Because public investment is not only the blood flow that nourishes infrastructure works, but also a key driving force to promote economic recovery, solve employment, stimulate consumption and unlock social resources.
In reality, the efforts that are taking place strongly in many localities are clear evidence of that determination.
For example, Can Tho, although the disbursement rate by the end of March 2025 is still quite low, reaching only 8.9% of the detailed plan, the city government has soon frankly acknowledged the bottlenecks such as lack of construction materials, especially sand for filling.
Without blaming objectively, Can Tho proactively made recommendations to the Government, ministries, branches and neighboring localities to resolve the issue, while synchronously implementing solutions to direct and check progress.
Or Ho Chi Minh City, with the largest public investment capital scale in the country in 2025 (more than 84,000 billion VND), is also entering the acceleration phase. The establishment of a Working Group to promote disbursement and assign specific tasks to each department, district and county shows the strong determination of local authorities.
However, looking into reality, it can be seen that to thoroughly resolve difficulties in public investment disbursement, the individual efforts of localities are not enough.
There are still many bottlenecks in construction materials, land planning, site clearance... and this reality requires more synchronous coordination and proactiveness from central ministries and branches to localities. Accelerating public investment disbursement is therefore not only a story of completing financial targets, but also a test of management and operation capacity, of the ability to coordinate between sectors and regions.
People and businesses are waiting for each bridge, each road, each new urban area to grow up to feel the new vitality of the economy. If we slow down, do recklessly, or do slowly out of fear of responsibility, the damage will not only be insensible numbers, but a loss of confidence in the determination to develop the country.
Therefore, public investment disbursement needs to be promoted in the spirit of " early dismantling - doing quickly - strict control". It is necessary to empower localities more strongly, while tightening discipline and investment discipline.
Only when the State capital flows smoothly can we create a spillover effect, activating private capital sources, contributing to the country's socio-economic breakthrough in the coming period.
