Prime Minister requests thorough implementation of '6 clarifications' in public investment

On the morning of May 20, the Government held a national online conference on promoting public investment growth momentum in 2025. The conference was chaired at the central bridge by Comrade Pham Minh Chinh - Politburo member, Prime Minister. Co-chaired by Deputy Prime Ministers. Attending the conference were comrades of the Politburo, Central Party Committee members, Deputy Prime Ministers, leaders of ministries, branches, central agencies, provinces, cities, economic groups, and state-owned corporations.

Comrade Bui Thanh An - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired at Nghe An bridge.

Clear authority and responsibility for easy inspection and management

Speaking at the opening of the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that the conference needs to analyze the driving forces to promote public investment, such as traditional driving forces, new driving forces affecting the economy as well as the progress of disbursement of public investment capital, etc.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested the conference to analyze the causes and draw lessons in leadership and direction, especially that leaders must be highly determined, make great efforts, change their thinking, decentralize, delegate power, clearly assign tasks, clear authority and clear responsibility for easy inspection and management. Thoroughly implement the "6 clear": Clear people, clear work, clear time, clear products, clear responsibility and clear authority, in order to achieve a disbursement rate of 100%.

At the conference, the Deputy Minister of Finance reported on the disbursement of public investment capital in the first four months of the year and tasks and solutions to promote disbursement of public investment capital in 2025.

Accordingly, by April 30, 2025, ministries, central and local agencies have allocated and assigned detailed 2025 capital investment plans for the list of tasks and projects, reaching 99% of the plan. Disbursement of the 2025 State budget capital investment plan estimated to be paid from the beginning of the year to April 30, 2025 is 128.5 trillion VND, reaching 15.56% of the plan, lower than the same period in 2024 (16.64%).

Thus, in absolute value, in 2025, disbursement was about 18 trillion VND higher than the same period in 2024, but the disbursement rate compared to the capital assigned by the Prime Minister was lower. Central budget disbursement reached 13.33% of the plan, lower than the same period in 2024 (16.79%); local budget disbursement reached 17.20% of the plan, higher than the same period in 2024 (16.56%).

Disbursement of capital for 3 national target programs (NTP) reached 21.43%.

In the first 4 months of 2025, there were 10 ministries, central agencies and 35 localities with estimated disbursement rates above the national average such as: Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of Public Security, Women's Union, Nghe An, Ha Giang, Tuyen Quang, Lang Son, Nam Dinh, Thai Binh provinces... However, there are still a number of ministries, central agencies and localities that have not disbursed or disbursed very low.

Proposing solutions to complete the 100% disbursement target

Speaking at the conference, comrade Bui Thanh An - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee reported on the progress of public investment disbursement in Nghe An.

As of May 10, Nghe An's disbursement progress reached 25.49% of the total plan and 28.12% of the assigned plan (26.36% higher than the same period). In particular, some disbursement sources achieved quite well such as: National Target Program on New Rural Construction (reaching 59.65%), local budget (reaching 27.08%),...

Through review, Nghe An province still has some difficulties and problems affecting the progress of projects. The province is determined to strive to complete 100% of the plan according to the direction of the Prime Minister, contributing to achieving the province's growth target of 10.5% in 2025.

Deputy Prime Ministers and representatives of State-owned enterprises also made many suggestions and recommendations to speed up the disbursement of public investment capital.

Opinions at the conference, in addition to reporting on capital disbursement progress, ministries, branches and localities focused on stating the causes and recommendations to promote the growth momentum of public investment disbursement. Among them, there are many causes of problems related to site clearance, lack of raw materials, unit prices, norms; planning; problems arising from administrative boundary mergers and organizational apparatus...

Concluding the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh acknowledged, commended and highly appreciated the bright spots of public investment in terms of strong leadership, direction and management and high disbursement results of 10 ministries, branches and 38 localities. Since the beginning of the year, the Prime Minister has issued 1 Directive and 3 Official Dispatches to urge public investment disbursement; held 4 meetings of the National Steering Committee on key projects. Public investment contents were included in the working programs and meetings of the Government, ministries and branches.

In 2025, there will be about 830 trillion VND for investment, not to mention increased revenue and savings. In the coming time, the Central Government will continue to focus on perfecting the public investment system, amending and supplementing laws; promoting the role of working groups, regularly inspecting and urging with the spirit of "6 clear".

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also expressed his gratitude to the people for giving up their land, places to eat, places to live, places of worship, fields and gardens for national projects, contributing to the construction of local infrastructure and disbursement of public investment capital.

To date, 21 localities have not yet allocated all capital sources. The Prime Minister requested that all funds be allocated by May 2025. 37 agencies and 27 localities with disbursement below the national average also need to make efforts to remove obstacles to achieve the 100% disbursement target by 2025.