The Thong Nhat Area Land and Technical Infrastructure Clearance Project to serve the site clearance of the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong Railway Construction Investment Project - was approved by the Lao Cai Provincial People's Committee on June 12, 2025 under Decision No. 1841/QD-UBND.
This is a Group B project with a total approved investment of 240 billion VND, the unit assigned as the Project Investor is the Lao Cai Provincial Construction Investment Project Management Board.
According to the investigation of Lao Dong Newspaper reporters, on October 15, the Lao Cai Provincial Construction Investment Project Management Board posted on the National Bidding Network System the decision to approve the contractor selection results of Package No. 15.
According to the decision, the approved contractor for Package No. 15: Construction of the project (including equipment and acceptance of the handover of the power plant) is Truong Son Construction Corporation. The winning bid price is more than 71.7 billion VND.
Thus, Truong Son Construction Corporation will construct Package No. 15 of this project, the construction site is in Gia Phu commune, Lao Cai province (Gia Phu commune was established on the basis of merging 3 communes of Bao Thang district, the old Lao Cai province, Xuan Giao, Thong Nhat and Gia Phu).
According to the project documents, the package will construct items such as: Traffic roads, leveling, surface drainage, power supply, water supply according to the approved detailed plan.
The total leveling area of the entire project is about 11.98 hectares and is divided into 6 levels. 6 new traffic routes will be built with a length of 2,948m.
The surface drainage system is completed according to the approved detailed plan; build and complete the wastewater collection system in the project area.
The water source for the project is taken from the common clean water supply network of the water supply system of Tang Loong town (now Tang Loong commune) managed by Lao Cai Province Water Supply Joint Stock Company...
The project will be implemented to create a site to arrange and relocate production facilities in the Dong Pho Moi industrial cluster and Son Man Industrial cluster to serve the site clearance for the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway construction investment project.
The Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway line has a total preliminary investment of VND203,231 billion, equivalent to USD8.37 billion. The National Assembly has approved this plan under Resolution 187/2025/QH15 with the goal of starting construction in December 2025 and completing it by 2030 at the latest.
The railway line is nearly 391km long, starting at the rail connection point across the border (Lao Cai province), ending at Lach Huyen station (Hai Phong), nearly 391km long; branch line length 27.9km, passing through the provinces: Lao Cai, Phu Tho, Hanoi, Bac Ninh, Hung Yen, and Hai Phong.
The railway line is invested in a new single track, 1,435m wide, transporting passengers and goods together; designed speed of 160km/h with the main line from the new Lao Cai station to Nam Hai Phong station; designed speed of 120km/h with the section passing through the Hanoi city hub; speed of 80km/h with the remaining sections.
