On the afternoon of October 19, in Can Tho City, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a conference on the implementation of expressway projects in the Mekong Delta.
The conference was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha, leaders of ministries, central agencies, Secretaries, Chairmen of localities in the Mekong Delta, project management boards, and contractors.
Currently, in the Mekong Delta region, the Ministry of Construction and localities are implementing 11 expressway component projects/projects with a total length of 434.7 km.
In which, the Ministry of Construction is the managing agency of 5 component projects with a total length of more than 211 km; localities are the managing agency of 6 component projects with a total length of 216.93 km.
According to the report of the Ministry of Construction, localities have granted licenses to exploit 63.31 million m3 of sand for the projects (compared to the demand of 54.2 million m3), however, the permitted exploitation capacity has not met the project implementation progress. Regarding stone materials, the total demand of the projects is 8.6 million m3, and the source of 5.5 million m3 has been identified.
Concluding the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that the bottleneck of the Mekong Delta is high-quality human resources and strategic infrastructure, including transport infrastructure. According to the Prime Minister, the two areas of human resource training and infrastructure development in the Mekong Delta must go ahead, pave the way, accelerate, make breakthroughs, be more accelerated and bold.
The Prime Minister emphasized that the Party and State are very interested in the Mekong Delta region, in the spirit of " saying, doing, committing to do, doing, doing, doing is effective".
The Prime Minister stated that it is necessary to strive to complete and exceed the set targets for expressway projects in the Mekong Delta, contributing to the completion of the target of 3,000 km of expressway in 2025. This is a political task, an order of the heart, a responsibility to the Mekong Delta, an aspiration of the people for the country to develop rapidly and sustainably. It is expected that by 2026, this area will have about 600 km of highways.
In the coming time, the Prime Minister requested that relevant entities promote the patriotism and responsibility of Party members and the heart for the people to act, say less and do more.
Regarding construction materials, the Prime Minister directed Can Tho, An Giang, Dong Thap, and Vinh Long localities to proactively review, increase capacity, open new mines, and flexibly transfer material sources between projects... The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment provides guidance on mine capacity. Localities should proactively resolve problems according to their authority, if they exceed their authority, they should report to the Prime Minister.
Localities where projects pass through direct departments, branches and sectors to announce material prices, construction price indexes in compliance with regulations, announced prices must be consistent with market price level and market supply capacity.
In particular, the Prime Minister directed relevant agencies to conduct inspections, checks, and investigations if there are signs, promptly detect and strictly handle violations related to construction materials.
In addition, do not let market manipulation, hoarding, and price increases; do not let congestion, lack of raw materials, do not let negativity, corruption, do not let the situation of not exploiting, not buying domestic raw materials at cheap prices but buying from foreign countries at high prices.
At the same time, pay attention to environmental issues, landslides, and subsidence during the exploitation and supply of materials.
