Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 8 asked ministries, sectors and localities to build and issue their own plans to finalise major transport infrastructure projects in 2025, clarifying the responsibility of particular parties and timeline for particular projects, ensuring the completion of the construction of 3,000km of highways by the end of next year.

Chairing the 13th meeting of the State steering committee for key national transport projects, PM Chinh noted that currently, the country has 40 large-scale transport projects and 92 component projects crossing 48 centrally-run cities and provinces.

At the previous meeting of the committee, the PM assigned 57 tasks to ministries, agencies, and localities, focusing on removing difficulties and obstacles facing transport projects, accelerating ground clearance, and ensuring the supply of construction materials for the projects, especially those in the south. To date, 20 tasks have been completed on time, while the remaining are underway.

Specifically, the eastern wing of the North-South Expressway in the 2021-2025 period is making good progress, while component projects of the Long Thanh International Airport project are basically implemented as scheduled. The T3 Terminal project at Tan Son Nhat airport is on the right track, and the Nhon-Hanoi urban railway project is about to start commercial operation.

PM Chinh hailed the efforts of ministries, sectors, localities, businesses, project management boards, constructors, engineers, and workers in implementing the projects, noting that currently, about 1,700km of highways are under construction, with about 1,200km scheduled to complete in 2025.

He asked ministries, sectors, and localities to show active response to the movement of “500 rush days and nights to successfully finish expressway projects” to celebrate the 14th National Party Congress, 80th National Day, and 50th anniversary of the South Liberation and National Reunification.

Stressing that investing in infrastructure development enables the expansion of new development space, new urban areas and services, raising land value, reducing logistics costs, facilitating travel, creating jobs and livelihoods for people, developing business activities, and promoting growth and socio-economic development, PM Chinh requested relevant parties to focus on solving issues related to investment procedures.

He requested parties involved in bidding and selecting contractors to ensure transparency in the process, while resolving all problems related to construction materials, thus ensuring sufficient material supply for projects.

Pointing out problems in ground clearance, he ordered localities to mobilise the engagement of the whole political system in the work.

At the meeting, the PM assigned specific tasks to particular ministries, sectors, and localities.

For the 436km of 14 stagnant projects, the PM instructed relevant parties to direct investors and contractors to coordinate with localities to deal with difficulties in ground clearance and ensure construction material supply.

Within August, localities must complete ground clearance and technical infrastructure relocation for projects scheduled to complete in 2025, he stressed.

🍃 The PM requested localities acting as project management agencies to proactively seek material supplies, while closely coordinating with localities owning material mines to complete exploitation procedures to ensure the supply of filling materials for projects./.