Many large projects open up opportunities for Ca Mau to make a breakthrough.

Leaders of Ca Mau province witnessed the signing of a 180-day emulation agreement to strive for growth of 8.8% in the last 6 months of 2025 (Photo: Ca Mau Portal)

Strong disbursement to create new momentum

According to the People's Committee of Ca Mau province, the total public investment capital of the province assigned in the 2025 plan is 12,221,638 billion VND. As of July 29, Ca Mau province (new) has disbursed more than 3,300 billion VND, reaching 27.2% of the capital plan, an increase of more than 3,100 billion VND, 291 billion VND higher and 1.1 times higher than the disbursement value in the same period in 2024.

Of which, local budget capital disbursed more than 2,400 billion VND, reaching nearly 38%; concentrated budget capital reached 622,805 billion VND, equivalent to 53%; central budget capital reached 684,84 billion VND, reaching more than 14%; capital of 3 national target programs disbursed 175,391 billion VND, reaching over 61%. The whole province has 8 investors with disbursement rates above average and 9 investors below average.

To achieve the above results, based on the Prime Minister 's Decision on assigning the 2025 Public Investment Plan and the Resolution of the Provincial People's Council, the People's Committee of Ca Mau province has proactively issued a decision to assign detailed capital plans for each project and construction category to investors for proactive implementation in December 2024. Assign leaders in charge of monitoring and urging project progress, assign Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee to monitor, urge progress, and remove difficulties and obstacles for each project and construction, especially key projects and constructions.

The leaders of Ca Mau province requested to resolve all problems related to the disbursement of public investment capital within the day, not to let the procedures drag on, causing waste of time and effort. Information and procedures on the project must be publicly posted at the administrative headquarters for people to easily access and create consensus.

Right from the beginning of the year, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee directed the organization of a Conference to promote the disbursement of the 2025 public investment plan every 2 weeks (organized 4 times); after the Conference, there was a Notice of Conclusion of the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee directing the resolution of each content, difficult work, and problems according to the recommendations of the investors and assigning responsibilities to each relevant department and branch to resolve with a specific time frame, reporting the results of the resolution at the next conference; thereby contributing to removing difficulties and problems of investors under the authority of the locality.

According to the general assessment, investors have proactively and actively urged contractors to speed up the project construction progress (for transitional projects), complete the steps of the project procedures to start the project soon; build a detailed project implementation schedule for each quarter with specific values and disbursement rates, along with assigning staff to monitor and be responsible for the implementation throughout the project.

At the same time, to create new momentum after the merger, Ca Mau province organized the launching ceremony of the emulation movement to celebrate the 80th anniversary of National Day (September 2, 1945 - September 2, 2025) and emulate 180 days to achieve 8.8% growth in the last 6 months of 2025, in which the provincial government leaders paid great attention to the disbursement of public investment capital, considering this as one of the main driving forces to promote local economic growth. After the merger, Ca Mau province has many favorable conditions for strong development. Therefore, it is necessary to make the most of the potential, advantages and outstanding opportunities to promote economic growth to achieve the set goals.

In particular, on August 19, along with the new momentum of groundbreaking and inauguration of 250 works and projects nationwide, Ca Mau province simultaneously started construction of key projects connecting Dat Mui and Hon Khoai with the North-South expressway axis; coordinated with the Ministry of National Defense to organize the groundbreaking ceremony of 3 key projects: Ca Mau - Dat Mui expressway; traffic road to Hon Khoai island and Hon Khoai dual-use general port. Coordinated with Vietnam Airports Corporation to organize the groundbreaking ceremony of Package No. 12 "Construction and supply, installation of equipment for runways, taxiways, aircraft parking lots and auxiliary works" under the Ca Mau Airport Expansion and Upgrade Project. Inaugurated and put into operation the Ca Mau Provincial Sports and Physical Training Complex and the project to upgrade and expand the Ca Mau - Dam Doi route (section from Xom Ruong bridge to Hai Thuong Lan Ong street).

In addition to the above achievements, Ca Mau province frankly admitted that there are still some difficulties and problems that greatly affect the disbursement of public investment capital such as: the current supply of construction stone is scarce, the selling price is higher than the approved estimate, greatly affecting the progress of construction packages. In selecting consulting units to appraise prices for medical and educational equipment; consulting on setting standards, many consulting units refused to perform due to fear of appraisal, large value, and complexity, so the progress of implementing these packages was affected. Meanwhile, the capacity of some contractors did not meet the requirements, affecting the progress of disbursement of public investment capital.

Speaking at the 4th conference on promoting public investment disbursement in 2025, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Ca Mau province, Mr. Lam Van Bi, requested to thoroughly handle problems related to public investment disbursement within the day, not to let procedures drag on, causing waste of time and effort. Information and procedures on projects must be publicly posted at administrative headquarters for people to easily access and create consensus. Land recovery must be carried out in the right order, ensuring the rights of units and people. For construction units that are behind schedule, investors must urge them, and if they do not meet their commitments, they must consider replacing them. Communes and wards need to prioritize resources to implement resettlement projects for compensation and site clearance, ensuring that the arrangement of administrative units does not affect the progress of public investment disbursement.

Set up 4 working groups to promote disbursement of public investment capital

In order to promptly remove difficulties, speed up the disbursement of public investment capital, and meet the needs in the new situation according to the set plan, from the beginning of August 2025, the Ca Mau Provincial Party Committee decided to establish 4 working groups to monitor, direct the removal of difficulties and obstacles, and promote the disbursement of public investment capital for key projects and works in the province.

Accordingly, Working Group No. 1, headed by Comrade Nguyen Ho Hai, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, supervised two projects: Investment Project to build Ca Mau General Hospital, with a scale of 1,200 beds; Project to build the West sea dyke from Cai Doi Vam to Kenh Nam and embankments to prevent coastal erosion in key sections from Ong Doc River estuary to Bay Hap estuary.

Working Group No. 2 is headed by Comrade Huynh Quoc Viet, Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. This working group is in charge of 8 projects.

Working Group No. 3, headed by Deputy Secretary and Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Pham Van Thieu, will be in charge of 5 projects.

Working Group No. 4, headed by Comrade Pham Thanh Ngai, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, will be in charge of 3 projects.

According to the decision, the teams will monitor the progress of public investment disbursement and the implementation results of each project; compensation, support, resettlement, site relocation and handover for project implementation; clearly identify the causes (subjective and objective) affecting the implementation progress; direct specific solutions for each project. At the same time, consider the responsibilities in leadership, direction, urging, inspection, review, and handling of difficulties, obstacles, and bottlenecks in public investment disbursement at each agency, locality, and investor, including the responsibilities of the head.

To promote the disbursement of the 2025 Public Investment Plan, ensuring the disbursement progress according to the set plan, the People's Committee of Ca Mau province has directed departments, branches and investors to seriously implement the assigned tasks and solutions in Action Program No. 01/CTr-UBND dated January 19, 2025, the Scenario of Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) in 2025 and the period 2026 - 2030 of the Provincial People's Committee and documents directing and urging the implementation of the 2025 Public Investment Plan of the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee. At the same time, Ca Mau proposed to adjust the Medium-term Public Investment Plan for the period 2021 - 2025 and 2025 of the central budget capital of Ca Mau province after consolidation, and recommended the Ministry of Finance to promptly review, synthesize and submit to competent authorities for decision to implement according to regulations. In order to soon have a legal basis to implement the 2025 Public Investment Plan for the Central budget capital of Ca Mau province after consolidation, ensuring disbursement progress in 2025.

Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of three key projects recently, Chairman of the People's Committee of Ca Mau province Pham Thanh Ngai affirmed that the province is determined to quickly and synchronously deploy to soon complete all site clearance work, relocate technical infrastructure and promptly disburse allocated capital, ensuring progress is met.

Focus on propaganda and mobilization so that people understand, agree with and comply well with the Party and State's policies and guidelines, resolutely not to let projects be delayed due to site clearance problems, especially promptly resolving difficulties and problems, implementing openly, transparently and objectively; ensuring that people's new residences must be better than their old ones, which is both the responsibility and commitment of the province to the people.

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