Lesson 1: National key projects
The 500kV circuit 3 Quang Trach (Quang Binh) - Pho Noi (Hung Yen) project is a special national project, which has brought into play the total strength of the entire political system with a huge volume, constructed in a short time, creating a spiritual mark of circuit 3 and a miracle of the electricity industry. The project has an important meaning in improving the capacity of connecting the transmission grid between the North - Central - South, contributing to ensuring electricity supply for the North and ensuring national energy security.
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In recent years, our country's socio-economic development has been strong, requiring an average growth rate of 10-12% per year in electricity sources. At some points, due to the impact of extreme weather, lack of proactive and flexible management, and limited capacity of the transmission system, there has been a local power shortage in the North in early 2023, directly affecting production, business and people's lives, affecting foreign investment attraction and environment.
Learning from this experience, since June 2023, the Government and the Prime Minister have issued many drastic instructions, requiring ministries, branches, agencies and enterprises to urgently deploy many synchronous solutions to ensure sufficient electricity supply for the North during the peak months of 2024 and the following years, and to avoid power shortages under any circumstances.
One of the important solutions is to soon deploy the construction of the 500kV Line Project, Circuit 3, from Quang Trach (Quang Binh) to Pho Noi (Hung Yen). The large-scale project has a total length of 519 km with 2 circuits, a total investment of more than 22,300 billion VND, passing through 9 provinces, 43 districts, 211 communes; with 1,177 poles to be constructed, 513 anchorages; need to use 705 thousand m3concrete; 209 thousand tons of steel; about 1.83 million m3 must be recovered2Land, relocation, support, resettlement, and production stabilization for 5,415 households.
Realizing the importance of the 500kV Line 3 Project, right from the first day of construction and throughout the project implementation, the Government has directed strongly and closely, removed all difficulties, and mobilized large resources for the project. Ministries, branches, localities, units and the entire political system have all participated strongly and received support from the people and businesses for the project.
In more than 6 months, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired 5 meetings and directly inspected and urged units at the construction site 3 times. Under the strong direction of the Prime Minister, the Government Office, the State Capital Management Committee at Enterprises, the Ministries of Industry and Trade, Planning and Investment, Natural Resources and Environment, Agriculture and Rural Development, Construction... and related localities have taken drastic actions to quickly implement procedures, contributing to promoting the progress of project completion.
In Nghe An, the 500kV line 3 from Quang Trach to Pho Noi passing through Nghe An province is nearly 100 km long, with 202 column foundation locations, passing through 6 districts and towns: Nam Dan, Yen Thanh, Nghi Loc, Dien Chau, Quynh Luu and Hoang Mai town. In the province, there are 53 households affected by land acquisition for project implementation (Nam Dan district: 19 households, Nghi Loc district: 9 households, Yen Thanh district: 2 households, Dien Chau district: 19 households, Hoang Mai town: 4 households), of which 18 households requested resettlement land allocation (Nam Dan district: 1 household, Nghi Loc district: 5 households, Dien Chau district: 12 households).
Determining the implementation of the project is an extremely important political task, which has been given top priority in recent times.
During the project implementation, a huge amount of work related to land use planning, conversion of forest land use purposes, compensation plans for site clearance and cadastral survey records were gradually resolved.
Mr. Tran Thanh Hai - Deputy Director of the Department of Industry and Trade said that from the beginning, the province established a Steering Committee for compensation, support and resettlement, headed by Mr. Le Hong Vinh, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee. After its establishment, the Committee issued more than 100 documents to direct the effective implementation of compensation for land acquisition, land clearance, conversion of forest use purposes, and support for power line construction.
In the site clearance work, under the direct direction of the Provincial Party Secretary and the active participation of the Provincial People's Committee Chairman and local authorities at all levels, Nghe An province has mobilized the participation of the entire political system with determination and strong direction to focus on completing the project to ensure progress as required by the Prime Minister.
Nghe An province is always proactive, especially in approving compensation plans, site clearance, forest use conversion and other related contents according to the motto: Contents that meet the conditions will be approved and implemented first, those that do not meet the conditions will be implemented later, and the site will be handed over to the investor as work progresses.
Along with that, promote propaganda work, mobilize people to agree and support project implementation; strengthen security and order in the areas where the project is implemented. Close and smooth coordination between agencies, units, departments, especially investors and contractors to carry out tasks.
By early March 2024, right after the Lunar New Year, Nghe An province had completed the mobilization and handover of 202 column foundation positions and 73/203 column spaces of 2 component projects of the 500kV line circuit 3; implemented land recovery for 53 affected households, including resettlement arrangements at the request of 18 households located on the construction route in Nam Dan, Nghi Loc, Dien Chau, Yen Thanh, Quynh Luu districts and Hoang Mai town.
Along with that, the leaders of Nghe An province, directly the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee are regularly present to inspect, urge progress, promptly encourage the spirit of engineers, workers, laborers, and forces at the site; at the same time, direct support for investors and contractors to organize project construction locally in the spirit of "4 on-site" (construction machinery, general laborers, construction materials in the foundation stage and logistics).
The Provincial Party Secretary chaired a meeting with leaders of 3 districts: Nam Dan, Nghi Loc, Yen Thanh; along with a number of leaders of the Departments: Industry and Trade, Finance, Agriculture and Rural Development, Natural Resources and Environment, leaders of the National Power Transmission Corporation to listen to the general progress and difficulties, and make recommendations on deploying the 500kV line 3 circuit passing through the above 3 districts. In the face of arising problems and situations, the provincial leaders were present at the scene to focus on handling; upon receiving information reflecting on the problems, the province inspected and directed the handling immediately without waiting for a written report.
MiracleD500kV Line 3 Project
With such a large construction volume, the construction time must last at least 3 to 4 years to complete, while the urgent goal set by the Government to complete the project within 6 months encountered many difficulties, challenges, weather obstacles, and many stages seemed impossible to complete.
Thoroughly implementing the Prime Minister's guiding principle, "the wire does not wait for the column, the column does not wait for the foundation, the foundation cannot be done by just one person", only "work on the table, do not retreat", the iron will and determination of the head of the Government has spread to all sectors, all levels and forces participating in the construction.
With all efforts and consensus in the spirit of "the foundation does not wait for the column, the column does not wait for the wire" and "strength comes from the people", "turning nothing into something, turning difficult into easy, turning impossible into possible", the 500kV Line 3 Project through Nghe An has been deployed urgently; the work has been carried out synchronously and smoothly.
Under the harsh hot weather, the investor, contractors, construction units, and directly the engineers and workers on the construction site always focused on construction with the spirit of "overcoming the sun and rain", "eating quickly, sleeping quickly", working continuously 24/7, "3 shifts, 4 shifts", "not enough work during the day, take advantage of working at night", "working through Tet, through holidays, through holidays", "only discuss work, no back-talk" as directed by the Prime Minister.
This demonstrates the drastic participation of the political system, the determination of the Government, and the direction of the Prime Minister, which has become a slogan for action at all construction sites and locations of the power line, as well as turned into actual actions of the participating construction units.
Eating, resting, and working right at the foot of the construction site all show an urgent working spirit; solidarity, overcoming all difficulties, and working together to carry out the emulation movement with the theme "5 best": Fastest progress, Best quality, Safest - Most economical, Most creative, Best care for life launched by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and Vietnam Electricity Group.
Engineer Dao Dinh Duong - Construction Team Leader of Song Da 11 Joint Stock Company said: "With 8 construction foundation positions on high, rugged mountainous terrain in Khanh Son commune, Nam Dan district, it is a challenge for the team of engineers and workers of Song Da 11 Joint Stock Company. How to bring machinery and equipment to the construction site safely; promptly stabilize food and accommodation so that workers can work long-term is of great concern to the unit. The project is located on high hills, so construction is very difficult. Therefore, we have to arrange for workers to eat on-site; provide food and drinks on-site, ensure health and meet the requirements of 3 shifts, 4 continuous shifts".
Engineer Phan Tuan Hiep - Commander of Package No. 42 in Duc Thanh Commune (Yen Thanh) shared: "Taking charge of the package, the unit has implemented the construction simultaneously in accordance with the Prime Minister's direction to mobilize local capital and work overtime. In particular, the unit's construction process has been very favorable thanks to the active support from the locality and households regarding the construction site."
The difficulties in the project implementation process were pointed out by Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan - General Director of EVN such as, during the construction period, the weather in May, June, and July was erratic with rain and sunshine in Nghe An and heavy rain, accompanied by thunderstorms and strong winds greatly affecting the construction progress.
The project also requires a very urgent construction schedule and a huge amount of materials and equipment that need to be supplied in a short time. In addition, due to the nature of pole erection and wire pulling, which requires skilled workers to work at height, the Group has mobilized all human resources to participate, at the same time, requiring contractors to calculate and arrange human resources reasonably along the entire route.
Faced with difficulties and challenges, in order to complete the 500kV line 3 on schedule, the Prime Minister has requested localities, agencies and units to take part with specific assigned tasks to promptly resolve obstacles. "The driving force comes from innovations, methods and approaches. Instead of just one agency or unit doing it, we mobilize many agencies and units with the motto "ideology must be clear", determination must be high, efforts must be great, actions must be drastic, work must be focused and key points" - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized.
A highlight is that since the construction of the 500kV line 3 project, from the highest leaders of the Group to EVNNPT leaders, they have traveled to each location every day, both promptly encouraging the workers and urging progress on the entire line. Therefore, workers are always enthusiastic in working in the very harsh weather conditions of the Northern region, especially when the temperature in many places reaches over 40 degrees Celsius. Overcoming bad weather, project management boards urge contractors to speed up construction in good weather conditions, ensuring food and accommodation for workers near the foundation location with suitable working hours.
After a lightning-fast 6-month construction journey, overcoming countless difficulties and challenges; with the will and determination of the people... the national key project - 500kV line 3 through Nghe An has reached the finish line in the historic autumn days of the country.
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