh Yen 500kV transmission line project is just the beginning; there is still much work to be done to complete and put this transmission line project into operation. The Prime Minister requested the authorities of the four provinces where the project passes, the Electricity Corporation and relevant ministries and branches to mobilize the participation of the entire political system, organizations and people of the localities to focus on peak competition, closely coordinate with relevant entities to implement the important, inter-provincial, inter-regional project, which has a great role and impact on the socio-economic development of this locality.
The Provincial Party Secretaries directly directed the early completion of site clearance work, including the foundation location, route corridor and site for temporary construction works, and handover to the construction unit in March 2025; paid attention to taking care of people's lives, arranging enough resettlement land, promptly relocating and resettling households, ensuring that the lives of people who gave up land for the project have better new places to live and livelihoods than their old places.
The Prime Minister noted that during the project implementation, investors, contractors and related units must strictly implement the Party's policies and guidelines, the direction of the Government and the Prime Minister, and be determined to fulfill the committed contents, ensuring quality and progress; focus on preventing and combating corruption, negativity, and group interests, and resolutely handle negative behaviors that affect the project.
The authorities must regularly inspect and urge, promptly have construction solutions to overcome objective challenges, ensure good technical requirements, construction quality, ensure labor safety and environmental sanitation, not to affect the people; organize construction in "3 shifts", "work through holidays, work through days off", "not enough work during the day, take advantage of working at night", "eat quickly, sleep urgently", ensure the proposed progress.
The Prime Minister requested ministries, agencies and localities to actively coordinate closely and support investors to promptly handle difficulties and problems arising during project implementation. Consulting contractors, construction contractors, and suppliers of materials and equipment for the project must strictly implement the commitments in the signed contracts and legal regulations to ensure the project is completed on schedule and with quality.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment supports and guides forest owners and relevant units in reclaiming forest trees at foundation and construction road locations to promptly hand over the construction site. The Prime Minister requested the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor to build, launch, and summarize a vibrant patriotic emulation movement, arouse national pride, promptly encourage, reward, and create an enthusiastic working atmosphere, all for the benefit of the nation and people.
The Prime Minister directed the press and media agencies to get involved, do a good job of communication, portray good people and good deeds at the construction site, mobilize people, create consensus and unanimity to implement the project; the Government continues to act, create, support and assist the investor to complete this very important project.
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