Can Tho City: Request to speed up disbursement of public investment capital

In 2025, the Government assigned more than VND 27,600 billion to Can Tho City to implement the public investment plan. However, by September 30, the city had only disbursed more than VND 9,550 billion, reaching 34.5% of the plan; 15.5% lower than the average disbursement rate nationwide.

Disbursement rate is still low

Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee Truong Canh Tuyen and city vice chairmen chaired the regular meeting for the first 9 months of 2025

On the afternoon of October 14, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Can Tho City Truong Canh Tuyen and the city's vice chairmen chaired a meeting with departments, branches, and investors on the socio -economic development situation and implementation and disbursement of public investment capital in the first 9 months of 2025.

The leaders of the Department of Finance reported that in 2025, the Prime Minister assigned more than VND 27,682 billion for public investment. Of which, the local budget is more than VND 12,454 billion; the central budget is more than VND 9,207 billion; the source of increased revenue, reduction and savings of the central budget in 2021-2022 is more than VND 6,000 billion.

Can Tho City People's Council allocated more than VND 29,317 billion in public investment capital for 2025, VND 1,634 billion higher than the capital allocated by the Government.

By September 30, the city allocated 93.89% of the plan for public investment capital, the remaining capital not yet allocated in detail: 1,792,152 billion VND.

The leaders of the Department of Finance reported on capital allocation and disbursement results in the first 9 months of the year.

Regarding the disbursement results in the first 9 months of the year, the city disbursed more than 9,551/27,682 billion VND (capital allocated by the Government), reaching 34.5% of the plan; Regarding the capital allocated by the City People's Council, only more than 9,551/29,317 billion VND was disbursed, reaching more than 32.5% of the plan.

According to statistics, there are 67 key projects with a total investment of over 100 billion VND, with capital allocation of over 20,214,339 billion VND, accounting for nearly 69% of public investment capital in 2025. But by September 30, the disbursement rate only reached over 5,887 billion VND, reaching over 29.1%.

Thus, in the first 9 months of the year, the city has only disbursed more than 34.5%. Meanwhile, according to the plan to disburse public investment capital for important and key projects of the City People's Committee, by the end of the third quarter, it will reach 60% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister, and by the whole year of 2025, it will reach 100%.

Why is the disbursement rate low?

Director of the Management Board of Investment Projects for Construction of Traffic and Agricultural Works of Can Tho City Le Minh Cuong reports on the disbursement of projects invested by the unit.

The leaders of the Department of Finance determined that the reason for the low disbursement rate was that investors were stuck with compensation, support and resettlement. Specifically, there were 13 projects stuck with this work, involving hundreds of households that needed to be considered for compensation and resettlement support.

In particular, the project to upgrade and expand National Highway 91 (section from Km0-Km7) is facing many difficulties as there are still 98 cases that have not met to consider legality, 156 cases have not been approved by the compensation, support and resettlement council, 496 cases have not been approved and 6 technical infrastructure works; 565 cases have not issued land recovery decisions.

In addition, there is also the cause of scarcity of construction materials (especially sand for filling) leading to construction units not achieving progress as planned, resulting in disbursement rate not meeting requirements.

The leader of the Management Board of Investment Projects for Construction of Traffic and Agricultural Works of Can Tho City informed that the unit was assigned more than 15,000 billion VND, and has disbursed more than 5,000 billion VND so far. The reason for the low disbursement rate is because the unit is implementing unfinished projects from previous years, while simultaneously implementing the expressway project and a number of key projects with large capital sources.

Therefore, when these projects encounter difficulties in sand sources for filling, site clearance, etc., it immediately affects the overall disbursement rate of the unit.

In the coming time, the Management Board of Investment Projects for Construction of Traffic and Agricultural Works of Can Tho City will urge and remind contractors to urgently construct and ensure the progress of the project.

In the coming time, the unit will urge contractors to strengthen the construction work "3 shifts 4 shifts"; resolutely handle weak contractors who do not meet the committed progress. In addition, the unit recommends that the City People's Committee give instructions to the Land Fund Center, leaders of communes and wards, to coordinate with each other to do a good job of site clearance, because many projects are still stuck in this work.

The leader of the Management Board of Investment Projects for Construction of Civil and Industrial Works of Can Tho City said that the unit has been allocated more than 1,750 billion VND by the city and has so far disbursed 39%. It is expected that by the end of October, the unit will reach a disbursement rate of over 50% and by December it will reach over 79%.

Investors of civil and industrial works in the city face the most difficulty in site clearance, which affects the disbursement rate, which is not as high as planned.

To achieve the capital disbursement plan, this unit proposed that the city adjust the capital allocation to have a surplus of 600 billion. In addition, this unit also recommended that communes, wards, and the City Land Fund Development Center coordinate to urgently carry out site clearance work, because the total site clearance capital of about 2,000 billion VND (including the Project Management Board for Investment in Construction of Civil and Industrial Works and the Regional Board) has only disbursed 200 billion VND so far, thus greatly affecting the disbursement rate of the unit.

Leaders of Can Tho City Land Fund Development Center spoke at the meeting

The leader of the City Land Fund Development Center said that recently, the unit has urgently completed its staff, mobilized forces to coordinate with communes and wards to carry out site clearance work but has not achieved the desired results. The unit agrees with the recommendations of the investor and the city to establish an interdisciplinary working group to support communes and wards (where the area of ​​land acquisition is large) because currently there are only 2 officers in charge of this work, so it is overloaded.

Concluding the meeting, Chairman of the People's Committee of Can Tho City Truong Canh Tuyen acknowledged that in the first 9 months of the year, the city's economic growth was relatively stable although not increasing strongly compared to the scenario, the investment environment continued to improve... However, with the recent growth potential, ensuring double digits by the end of the year is extremely difficult.

The most worrying issue is that the disbursement progress is lower than the national average; infrastructure in terms of transportation, health care, and education is still limited and degraded...

Leaders of Can Tho City People's Committee listened to reports from departments and branches on difficulties and problems in disbursing public investment capital.

Therefore, in the fourth quarter, the Chairman of the People's Committee of Can Tho City requested departments, branches and localities to accelerate and truly unite in developing plans and solutions to direct implementation to have solutions, review targets and tasks of each unit, direct implementation, and strive to ensure the completion of the 2025 plan. At the same time, review unfinished regular expenditure tasks and prepare additional estimates for regular expenses. The Department of Finance considers adjusting the public investment capital plan for 2025 and the 2021-2025 period.

Communes and wards promptly grasp the aspirations and motivate civil servants, public employees and workers. Continue to review the organizational work within each agency and unit, arrange appropriate staff positions, and support departments and branches for communes and wards, especially key communes and wards with many projects, promptly and qualitatively handle arising tasks.

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