Prime Minister requests to promote disbursement of public investment capital, determined to achieve 100% of the 2025 plan

Since the beginning of 2025, the Government and the Prime Minister have issued many documents strongly directing ministries, central agencies and localities in allocating and disbursing public investment capital in 2025. The disbursement results by the end of August 2025 are estimated to reach 46.3% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister, higher than the same period in 2024 (40.4%); of which 9 ministries, central agencies and 22 localities have disbursement rates above the national average; 29 ministries, central agencies and 12 localities have disbursement rates below the national average.

Disbursement of public investment is both urgent and strategic and is a key task to promote growth, stabilize the macro-economy, ensure major economic balances, create jobs, income and livelihoods for the people. To achieve the target of disbursing 100% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister in 2025, the Prime Minister requested Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies, other central agencies, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities and requested the Secretaries of Provincial and Municipal Party Committees to continue to uphold their responsibilities, focus highly on leadership, direction, and implementation of tasks and drastic, timely, synchronous, and effective solutions to remove difficulties and obstacles, promote disbursement of public investment capital in 2025, focusing on the following tasks and solutions: Thoroughly grasp and seriously and fully implement the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's laws, Resolutions, Official Dispatches, and directives of the Government and the Prime Minister on the allocation and disbursement of public investment capital; Identifying public investment disbursement as the top political task, it is necessary to prioritize leadership, direction and implementation.

Promote disbursement associated with ensuring project quality

The Prime Minister requested ministries, central agencies and localities to focus on implementing flexible, creative, timely and effective measures and solutions to drastically promote the allocation and disbursement of public investment capital, especially for key and important national projects, highways, inter-regional projects with spillover effects... Promote disbursement while ensuring the quality of projects and works, avoiding negativity, loss and waste.

Ministries, central agencies and localities shall make detailed disbursement plans for each project and control progress on a weekly and monthly basis. Focus on accelerating site clearance and construction progress, promptly removing difficulties and obstacles related to land and resources, etc. Assign specific leaders responsible for monitoring progress, promptly removing difficulties and obstacles according to their authority or proposing to competent authorities for resolution. Proactively transfer capital from slow-disbursing projects to projects with good disbursement and in need of additional capital according to regulations. Propose adjustments to the 2025 public investment capital plan of the Ministry, agency or locality (if any), and send it to the Ministry of Finance before September 20, 2025.

At the same time, strengthen discipline and order in disbursing public investment capital, strictly handle according to regulations collectives and individuals who intentionally slow down the progress of allocating and disbursing public investment capital; immediately replace weak officials, civil servants and public employees with limited capacity and responsibility; resolutely handle negative and corrupt behaviors in the management and use of public investment capital.

The Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, the City Party Committee and the Chairman of the People's Committee of the provinces and centrally-run cities directed the Party Committee Secretaries and Chairmen of the People's Committees of communes, wards and special zones to clearly identify and further promote the role and responsibility in implementing the site clearance work for projects, resolutely not to let the implementation of the two-level local government affect the progress of site clearance and disbursement of public investment capital for projects in the area, strictly handle according to regulations for officials who do not properly perform or are irresponsible in performing their assigned duties and responsibilities; take full responsibility before the Government and the Prime Minister for this matter.

Ministries, central agencies and localities shall synthesize and report on the disbursement of public investment capital of their ministries, agencies and localities to the Ministry of Finance before the 20th of each month for synthesis and reporting to the Government and the Prime Minister according to regulations; in which it is necessary to clearly report on the results achieved, difficulties, obstacles, causes and propose drastic and effective solutions to promote the disbursement of public investment capital in 2025 of their ministries, agencies and localities.

The State Treasury ensures payment sources for projects.

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Finance to preside over and coordinate with ministries, agencies and localities to synthesize the situation and results of public investment disbursement of ministries, agencies and localities, report to the Government and the Prime Minister at regular Government meetings and report to the Prime Minister's Working Groups according to Decision No. 1544/QD-TTg dated July 16, 2025; in which, propose drastic, breakthrough and effective solutions to ensure 100% disbursement of the public investment capital plan in 2025.

In addition, the Ministry of Finance synthesizes proposals to adjust the 2025 public investment capital plan among ministries, agencies, and localities, and proposes to report to competent authorities as prescribed in September 2025.

Closely monitor the progress of public investment disbursement of ministries, agencies and localities, promptly report to the Prime Minister to direct solutions close to the practical situation to complete the disbursement target in 2025.

The Ministry of Finance directs the State Treasury to promptly pay for completed volumes, promote payment via the State Treasury's online public services; directs functional units to ensure payment sources for projects; promptly handle problems related to payment, settlement, negotiation, signing of agreements, and withdrawal of capital from sponsors.

Removing difficulties and obstacles in disbursing public investment capital

The Prime Minister also requested the Ministries in charge of national target programs (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions) to review difficulties, obstacles and recommendations of ministries, branches and localities in the process of disbursing capital for the 3 national target programs, coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and other ministries and agencies to promptly handle them according to their assigned functions and tasks; and report to competent authorities on matters beyond their authority.

The Ministries of Finance, Agriculture and Environment, Construction, Justice and relevant Ministries and agencies, according to their assigned functions and tasks, shall proactively and closely coordinate with Ministries, agencies and localities to remove difficulties and obstacles in disbursing public investment capital; continue to review institutions and laws related to public investment to amend, supplement and improve, contributing to accelerating the disbursement of public investment capital.

The Prime Minister's Working Groups under Decision No. 1544/QD-TTg dated July 16, 2025 continue to strengthen the inspection and urging of ministries, agencies and localities in the allocation and disbursement of public investment capital; promptly remove difficulties and obstacles within their authority or report and propose to competent authorities for handling according to regulations.

The Government Office, according to its assigned functions and tasks, shall monitor and urge the implementation of this Official Dispatch; report to competent authorities on issues beyond its authority./.