Can Tho proposes to remove obstacles
According to the report, in 2025, Can Tho City was assigned a public investment plan of more than VND 12,097 billion, including VND 5,833 billion from the local budget and VND 6,264 billion from the central budget.
By March 31, 2025, Can Tho had allocated VND 10,443.354 billion in details and achieved a disbursement result of VND 931.327 billion, equivalent to 8.9% of the capital plan assigned by the City People's Committee in detail and reached 7.7% of the capital plan assigned by the Prime Minister. According to the assessment, the current public investment disbursement rate in Can Tho is still low, not meeting the set requirements.
On April 23, Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee Truong Canh Tuyen signed and issued Official Letter No. 1838/UBND-XDDT to direct relevant departments, branches, sectors and localities to synchronously deploy solutions to ensure the progress of public investment disbursement in 2025.
Regarding the causes of disbursement of public investment, the People's Committee of Can Tho City said that in the process of implementing projects, Can Tho is facing a number of great difficulties, especially there is no decree guiding public investment law in 2024. This has hindered the adjustment of investment policies, detailed the medium and annual capital plans from the legal revenue sources of public non -business units for investment. Above all, the shortage of construction materials sources, especially the demand for sand leveling as at the Chau Doc - Can Tho - Soc Trang highway project, is very large, but the supply from local and neighboring sand mines is not enough to meet.
Since then, the People's Committee of Can Tho City has made recommendations to the Government, ministries and central branches to soon issue a Decree to guide the Law on Public Investment in 2024 and allow the extension of public investment capital in 2024 to 2025 central budget capital for 2 projects of Chau Doc - Can Tho - Soc Trang Expressway Phase 1, the section through Can Tho City and O Mon River embankment project. Can Tho also proposed the People's Committee of Tien Giang and An Giang province to continue supporting the supply of sand and leveling and procedures in the process of material exploitation.
Quang Ninh basically removes the problem of raw materials for site clearance
If in the first 2 months of the year, the public investment disbursement rate of Quang Ninh only reached 2.5% of the plan, in which some units had a disbursement rate of 0, then up to now, there has been strong growth.
According to the Department of Finance of Quang Ninh Province, in the first quarter of 2025, Quang Ninh was estimated to disburse public investment capital of VND 1,209 billion, reaching 10.2%of the year's delivery plan, higher than the same period of 2024 (7.7%), higher than the whole country (9.5%). The site clearance, especially the source of leveling materials - one of the key issues that have long been backlog - has been removed, contributing to speeding up public investment.
Mr. Pham Hong Bien - Director of the Department of Finance of Quang Ninh province - said that currently, the projects have been basically resolved, especially those identified as the driving force and key of sectors and localities. In particular, the riverside road project connecting Ha Long - Hai Phong expressway to Dong Trieu city has basically solved the source of filling materials, so the roadbed construction progress is being implemented very urgently by the contractor consortium.
The 2025 capital plan of Quang Ninh province is VND 13,002 billion, VND 1,096 billion higher than the planning of the provincial People's Council at the beginning of the year (VND 11,906 billion). Quang Ninh province aims to be on June 30, 2025, expected to disburse 5,484 billion dong, reaching 46% of the first year's assigned plan.
HCMC accelerates disbursement of public investment capital
In 2025, the Government assigned Ho Chi Minh City a public investment capital plan of up to VND84,149 billion. However, as of March 21, the city has only disbursed VND3,425 billion, reaching a rate of 4.1%.
According to Mr. Pham Trung Kien - Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Finance, there are many objective reasons why the disbursement progress at the beginning of the year is slow. The characteristics of public investment are often different from recurrent expenditures, when disbursement at the beginning of the year and accelerate in the last months, because the units are in the bidding and construction period to accumulate volume. Many projects are still using advance capital from the previous year, affecting the new disbursement plan.
In addition, the shortage of construction materials and delays in site clearance are also bottlenecks that need to be removed. The project to adjust the general planning of Ho Chi Minh City to 2040, with a vision to 2040, has not been approved.
To overcome this situation, Mr. Pham Trung Kien said that Ho Chi Minh City prioritizes promoting disbursement of key project groups such as: Investment preparation projects and groundbreaking in 2025; projects with compensation and site clearance; projects to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification; BOT project groups implemented according to Resolution 98 of the National Assembly.
The city also assigned tasks to each department, branch and locality such as the Department of Finance, Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Department of Construction, State Treasury of Region 2, Thu Duc City People's Committee and districts... These units are required to take serious action, focusing on removing obstacles in procedures and records to speed up the implementation progress and payment of investment capital.
In particular, the Disbursement Promotion Working Group headed by Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Bui Xuan Cuong was established. The working group is responsible for urging progress, clearly assigning responsibilities and providing timely measures to increase the disbursement rate in 2025 to meet the plan.
