urgently remove obstacles, speed up progress of key projects

Also attending the conference were members of the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee: Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Nguyen Trong Dong and Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Duong Duc Tuan.

In the period of 2021 - 2025, according to the Resolution of the City People's Council, Hanoi will implement 39 key projects with a total estimated investment of over 360,980 billion VND in 10 fields. Of which, 32 projects use budget capital, 1 project is invested in the form of PPP, 6 projects are invested in the form of socialization.

Up to this point, projects using state budget capital have had 1 completed project, Vinh Tuy bridge phase 2; 15 projects are being implemented; 13 projects have been approved for investment policy but not yet approved for project; 6 projects have not yet approved for investment policy, and are in the process of preparing pre-feasibility study reports.

For 1 project using PPP capital, the elevated road along Ring Road 2 from Vinh Tuy to Nga Tu So was completed in 2022. Of the 6 socialized projects, 4 projects have been decided on investment policy; 1 project is completing documents for investment policy approval; 1 project does not have a proposal document yet.

Regarding disbursement results, in the 2021 - 2023 period, disbursement reached 70.8% of the assigned plan; the 2024 capital plan by April 15, 2024 had disbursed more than VND 1,968 billion, reaching 11.9% of the annual plan.

At the conference, members of the Steering Committee reviewed, evaluated, and summarized difficulties and obstacles for each project; analyzed causes, problems, limitations, and recommended and proposed specific, highly feasible solutions to promote the implementation of key projects, improve disbursement results and efficiency of public investment capital use.

Concluding the conference, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh emphasized that the plan has been completed for more than half of the time, but the progress of key projects is still slow. Meanwhile, the 5-year medium-term capital plan for the period 2021 - 2025 must be arranged and disbursed in the remaining months of 2024 and 2025, which is 39,986 billion VND.

The Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee requested the units assigned to prepare investment proposal documents to proactively and urgently work with relevant departments and branches to remove difficulties and obstacles and complete the documents, submit them to competent authorities for appraisal and approval of investment policies according to regulations at the meeting of the City People's Council in July 2024.

For ongoing projects, it is necessary to speed up progress; for projects that are still facing difficulties in site clearance, the Chairman of the City People's Committee requested that localities mobilize the entire political system to participate. In case of failure to ensure progress, they must proactively report to the City People's Committee early for appropriate direction and management of capital sources.

Chairman of the City People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh also assigned the Department of Planning and Investment to preside over the synthesis of the implementation of the plan, disbursement results and difficulties and obstacles of the units, and report to the City People's Committee monthly. Thereby, the responsibility of the heads of departments, branches, sectors, People's Committees of districts, towns and investors in the leadership and direction of handling difficulties, obstacles and bottlenecks in the implementation of key projects will be considered.

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