Nghe An is among the 16 localities with public investment disbursement above the national average.

On the morning of October 18, the Government held the 4th National Conference on Promoting Public Investment Capital by 2025. Comrade Pham Minh Chinh - Politburo Member, Prime Minister chaired.

The conference was held in person and online. At the Nghe An Provincial People's Committee bridge, comrade Le Hong Vinh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired. Also attending were leaders of relevant departments and branches.

Create competitive pressure and transparency in management

The total public investment capital plan for 2025 assigned by the Prime Minister is over 1.06 million billion VND. The Ministry of Finance's report shows that disbursement from the beginning of the year to October 16, 2025 reached nearly 455 trillion VND, reaching 50.7% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister.

In Nghe An alone, the total public investment capital plan for 2025 assigned from the beginning of the year and supplemented during the year is 10,897 billion VND. Thoroughly implementing the disbursement of public investment capital as the key political task of 2025, Nghe An province has closely followed the directions of the Government and the Prime Minister, drastically and synchronously implementing solutions to accelerate the disbursement of public investment capital.

Recently, the province held an online conference on public investment across the province with 130 communes and wards to thoroughly grasp the task of disbursing 100% of public investment capital, grasp the progress and remove difficulties and obstacles for units.

At the national conference, the leaders of the Ministry of Finance acknowledged Nghe An's efforts in directing and operating and promoting the responsibility of the leader. Specifically, Nghe An is one of the localities that holds regular meetings every 10 days to publicize the progress of each project, and at the same time requires investors to commit in writing to the disbursement rate.

Regarding implementation organization, progress monitoring and field management, the province is also one of the localities that has established a strict monitoring mechanism on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis, assigning specific tasks to each officer in charge of the project.

“Investors must create a progress critical path chart, report results weekly and take personal responsibility if progress is delayed; some localities such as Nghe An and Quang Ninh also publicly disclose the disbursement rate of each project on the electronic system to create competitive pressure and increase transparency in management,” said the leader of the Ministry of Finance.

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By the end of October 16, 2025, Nghe An's public investment disbursement rate reached 53.3%, ranking 13th out of 34 provinces and cities and belonging to the group of 9 ministries, central agencies and 16 localities with disbursement rates above the national average.

Ministry of Finance data

Avoid being “hot during the meeting but cold after the meeting”

Concluding the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh acknowledged the efforts of ministries, branches and localities with disbursement rates higher than the national average; at the same time, severely criticized 29 ministries, central agencies and 18 localities with low disbursement rates; requested to clarify the responsibilities of relevant collectives and individuals, seriously draw lessons and propose strong solutions to speed up progress from now until the end of the year.

The Prime Minister emphasized that the process of implementing public investment basically has no more problems in terms of mechanism, policy or institution. However, the main limitations come from the implementation stage. Although not all, there are still weaknesses in project preparation, lack of close supervision and inspection, and inappropriate arrangement of leadership and direction personnel.

Some officials still have an evasive mentality, fear of making mistakes, and fear of responsibility in performing public duties; while the coordination between relevant agencies and units is not really close, reducing the overall effectiveness of the implementation process.

On that basis, the Prime Minister emphasized that in order to achieve the target of disbursing 100% of public investment capital by 2025, a key political task, all levels and sectors must focus highly on leadership, direction, regular inspection, supervision and timely handling of arising problems. Each official needs to clearly understand that performing tasks is not only a responsibility according to assigned authority but also a manifestation of conscience and public service ethics.

With the above spirit, the Prime Minister requested Ministers, Heads of sectors, and Chairmen of Provincial People's Committees to uphold their sense of responsibility and promote the role of leaders in leadership, direction, and implementation.

The viewpoint is "the capital has been assigned, the project has been approved. The Party has directed, the Government has agreed, the National Assembly has agreed, the People support, the Fatherland expects, so there is only action, no retreat; the more pressure, the more effort must be made".

The Prime Minister requested to individualize responsibility to each individual, considering the results of public investment disbursement as one of the important bases for assessing the level of annual task completion of organizations and individuals and conducting this assessment according to Regulation No. 366-QD/TW dated August 30, 2025 of the Politburo on reviewing, evaluating and classifying the quality of collectives and individuals in the political system.

Regarding specific tasks, the head of the Government pointed out the need to review and evaluate the disbursement situation for each project; classify projects according to the disbursement level: Good, slow, unable to disburse; thereby promptly adjusting capital from unviable projects to viable projects, from slow to fast projects; build a specific disbursement schedule for each week, month, and quarter, associated with resolutely mobilizing the entire political system to carry out site clearance work for the projects.

After assigning specific tasks to ministries, branches and localities, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh once again reiterated the requirement to uphold the sense of responsibility, promote patriotism and the sense of serving the people to lead and direct the disbursement of public investment capital to achieve the highest efficiency. Each level, each branch, each cadre must really get involved, work with a proactive and decisive spirit, avoid the situation of "hot above, cold below", or "very hot during the meeting but cold after the meeting".

In addition, the head of the Government also directed careful preparation for the online inauguration and groundbreaking ceremony of major projects to welcome the 14th National Congress of the Party in the spirit of: "The State, the private sector, the people, and officials unanimously compete".