Meeting on basic construction work in the fourth quarter of 2024

On the afternoon of November 6, the Provincial People's Committee held a meeting to review basic construction work in the fourth quarter of 2024. Comrade Vu Van Dien, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the meeting.

As of October 31, 2024, the total adjusted public investment capital plan is 16,152 billion VND, an increase of 1,871 billion VND compared to the plan assigned by the Provincial People's Council at the beginning of the year. Up to now, the disbursement rate has not met expectations, only reaching 36% of the plan; the disbursement rate of scoring capital and national target programs has not met the set plan; the recovery of advances has not met the direction of the Provincial People's Committee; the disbursement rate is prolonged and slow...

The investment preparation work has been strongly directed by the Provincial People's Committee since the beginning of the year, in which specific tasks are assigned to departments, branches, investors and local People's Committees in the following documents: Notice No. 28/TB-VP.UBND dated February 21, 2024; Document No. 922/UBND-GTCN&XD dated April 17, 2024; Document No. 2904/VP.UBND-GTCN&XD dated May 21, 2024. However, the investment preparation work of provincial-level public investment projects is still slow and does not ensure compliance with the direction of the Provincial People's Committee.

At the meeting, representatives of departments, branches and localities took time to discuss, review, clarify and specifically analyze the causes of slow capital allocation and disbursement in order to propose solutions to complete basic construction and site clearance work according to plan.

Delegates from departments, branches and localities spoke at the meeting. — Representatives of departments, branches and localities spoke at the meeting.

Comrade Vu Van Dien, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, requested units and localities to seriously implement the directions of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee to create changes and awareness in the field of public investment and construction; at the same time, promote the implementation of anti-corruption and anti-waste in the performance of public duties related to state budget capital in construction investment and public asset management.

He requested that agencies, units, and investors review and re-evaluate each existing content of each project and construction to clearly assess the causes and find solutions. Investors need to review to find out the problems and seriously urge the implementation of the work. Each relevant investment agency and state management agency must uphold its responsibility, review and re-evaluate each project for implementation.

Units and localities must immediately assess the causes and problems in the implementation of public investment disbursement targets, clearly identify weaknesses; immediately develop a control process in the implementation of public investment projects. In the case of overdue contractor advances, investors must identify recoverable and unfeasible advances, and report the recovery to the Department of Finance and the Provincial State Treasury before November 10, 2024.

The Department of Planning and Investment shall preside over and coordinate with investors using provincial budget capital and local People's Committees to focus on reviewing all projects under the medium-term public investment plan for the 2021-2025 period; advise on thoroughly handling difficulties and problems; speed up project implementation progress, finalize and pay off according to plan.

The Department of Transport continues to coordinate with relevant departments, branches and localities to implement and report on the progress of the Project on upgrading rural traffic in Quang Ninh province for the period 2024-2025, with a vision to 2030. Units, departments, branches and localities continue to research and review to implement a number of Resolutions of the Provincial People's Council at the 22nd Session on the fields of budget finance and development investment.

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