The 3rd meeting of the Steering Committee for national key railway projects

Delegates attend the meeting at the Hung Yen province’s bridge point

At the Provincial People's Committee’s Headquarters, the meeting drew the attendance of comrades: Nguyen Khac Than, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Lai Van Hoan, member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; leaders of a number of relevant departments, branches and localities.

According to the Steering Committee's report, since the 2nd Session, to carry out the Prime Minister's direction, ministries, branches and localities have focused on removing difficulties and obstacles, speeding up investment procedures for projects. Of the 48 tasks assigned by the Prime Minister at the 2nd Session of the Steering Committee, ministries, branches and localities have so far completed 23 tasks, 17 tasks are regular direction and management tasks that are being actively implemented, seven tasks have not met the schedule and one task has not yet reached the deadline.

Relevant ministries, branches, agencies and localities are focusing on performing assigned tasks, especially for four national key projects in the railway sector including: Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway project; Hanoi - Lang Son and Hai Phong - Mong Cai railways; high-speed railway project on the North - South axis; Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City urban railway projects. These are all new railway infrastructure construction and investment projects with a large scale and total investment, requiring high technical requirements, especially the high-speed railway on the North - South axis, which is being implemented for the first time in Vietnam.

For the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway project, the section passing through Thuong Hong ward and Lac Dao and Dai Dong communes of Hung Yen province is about 16.87km long. The total area that needs to be cleared for the project in the province is more than 72 hectares.

Speaking at the meeting, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Khac Than said: Determining this as a national key project, the Provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board has added the project in the list of key projects of the province, directly appointing the Provincial Party Secretary as the head of the committee to direct the progress and site clearance work. The Provincial People's Committee has developed a plan and assigned tasks to departments and branches to carry out the clearance. Provincial leaders also directly inspected and directed the measurement of boundary markers and route directions, ready for site clearance. Localities in the project area regularly disseminate and publicize project information to people within the planned site clearance area; at the same time, strictly manage to prevent illegal construction, taking advantage of policies, affecting people's lives and security and order.

With strategic significance in developing transport infrastructure and driving force for socio-economic development of the whole country in general, Hung Yen province in particular, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee affirmed that the locality will focus the most on site clearance, meeting the schedule assigned by the Government and the Prime Minister.

At the meeting, delegates focused on discussing and assessing the implementation of tasks, processes, regulations, and procedures to deploy key projects and important national projects in the railway sector; at the same time, proposed and recommended a number of solutions to remove difficulties and obstacles in the projects implementation.

Speaking at the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized: The Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and Conclusion No. 49 of the Politburo have clearly defined the orientation and strategic vision in developing railway infrastructure to create synchronous connections on the North-South economic corridor, the East-West transport corridor, promoting rapid and sustainable socio-economic development. Therefore, in the coming time, the tasks of the Steering Committee are extremely heavy, important and urgent. It is requested that the members of the Steering Committee assign tasks to ensure that the people, the work, the time, the responsibilities, the products and the authority are clear.

The Party committees and authorities of provinces and cities with projects focus on conducting site clearance and technical infrastructure relocation, with special attention paid to resettlement and production support so that people can quickly stabilize their lives and live better than in their old places.

Ministries, branches and localities focus maximum resources, remove all bottlenecks, overcome difficulties and challenges to complete assigned tasks in implementing key projects and important national projects in railway sector; strive to simultaneously start construction of the entire project route on August 19, 2025.