The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just issued a document directing departments, branches, sectors, and People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones to focus on accelerating the disbursement of public investment capital in the last months of 2025.
After merging with Binh Duong, Ba Ria - Vung Tau, Ho Chi Minh City was assigned by the Government a public investment capital plan of nearly VND 119,000 billion.
As of December 5, the total disbursed capital reached VND 73,812 billion, equivalent to about 61% of the plan assigned by the Government.
From now until the end of the disbursement period (31.2026), Ho Chi Minh City needs to disburse more than VND45,000 billion to be able to complete the target of disbursing 100% of the allocated capital.
Faced with this great pressure, the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee identified the disbursement of public investment capital as the top important political task, and at the same time, the criterion for evaluating the level of task completion of cadres and leaders.
The leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee requested units to urgently allocate the entire remaining 2025 capital plan that has not been assigned in detail (if any), focusing on disbursing public investment capital and national target program capital. Key projects, important national projects, inter-regional projects, expressways and projects with high spillover must be prioritized to speed up progress.
The Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee assigned heads of departments, branches and sectors; Chairmen of People's Committees of communes, wards and special zones; Directors of project management boards to proactively promptly remove obstacles in procedures, land, resources, site clearance; strengthen discipline and order in public investment disbursement. The assignment and coordination between agencies must be clear in their people, work, and responsibilities.
Notably, the City requires strict handling according to legal regulations for investors, project management boards, organizations and individuals who intentionally cause difficulties, hinder or slow down the progress of capital allocation and disbursement.
Timely replace cadres, civil servants and public employees who are weak in capacity, slow, cause harassment and inconvenience; resolutely handle negative behaviors in public investment management.
The leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee also directed to strengthen inspection and examination of the allocation of material mines; strictly handle the situation of handing over mines to the wrong subjects, causing buying and selling activities, pushing up the price of construction materials. Units must regularly monitor market developments, promptly announce construction material prices according to their authority, and strictly control prices.
In addition, investors and project management boards must develop a detailed disbursement plan for each project every week and every month, from now until January 31, 2026. Each project must assign specific leaders responsible for monitoring progress and being directly responsible for disbursement results, considering this as the basis for classifying the level of task completion in 2025.
The city requires strengthening inspection, supervision of the site, urging contractors and consultants to speed up construction; at the same time, promoting payment and settlement of public investment capital, not leaving any backlog of completed but unpaid volumes.
For the 3 Public Investment Disbursement Working Groups, the departments assigned as standing agencies must continue to promote efficiency, strengthen field inspection, handle in the spirit of "on-site decision, on-site resolution", monitor and urge the implementation of the conclusions of the working groups.
