On the morning of July 16, in Hanoi, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a national online conference of the Standing Government on promoting public investment in 2024.
According to the Government Office, the conference was connected online from the Government headquarters to the headquarters of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities.
Also attending the conference were Deputy Prime Ministers: Le Minh Khai, Tran Hong Ha, Tran Luu Quang, Le Thanh Long; leaders of ministries, branches, central and local agencies, representatives of corporations and state-owned corporations.
In his opening speech, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized the meaning, role and importance of investment, including public investment.
Currently, our country is prioritizing growth according to the conclusions of the Central Committee and resolutions of the National Assembly and the Government. To do this, it is necessary to promote growth drivers, including investment, including domestic and foreign investment, direct and indirect, public investment, social investment and people.
The Central Government's conclusion affirmed that public investment should lead private investment, activating all social resources to serve development.
Along with that, public investment is important for implementing strategic breakthroughs in infrastructure, especially the goal of having 3,000 km of highways by 2025 and 5,000 km of highways by 2030. Invest in creating new development space, new urban areas, new industrial parks and activating other socio-economic activities.
The Prime Minister pointed out that in recent times, the Government and the Prime Minister have always paid attention and directed drastically and closely to promote the disbursement of public investment capital and implement 3 national target programs.
5 working groups of the Prime Minister and 26 working groups of Government members work with localities to check and urge the disbursement of public investment capital.
However, in addition to the good work done, localities, agencies and fields achieved positive results, the results of disbursement of public investment capital in the first 6 months of 2024 compared to the set requirements and the amount of capital assigned. still low.
The Prime Minister asked delegates to discuss and evaluate the situation, positive aspects, achieved results, unsatisfactory aspects, shortcomings, limitations, analyze objective and subjective causes, and obstacles. problems, "bottlenecks", clarify why the same mechanism and policy, some places work well, some places do not work well, summarize valuable experiences, good lessons.
At the same time, identify solutions and tasks to promote public investment in 2024, striving to disburse over 95% of the capital plan assigned by the Prime Minister, contributing to promoting growth.
According to a report from the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the total state budget investment plan for 2024 decided by the National Assembly to allocate to ministries, central agencies and localities is more than 669,264 billion VND, including capital. Central budget is more than 236,915 billion VND (domestic capital is more than 216,915 billion VND, foreign capital is 20,000 billion VND), local budget capital is more than 432,348 billion VND.
Regarding implementation and disbursement, according to the report of the Ministry of Finance, the estimated payment from the beginning of the year to June 30, 2024 is 196,669 billion VND, reaching 29.39% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister.
Disbursement of capital for the socio-economic recovery and development program is 4,781.7 billion VND, reaching 78.23% of the plan, the national target program is 9,644.6 billion VND, reaching 35.43% of the plan. plan.
Many ministries, central agencies and localities have proactively and drastically implemented tasks and solutions to guide the handling and removal of problems and difficulties in a timely and effective manner, to speed up the progress of solving problems. public investment capital.
