The Quy Nhon - Pleiku Expressway Construction Investment Project has a total length of 125km passing through 16 communes and wards of the province; scale of 4 lanes, designed speed of 100km/h, total investment of 43,734 billion VND.
The project is divided into 3 component projects: component 1 (22km long, total investment capital of 6,989 billion VND), component 2 (68km long, total investment capital of 27,576 billion VND) and component 3 (35km long, total investment capital of 9,169 billion VND), implemented from 2025-2029.
Quy Nhon - Pleiku Expressway is an important east-west traffic axis, connecting the South Central Coast region with the Central Highlands, opening up the fastest access direction from the highlands to the seaport and vice versa.
Currently, National Highway 19 is a vital traffic route connecting the east-west region of the province, but there are many winding sloping sections, narrow road surfaces, and high potential for traffic accidents, causing the travel time from Quy Nhon to Pleiku to be about 4 hours. When the expressway is completed, the travel time is expected to be shortened to about 2 hours.
Immediately after the groundbreaking ceremony on December 19, 2025, Gia Lai province directed the investor, units and localities to focus on implementing site clearance (GPMB). However, up to now, the GPMB progress is still very slow, the volume of implementation is still low; some localities have not approved specific land prices, have not approved mechanisms and policies to support GPMB, and have not developed compensation plans.
According to Mr. Nguyen Tu Cong Hoang - Vice Chairman of Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee, if there are no breakthrough and effective solutions in site clearance, it will greatly affect the construction progress of the project. Mr. Hoang requested departments, branches, project site clearance steering committees of localities and commune-level People's Committees to seriously and drastically implement to accelerate the site clearance progress.
Commune-level Party Secretary - Head of the Commune-level GPMB Steering Committee must improve responsibility, directly manage the activities of the Steering Committee; closely monitor work and tasks, not delegate everything to the leaders of the Commune-level People's Committee in the process of implementation, avoiding the situation of not grasping the results, progress, difficulties, and obstacles in the locality.
The Chairman of the commune-level People's Committee must urgently inspect, review, and specifically report on the progress of compensation and site clearance; compare with the required progress to clarify the causes of delays, difficulties, obstacles and propose feasible solutions.
The investor (Provincial Traffic and Civil Works Project Management Board; Provincial Construction Investment Project Management Board) coordinates with localities to inspect and promptly resolve difficulties and obstacles according to their authority; accelerate site clearance for resettlement areas and reburial areas, ensuring to meet the general progress of the project.
