Prime Minister presides over the 21st meeting on transport projects
On the afternoon of November 8, the State Steering Committee for national key projects in the transport sector (the Steering Committee) held its 21st meeting to assess the implementation of national key projects in the transport sector; and deploy tasks in the coming time. The meeting was held in both face-to-face and virtual forms between the bridge point at the Government Headquarters and the provinces and centrally-run cities that have national key projects in the transport sector.
Delegates attend the meeting at the provincial bridge point.
Comrade Pham Minh Chinh, Politburo member, Prime Minister, Head of the Steering Committee chaired the meeting. At the Hung Yen provincial bridge point, the meeting saw the presence of comrades: Nguyen Khac Than, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Lai Van Hoan, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; representatives of leaders of some departments and branches of the province.
At the meeting.
According to the report of the Ministry of Construction, at the 20th meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assigned 30 tasks to ministries, branches and localities. In particular, focusing on removing difficulties and obstacles, speeding up investment preparation procedures to start construction and inaugurate projects on the occasion of December 19, 2025. To date, the units have completed 8 tasks on time; are actively implementing 21 tasks; one task related to site clearance has not met the required progress.
To accelerate the implementation of key projects, the Prime Minister decided to add 3 projects (Phu Quoc International Airport expansion project, Gia Binh International Airport construction investment project and Can Tho 2 Bridge construction investment project) to the list of projects under the Steering Committee, bringing the total number of projects to 123 projects/component projects...
At the meeting, delegates focused on discussing, assessing the situation, proposing solutions to ensure progress and shorten the progress of works and projects, ensuring quality, construction techniques, ensuring labor safety, hygiene, environmental landscape and removing difficulties and obstacles that arise.
Speaking at the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated that infrastructure development is one of the three strategic breakthroughs identified since the 11th Party Congress to date. Strategic infrastructure development contributes to promoting public investment disbursement, economic growth, rapid and sustainable development of the country.
The Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and localities assigned to be the project management agencies to continue directing investors and construction contractors to seriously carry out the tasks assigned at previous meetings of the Steering Committee. In particular, increase human resources and equipment; overcome adverse weather conditions to speed up the implementation progress. Ministries, branches, localities, management agencies, investors and contractors review the demand and ensure the supply of construction materials to serve the construction of projects; focus on removing difficulties and obstacles related to mechanisms, policies and investment procedures during the project implementation, and strive to bring works and projects to the finish on schedule.
