The fourth meeting of the Steering Committee for national key projects in the railway sector

Comrade Nguyen Le Huy, Member of the Provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; leaders of relevant departments, branches and localities attended the meeting at the provincial bridge point.

Delegates attend the meeting at the provincial bridge point.

According to the report of the Ministry of Construction, since the third meeting of the Steering Committee, the Government and the Prime Minister have issued nearly 20 documents directing the issues related to national key projects in the railway sector. In particular, ministries, branches and localities were assigned 39 tasks, focusing on removing difficulties and obstacles, speeding up investment preparation procedures for projects.

To date, ministries, branches and localities have completed 16 tasks to meet requirements, including a number of important tasks. In particular, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has submitted to the Government for promulgation of a Decree detailing the implementation of a number of articles of the Forestry Law, including the content on guiding the temporary use of forests and forest return for construction works. The Ministry of Construction has submitted to the Government for promulgation of a Government Resolution implementing Resolution No. 188/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly on a special mechanism for developing the urban railway network system in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City; submitted to the Prime Minister for approval of the Project on training and developing human resources for Vietnam's railways; reported to the Prime Minister on criteria for selecting investors, investment and construction forms, promulgated a set of common standards and regulations for high-speed railway projects on the North-South axis; reported to the Government Standing members on the development of specific mechanisms and policies related to the high-speed railway project on the North-South axis. The Ministry of Science and Technology has submitted to the Government a Decree guiding the implementation of railway science and technology development work. The Ministry of Industry and Trade has submitted to the Prime Minister a Railway Industry Development Project.

For the remaining 23 tasks, up to now, 10 tasks have been actively focused on conducting by the agencies; 5 tasks have not yet reached the deadline and 8 tasks have not met the progress.

For Hung Yen province, there is currently one Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway project with a length of 16.7km passing through the province. The total land area recovered for the entire project, the section passing through the province is about 83.5ha.

At the meeting, reporting to the Prime Minister on the project progress, Comrade Nguyen Le Huy, Member of the Provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, said: The province is performing the work of compensation, support, and site clearance for the construction of resettlement areas, including the construction of 4 resettlement areas with an area of ​​nearly 7.93 hectares to relocate 92 households. Currently, 2 resettlement areas have been built with a total area of ​​4.53 hectares. In addition, the work of extracting and reclaiming land for the entire route has been prepared by the localities, with preliminary data on the route provided by the investor in the pre-feasibility stage. Regarding the work of accurately determining the route and station location, the road to Luong Tai station, the localities have actively and widely disseminated to the people in the project area; at the same time, strictly managing, not allowing illegal construction, taking advantage of policies as well as affecting people's lives and security and order. There are currently no difficulties or problems on the entire project route in Hung Yen province.

Comrade Nguyen Le Huy, Member of the Provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, reports to the Prime Minister on the progress of the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway project passing through the area.

At the meeting, Hung Yen province proposed and recommended that the Railway Project Management Board promptly hand over the site clearance boundary markers so that the locality has a basis to deploy and carry out the investigation, statistics, and review of affected households to serve the resettlement work and adjust the land use plan. The Provincial People's Committee committed to implementing the project on schedule according to the project's requirements.

Based on the proposals and recommendations of ministries, branches, and localities, concluding the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested ministries, branches, and local authorities to concentrate maximum resources, remove all bottlenecks, overcome difficulties and challenges to complete the assigned tasks. The Ministry of Finance coordinates with the Ministry of Construction and other ministries, branches and localities to proactively allocate capital for projects, meeting the schedule, and not letting the lack of capital affect the projects progress.

Regarding site clearance, the Prime Minister requested that local authorities and Party committees where projects are located continue to pay attention to resettlement and livelihood support to help people stabilize their lives and production. At the same time, each ministry, branch and locality needs to closely follow the Central Government's guidelines, promote the spirit of self-reliance, responsibility, proactiveness, creativity and flexibility in the implementation of projects to ensure progress and quality of works and meet the requirements of the set goals and plans.