Prime Minister: If the economy grows by double digits, electricity growth must be 1.5 times higher.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that if the economy grows by double digits, electricity growth must be 1.5 times higher. This is a difficult target, but no matter how difficult it is, it must be achieved, with breakthrough solutions, century-old projects and absolutely no power shortages.
On the morning of December 8, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired an online conference to review the investment and construction work of the 500kV Line 3 projects from Quang Trach (Quang Binh) to Pho Noi (Hung Yen).
At Nghe An province, comrades: Lieutenant General Ha Tho Binh - Commander of Military Region 4; Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired.
Attending the conference were members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee: Le Hong Vinh - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Phan Dai Nghia - Commander of the Provincial Military Command. Also attending were leaders of relevant departments, agencies, branches and localities.
Many valuable lessons from the 500kV Line 3 project
The 500 kV line 3 circuit project from Quang Trach (Quang Binh) to Pho Noi (Hung Yen) has a total length of 519 km, 1,177 pole positions, 513 anchorages, passing through 211 communes and wards of 43 districts in 9 provinces with a total investment of more than 22,300 billion VND.
The 500kV line 3 is a national key and urgent project of great importance to improve the stability of the power system operation, increase power supply to the North in 2024 and the following years, and contribute to ensuring national energy security.
Under the strong direction of the Government and the Prime Minister, the attention and support of ministries, branches, localities and people, investors and contractors have determined and made efforts to complete the energization of the 500kV Line 3 Circuit Project after more than 6 months of construction.
Vietnam Electricity Group said that the time to prepare and submit for approval of investment policy/adjustment of investment policy was only nearly 5 months. This is a record short time compared to projects of similar scale and the time has been shortened by 1.5-2 years.
The project spans 9 provinces with large areas of compensation and site clearance, with a total recovered land area of about 183 hectares, affecting 5,248 households and 96 organizations, and requiring 167 households to be relocated.
The project started on January 18, 2024, and by March 8, 100% of the foundation site had been completed and handed over; and by June 17, the 513 corridor had been handed over. The record-breaking speed of site clearance is one of the important factors contributing to the success of the projects.
To complete the project on schedule, the investor, project management boards, and contractors focused all resources, made efforts to overcome all difficulties, organized production, and construction according to the Prime Minister's direction with the motto "3 shifts, 4 shifts", "overcome the sun, overcome the rain", "not lose to storms", "through holidays/Tet/days off".
From the success of the 500kV Line 3 projects, Vietnam Electricity Group has drawn many valuable lessons. In particular, the leadership, direction, and implementation were resolute, timely, and synchronous, especially from the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Ministers.
Besides, there is the participation of authorities at all levels and consensus of local people; the efforts, joint efforts and unity of all forces participating in the construction; the important role of communication work and the role of the Trade Union in emulation and mobilization work.
At the conference, investors, localities and construction units reported and evaluated the implementation results, focusing on evaluating and clarifying methods, approaches and lessons learned after the process of organizing site clearance and project construction.
For Nghe An, determining this is a project of extremely important and urgent significance, large scale, large volume of work, compensation and site clearance work must be carried out one step ahead, is the top priority task, the province has proactively established a Steering Committee; mobilized the entire political system to participate; sought the consensus, support and coordination of all the people.
During the project implementation, the comrades: Provincial Party Secretary, Provincial People's Committee Chairman, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee organized and participated in 14 working delegations to inspect the project implementation; organized and participated in 19 working sessions to grasp and promptly remove difficulties and obstacles.
After 52 days of starting the project, by March 10, 2024, Nghe An province completed handing over 202 column foundation positions to the construction unit and by June 18, 2024, completed handing over 203 column spaces.
Absolutely no power shortage
Concluding the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, on behalf of the Government, respectfully thanked the people, cadres and workers of the electricity sector; Party committees, authorities, political systems, socio-political organizations of the 9 provinces where the project passes through; and press agencies from central to local levels for their sacrifices, efforts, and determination to ensure that the 500kV line 3 project is completed on schedule.
Emphasizing further lessons learned, the Prime Minister said that it is necessary to promote the strength of national solidarity and mobilize the strength of the entire political system.
Along with that is the leadership of the Party, the implementation organization of all levels of government, the participation of the people; promoting important resources, motivations, and strengths; promptly removing institutional obstacles; on schedule, ensuring quality, not increasing prices...
For the 9 provinces where the project passes through, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested that Party committees and authorities at all levels continue to take care of the lives of people who have relocated their houses and graves for the project; and at the same time, promptly reward collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in the past time.
In the coming time, emphasizing the country's important goals in 2025, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that it is necessary to continue promoting economic growth, striving to exceed double digits.
"If the economy grows by double digits, electricity growth must be 1.5 times higher. This is a difficult goal, but no matter how difficult it is, we must do it. We are determined to achieve it with breakthrough solutions, century-old projects, and absolutely not let there be a power shortage," Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed.
In addition, the electricity sector needs to promote self-reliance, self-strengthening, courage, flexibility, creativity and innovation to implement and ensure the set goals. Promote the strength of the entire political system to ensure effective and reasonable power sources, transmission and distribution.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested the electricity sector to mobilize the strength of the people and coordinate with other enterprises. Timely remove institutional obstacles and develop policies to mobilize resources in the spirit of: "The Party has directed, the Government has agreed, the National Assembly agrees, the people support, the Fatherland expects", "only discuss and do, not discuss backtracking".
On the other hand, the electricity industry must increase the application of science and technology, artificial intelligence to develop at the right level and in the right direction; must build a database, which is the output for the smart electricity industry in the new era. At the same time, fight against negativity, corruption, waste, and make good policies for officials and workers in the industry.
