Promote decentralization, delegation of power, and further promote the role of leaders in disbursing public investment capital.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested ministries, agencies and localities to uphold the spirit of overcoming difficulties and be determined to disburse at least 95% of the assigned plan with the main viewpoint.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired an online meeting of the Government Standing Committee with ministries, branches, provinces and cities to urge the acceleration of public investment disbursement in 2023. (Source: VNA)

On the morning of November 27, at the Government headquarters, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired an online meeting of the Government Standing Committee with ministries, branches, provinces and cities to urge the acceleration of disbursement of public investment capital in 2023.

2023 results better than 2022

In the 11 months of 2023, the disbursement rate of public investment capital nationwide reached about 461 trillion VND, reaching 65.1%, 6.77% higher than the same period and the absolute number was higher than the same period by more than 122.6 trillion VND. Although the disbursement rate of public investment capital nationwide is better than in 2022, there are still 41 ministries, central agencies and 24 localities with disbursement rates lower than the national average.

At the Conference, leaders of the Government and ministries, branches and localities analyzed the reasons for achievements, lessons learned, especially reflecting on the shortcomings, limitations, difficulties and obstacles that have caused the disbursement and implementation of public investment to fall short of expectations; at the same time, proposed solutions to further promote public investment disbursement.

In particular, delegates reflected that the slow disbursement of public investment was due to a number of reasons such as: difficulties in compensation and site clearance; cumbersome investment procedures; some overlapping and overlapping legal regulations that have just been adjusted; investment preparation, bidding management, and contract signing were prolonged; especially, there was still confusion and apprehension among some officials performing public duties related to public investment...

Concluding the Conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated that the Government has identified promoting the disbursement of public investment capital in 2023 as one of the key political tasks. Since the beginning of the year, the Government has issued 8 Resolutions, 1 Directive, 6 Official Dispatches/Documents to promote the disbursement of public investment capital. The Government has organized a national online conference and included the content of public investment in the meetings of the Government Standing Committee and regular Government meetings.

Along with that, continue to maintain the operation of 5 Working Groups to promote the disbursement of public investment capital of the Government; establish 26 working groups led by Government members to work with localities to inspect, urge and remove difficulties. Thanks to that, the disbursement of public investment in 2023 achieved better results than in 2022.

The Prime Minister acknowledged and commended the results that ministries, branches and localities have strived to achieve, making important contributions to socio-economic recovery and development; at the same time, he severely criticized ministries, agencies and localities with low disbursement rates and those that have not fully allocated public investment capital plans; requested agencies and localities to seriously review and learn from experience, on that basis, they must resolutely implement solutions to improve the disbursement of public investment capital in their agencies and localities quickly and effectively.

“Ministries, agencies and localities must strengthen inspection, supervision, urging and handling of practical difficulties and bottlenecks; strengthen discipline and order in public investment; units and individuals who have not completed their tasks must be handled according to regulations of the Party and State,” the Prime Minister pointed out.

Analyzing the causes of the existence and limitations, the Prime Minister stated that the slow disbursement has objective causes, but the subjective causes are still mainly: project preparation work is still sketchy, poor quality, leading to problems during implementation; capital planning is not close to reality; some project management boards, investors, and contractors are weak in capacity; leadership, direction, and implementation organization in some ministries, agencies, and localities are still lacking in determination, depth, and specificity, lacking political determination, the role of the leader has not been promoted, especially in thoroughly handling difficulties and problems of projects; there is even a situation where cadres, civil servants, and public employees show signs of avoiding, pushing work, fearing mistakes, and fearing responsibility; discipline in public investment is not strict; inspection and examination work is still limited; handling of violations and delays in management and use of public investment capital is not timely and strict; Coordination between ministries, branches and localities is sometimes and in some places not close...

The Prime Minister emphasized that there is only more than 1 month left until the end of the 2023 state budget year, while the disbursement volume is still quite large (about 247 trillion VND); at the same time, he requested ministries, agencies and localities to uphold the spirit of overcoming difficulties, taking difficulties and challenges as motivation to strive to rise up, determined to disburse at least 95% of the assigned plan with the main viewpoint.

According to the Prime Minister, to achieve the above goals, ministries, branches and localities must seriously grasp, resolutely and effectively implement the directions of the Party, State and National Assembly leaders, the Resolutions and Conclusions of the Government, and the Prime Minister's directions on disbursement of public investment capital; promoting disbursement must go hand in hand with ensuring the quality of works, fighting negativity, corruption and waste.

Along with that, closely follow, identify and assess the situation correctly and accurately; have high determination, great efforts, take drastic actions, focus on removing difficulties and obstacles, especially in terms of institutions, mechanisms and policies, on the principle that the level that issues them must remove them; in cases beyond authority, report to the competent authority.

Promote decentralization and delegation of authority, further promote the role of leaders in public investment disbursement. Enhance discipline and administrative order, strictly handle violations, slow progress in capital allocation, implementation and disbursement of capital plans.

Strengthen coordination between ministries, central and local agencies, ensuring efficiency and substance in handling work; perfect sanctions to have more effective tools to handle units, groups and individuals who do not complete disbursement tasks, allowing negativity and waste to occur.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh delivered his concluding remarks. (Source: VNA)

Use public investment disbursement results to evaluate the level of task completion.

Affirming that promoting the allocation and disbursement of public investment capital; capital sources for the Socio-Economic Recovery and Development Program; 3 national target programs are key political tasks, focusing on priorities in direction and management, especially key and important national projects and works such as expressways, inter-regional projects and works with high spillover effects..., Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested to maintain the operation of 5 Government Working Groups and the quarterly mechanism of Government members working with localities; maintaining special Working Groups headed by Chairmen of Provincial People's Committees to promote public investment.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested Ministers, Heads of central agencies, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities to uphold their sense of responsibility, promote the role of leaders in leadership, direction and implementation; regularly review, urge, promptly detect and remove difficulties and obstacles arising in each project, especially key projects; personalize responsibilities to each individual; consider disbursement results as one of the important bases for assessing the level of completion of annual tasks of relevant organizations and individuals.

The Prime Minister requested to strengthen inspection, supervision, and urging investors, contractors, and consultants to speed up progress; strictly handle investors, project management boards, and contractors who intentionally cause difficulties, obstruct, and delay capital allocation and disbursement; review, handle, and promptly replace weak and negative civil servants and public employees who do not complete assigned tasks, prolong projects, and cause waste.

Ministries, branches and localities conduct thorough reviews right from the project preparation stage, project selection, capital allocation to design, bidding, construction, payment procedures, settlement, etc. for each project, construction, investment plan; focus on accelerating site clearance progress; making advances, recovering advances, paying investment capital in accordance with regulations, preparing payment records as soon as there is volume. At the same time, promote administrative procedure reform, apply information technology, digital transformation in public investment, especially in appraisal, capital allocation, expenditure control; at the same time, strengthen post-audit.

The conference was held online to localities. (Source: VNA)

The Prime Minister requested ministries and branches to base on their tasks to remove difficulties in public investment disbursement.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Planning and Investment shall promote its role in state management of public investment, closely monitor, urge, guide and promptly handle difficulties and problems of ministries, central agencies and localities to accelerate the disbursement of public investment capital; report to competent authorities to issue flexible management solutions to complete the target of disbursement of public investment capital in 2023; propose to transfer capital from places and projects with slow disbursement to projects and places with effective disbursement; promptly submit to the Prime Minister the state budget estimate and state budget investment plan for 2024 according to the prescribed time and implement the plan right from the first days and months of 2024, not to "have a leisurely beginning of the year and a hard end of the year".

The Ministry of Justice reviews problems related to disbursement, especially administrative procedures, decentralization, and delegation of authority. The Ministry of Finance directs the State Treasury to promptly make payments for completed volumes, especially through online public services.

The Ministries of Transport, Natural Resources and Environment and People's Committees of provinces and cities focus on removing difficulties and obstacles, ensuring the supply of common construction materials (sand, soil) for expressway projects. The Ministries of Transport and Natural Resources and Environment should soon have a conclusion on the use of sea sand as soil.

The Ministry of Construction guides, inspects, and urges localities to regularly update, adjust, and publish prices and price indexes of construction materials monthly in accordance with market price developments, without causing congestion for contractors. The Ministry of Industry and Trade closely monitors the situation and developments of the construction materials market, controls prices, and ensures the supply of construction materials, especially gasoline, oil, and steel.

The Working Groups continue to inspect, supervise, urge, and direct the timely handling of difficulties, obstacles, and shortcomings in the implementation of public investment disbursement at ministries, central agencies, and localities; strengthen policy information and communication work, contributing to creating consensus and active participation of people, businesses, and investors; promote good models, good practices, and even places that have not done well so that public investment work can achieve higher results.

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