Prime Minister criticizes a series of ministries and localities for "having money but not being able to spend it"

(Dan Tri) - By the end of August, 29 ministries, agencies and 12 localities had disbursement rates below the national average. The Prime Minister criticized and asked these units to review, learn from experience and clarify responsibilities.

On the morning of September 17, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Deputy Prime Ministers chaired the National Conference to promote public investment by 2025 (3rd time).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh acknowledged that public investment disbursement in 2025 has made much progress, achieving higher results than the same period in 2024, but there are still bottlenecks and bottlenecks, and a gap compared to the requirements.

In the context of more difficulties and challenges than opportunities and advantages, the Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and localities to firmly maintain the goal of stabilizing the macro- economy , controlling inflation, promoting growth and ensuring the major balance of the economy.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Deputy Prime Ministers chaired the National Conference to promote public investment in 2025 (Photo: Doan Bac).

The Head of Government emphasized the need to promote public investment more strongly, more drastically, more effectively, improve the quality of public investment, and prevent corruption, negativity, and waste.

According to the Prime Minister, it is necessary to promote the role of growth engine, consider public investment capital as the seed capital to activate, lead and mobilize all social resources, contributing to promoting growth, creating jobs, livelihoods, and improving the material and spiritual life of the people.

In addition, we must change our old mindset, way of thinking, and way of doing things, and not let them stagnate. “What has been done well must continue to be promoted, what has not been done well must be strived to do better, mistakes must be dealt with, and obstacles must be resolved,” the Prime Minister emphasized.

According to the report, in the first 8 months of the year, the whole country disbursed public investment capital of VND 409,000 billion, reaching 46.3% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister, an increase of 5.9% in proportion and an increase of more than VND 135,000 billion in absolute number compared to the same period in 2024.

There are 9 ministries, central agencies and 22 localities with estimated disbursement rates above the national average. Of which, some ministries, agencies and localities are assigned large plans and have high disbursement rates: Ministry of National Defense (disbursement rate of 54.5%), Ministry of Public Security (disbursement rate of 64.8%), Thanh Hoa (disbursement rate of 90.6%), Ninh Binh (disbursement rate of 90.1%), Phu Tho (disbursement rate of 74.08%), Bac Ninh (disbursement rate of 64.6%), Gia Lai (disbursement rate of 62.8%).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked many ministries and localities to review the slow disbursement of public investment capital (Photo: Doan Bac).

The Government leaders highly appreciated the results that ministries, branches and localities have strived to achieve, especially 9 ministries, central agencies and 22 localities with disbursement rates reaching the national average or higher.

Besides, according to the Prime Minister, there are still shortcomings in public investment disbursement; bidding and inspection work still has many limitations; handling of violations and delays in management and use of public investment capital is not timely and strict.

Some localities are still not proactive, not resolute, still confused in direction and management, have low sense of responsibility, even have the mentality of avoiding, shirking responsibility, waiting in the process of arranging and organizing the apparatus...

In addition, 18 ministries, central agencies and 30 localities have not yet allocated all the capital plans assigned by the Prime Minister with a total capital of nearly 38,400 billion VND. By the end of August, 29 ministries, agencies and 12 localities had disbursement rates below the national average.

The Prime Minister criticized and requested these ministries, central and local agencies to review and learn from experience, clarify the collective and individual responsibilities involved, and on that basis propose appropriate solutions to promote disbursement in the coming time.

Government leaders require considering public investment disbursement results as a criterion for evaluating officials and work results.

Delegates attending the meeting (Photo: Doan Bac).

To ensure 100% disbursement of public investment capital in 2025, the Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and localities to review and evaluate the disbursement situation for each project; classify projects according to disbursement level to build disbursement progress by month and quarter and have solutions to promote this.

With the capital plan of 38,400 billion VND assigned, the Prime Minister directed units to urgently allocate; 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.

Government leaders thoroughly handle strictly investors, project management boards, and contractors who intentionally cause difficulties, hinder, and slow down capital allocation and disbursement progress; review and promptly handle weak and negative officials who do not complete assigned tasks.

The Prime Minister called on ministries, branches, and local agencies, especially their leaders, to promote the highest sense of responsibility in disbursing public investment, avoiding stagnation and "having money but not being able to spend it".

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/thoi-su/thu-tuong-phe-binh-loat-bo-nganh-dia-phuong-vi-co-tien-khong-tieu-duoc-20250917135813136.htm