Today (April 30), while the whole country is immersed in a long holiday, at the Huu Nghi - Chi Lang expressway construction site, thousands of workers and engineers are still diligently sticking to machines and routes.
Directly recorded by reporters at the scene on April 30, the harsh sun of the changing seasons did not reduce the bustling construction pace on the Huu Nghi - Chi Lang expressway.
Throughout the road stretching through Lang Son province, the sound of excavators, rollers, and trucks carrying materials echoed continuously.
In the Km41+450 bridgehead road area, dozens of heavy equipment and worker teams are highly focused on constructing the crushed stone base layer (CPDD).
Not far away, in the Km43+035 hill area, groups of engineers and workers are hanging on mountain cliffs to drill and reinforce the positive taluy slope.
This is one of the items that requires high technology and absolute safety, especially as the rainy and storm season in the northern mountainous region is approaching.
Quickly wiping away the sweat on his forehead, Mr. Bui Van Nam of the construction team of DCT 559 Investment Joint Stock Company shared: "The brothers decided to work through the holiday from a few days ago. The construction site is in the final sprint stage, the weather is favorable, so we have to take advantage of working day and night.
Although we are not allowed to return to our hometown for holidays with our families, the company has a good encouragement regime, and we all tell each other to try to complete the assigned tasks.
Besides the main route construction teams, the system of people's roads, service roads and the completion of the bridge cones are also being deployed simultaneously.
The organization of construction throughout the holidays of Hung Kings Commemoration Day and April 30 - May 1 is part of the peak construction campaign lasting from April 25 to May 3, 2026 of the entire project.
According to the latest updated data from the Project Management Board, to maintain this pace, 2,599 personnel and 1,195 equipment and machinery are mobilized.
The entire route is maintaining 131 simultaneous construction fronts on all 5 bidding packages within a scope of 59.2 km that have been handed over land.
Thanks to the spirit of drastic pursuit, so far the roadbed excavation work has reached over 20.5 million m3 (equivalent to 95.95% of the plan); K95 foundation filling has reached over 10.6 million m3 (94.63%); 100% of drilled piles and prestressed girder casting have been completed.
Talking to PV, Mr. Tran Van Chuan - Director of the Project Management Board (PMB), Huu Nghi - Chi Lang Expressway Joint Stock Company said that this holiday-long acceleration is extremely important for the overall roadmap.
Up to now, the realized value from the start of construction has reached about 5,587 billion VND, equivalent to more than 70% of the contract value.
However, due to some objective difficulties in the past time such as local obstacles in site clearance, fluctuations in fuel prices and the shortage of stone material sources when many projects are being implemented at the same time, the overall progress is still about 2.64% slower than the adjusted plan," Mr. Chuan shared.
To overcome this situation, Mr. Chuan emphasized: "This holiday is the golden time for the project to accelerate. We have requested contractors to focus all their efforts, work overtime, and increase shifts at the construction site, but still strictly comply with labor safety regulations.
At the same time, the Project Management Board is also continuously proposing and closely coordinating with the Lang Son provincial government to definitively resolve land bottlenecks for the remaining 35 households and service road locations, creating clean ground for simultaneous construction".
