Determined to complete the public investment disbursement plan

By the end of October 16, 2025, the country's public investment disbursement reached 50.7% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister. To complete the target of 100% disbursement in 2025, ministries, branches and localities have been making efforts to remove obstacles and be proactive and determined in organizing implementation.

Still difficult and entangled

According to the Ministry of Finance , the total public investment plan from the state budget in 2025 assigned by the Prime Minister is VND897,253 billion. The total capital allocated by ministries, central agencies and localities is more than VND871,051 billion, reaching 97.1%. By the end of October 16, 2025, the whole country has disbursed VND454,947 billion, reaching 50.7% of the capital plan assigned by the Prime Minister. There are 9 ministries, agencies and 16 localities with disbursement rates above the national average.

Can Tho City synchronously deploys solutions to remove difficulties for key projects, speeding up the disbursement of public investment capital.

Mr. Do Thanh Trung, Deputy Minister of Finance, said: Disbursement of public investment capital is identified as one of the key political tasks. The Government and the Prime Minister have paid great attention and given close and decisive direction right from the beginning of the year. The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Ministers have continuously inspected localities, directly removed legal and procedural obstacles, and inspected the field progress of key national projects. To speed up the progress, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 2773/QD-TTg dated October 16, 2025 to adjust the central budget capital plan from ministries and localities with low disbursement to ministries and localities in need of additional capital. The work of perfecting institutions continues to be promoted; Strengthening decentralization, decentralization, cutting and simplifying processes, procedures, documents... Accordingly, public investment capital is focused on key infrastructure projects, highways, airports, high-speed railways, creating new development momentum for regions and localities. Since the beginning of the year, more than 455km of highways have been completed; 364km of new highways have been started, aiming to complete the target of 3,000km by the end of 2025.

However, according to the leaders of the Ministry of Finance, the remaining capital that has not been allocated in detail is over 26,203 billion VND. This capital is mainly the additional part from increased revenue, savings in expenditure in 2024 and capital that has just been transferred from low-disbursement units to units with urgent needs. There are 29 ministries, agencies and 18 localities with disbursement rates below the national average. In particular, the reasons leading to slow progress in disbursement of public investment capital are that localities after the merger have not yet completed their apparatus, do not have officials in charge of public investment, and have limited capacity in acceptance and payment. Some ministries and localities have to readjust the list and scale of projects, prolonging the investment preparation process. Difficulties in compensation and site clearance such as determining land prices, assessing compensation, and lacking resettlement funds; Scarcity of construction materials, prices of sand, stone, and soil increased 1.5-2 times, causing costs to increase, affecting construction progress...

Raise the sense of responsibility

At the recent national online conference to promote public investment in 2025 (4th time), ministries, branches and localities focused on clarifying the existing problems, difficulties, obstacles and causes leading to slow and prolonged capital disbursement time. Thereby, proposing ways to remove difficulties in the coming time, determined to disburse capital according to the assigned plan.

According to Mr. Tran Hong Minh, Minister of Construction, as of October 15, 2025, the disbursement rate of public investment capital of the industry reached 42.6% of the plan. Recently, there are still problems in some large projects related to slow progress of site clearance. The Ministry of Construction requested localities related to the project to actively coordinate to speed up the progress.

Thoroughly implementing the disbursement of public investment capital is a key political task. Localities continue to closely follow the directions of the Government and the Prime Minister, resolutely and synchronously deploy solutions to accelerate the disbursement of public investment capital. Mr. Truong Canh Tuyen, Chairman of the People's Committee of Can Tho City, said: The Standing Committee of the City Party Committee has established 6 working groups to review and remove difficulties for key projects in the city. In July 2025, after merging 3 localities, the City People's Committee established working groups, reviewed project difficulties and obstacles, and synthesized and submitted them to the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee for consideration and removal in the remaining months of this year. This October, the city continues to review and handle contractors with weak capacity to switch to contractors with better capacity. At the same time, review and adjust the planned capital for 2025 in a number of projects that no longer need to use capital, and there is still surplus in the bidding process. Establish specialized teams with the Department of Agriculture and Environment, the Department of Construction and the Department of Finance to directly support a number of key communes with many projects related to site clearance work... in implementing the authority of the commune-level investment sector.

Chairing the recent online conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested ministers, heads of sectors, and chairmen of provincial People's Committees to uphold their sense of responsibility and strive to complete the target of disbursing public investment capital in 2025. Regularly review, urge, promptly detect and remove difficulties and obstacles arising from each project, promote key projects; specify responsibilities to each individual, consider disbursement results as one of the important bases for assessing the level of completion of annual tasks of organizations and individuals. Review and evaluate the disbursement implementation status for each project; classify projects according to the disbursement level, have specific and appropriate solutions, promote disbursement to achieve the set target. Urgently allocate the entire public investment capital plan for 2025 in detail. At the same time, regularly review and promptly adjust capital from projects with slow disbursement or no disbursement capacity to projects with good disbursement capacity and need for additional capital. Resolutely carry out site clearance work, mobilize the entire political system to participate. Enhance discipline, strengthen inspection and supervision; strictly handle investors, project management boards, and contractors who intentionally cause difficulties, obstruct, and slow down the progress of capital allocation and disbursement; review and promptly handle weak and negative officials who do not complete assigned tasks.

Article and photos: T. TRINH

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