In the context of the world and the domestic situation with many new opportunities and challenges, Can Tho city chooses the theme of the year 2021: ‘Strengthening the building of a clean and strong political system; promote mobilization of investment resources to build synchronous socio-economic infrastructure ‘. With this theme, the city aims to bring into play all potential factors and advantages of rapid and sustainable economic development; ensuring economic growth on the basis of improving productivity, efficiency and competitiveness of the economy. At the same time, continue to invest quickly, strongly, synchronously and sustainably in infrastructure, especially transport infrastructure, logistics …
In recent years, the socio-economic infrastructure of Can Tho city has received attention for investment but has not kept pace with the development. In the photo: An urban corner of Can Tho.
Efforts
Mr. Tran Viet Truong, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of Can Tho City People’s Committee, affirmed: The year 2021 is of particular importance, the first year of implementing the Politburo’s Resolution No. 59-NQ / TW. on construction and development of Can Tho city to 2030, with a vision to 2045; Resolution of the congress of the Party Congress of Can Tho City term 2020-2025; Five-year socio-economic development plan 2021-2025. Therefore, the City People’s Committee issued the Plan No. 17 / KH-UBND to implement the resolutions of the National Assembly, the Government, the City Party Committee and the City People’s Council on the main tasks and solutions to implement the economic development plan. – Social and state budget estimates for 2021 and Plan No. 16 / KH-UBND implementing the theme year 2021 “Strengthening the building of a clean and strong political system; promote mobilization of investment resources to build synchronous socio-economic infrastructure ”. Thereby, the city departments, branches, related agencies and the district People’s Committee are assigned to focus on 9 groups of key tasks, with 89 specific contents, clearly defining the leading agency and coordinating agency. implementation and closely monitor implementation progress.
Sticking to the theme of 2021, in the first quarter of 2021, Can Tho boosts the mobilization of resources for investment in building socio-economic infrastructure. The disbursement results of public investment capital plans as of the end of March 2021 were VND 592.8 / 7,240,514 billion, reaching 8.2% of the allocation plan, of which, the local budget disbursed. budget more than 396 billion, reaching 6.8% of the plan; disbursement at city level reached 6.3% of the plan; disbursement at district level reached 7.7% of the plan. Regarding domestic investment attraction (outside industrial zones), up to now, the city has 111 projects being implemented, with a total area of about 2,916 hectares, with a total investment capital under the policy of 117,639 billion dong. For attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), the city currently has 85 foreign direct investment projects, with a total registered investment capital of about 2 billion USD, estimated realized capital is 513.66 million USD, about 25% of total registered capital …
In a number of industries and sectors such as transport infrastructure, logistics systems, the city has shown a fierce investment in a fast, strong, synchronous and sustainable way. Mr. Le Tien Dung, Director of the Department of Transport of Can Tho City, said: “In the period of 2021-2025, the estimated capital allocated to the transportation sector is 9,470 billion VND, of which the transitional capital is 770 billion VND, new starting capital is 8,700 billion VND. From this capital source, the city aims to ensure smooth traffic connection between the centers of districts in the area, making the most of the advantages from the highways and highways system by the Ministry of Transport. investment in the period of 2021-2025 and the following years. From there, create inter-regional traffic connections and connect the city traffic network to the national traffic system. The city also prioritizes handling bottlenecks in traffic infrastructure (the inconsistency in load and width of bridges and roads in the direction of planning); traffic development orientation to expand space for development and embellishment of the city… ”.
Coordinate difficult removal
Although showing drasticism from the beginning of the year, but according to the assessment of the City People’s Committee, the disbursement progress of public investment capital in 2021 is still low; The attraction of investment from non-state enterprises is slow and there is no new change. Mr. Le Thanh Tam, Director of the Department of Planning and Investment of Can Tho City, emphasized: The year 2021 is the first year of implementing the medium-term public investment plan for the period of 2021-2025. For agencies and units assigned to act as investors of projects under the capital plan at this stage, it is necessary to urgently implement relevant procedures to ensure the conditions to be incorporated into the investment capital plan. medium-term work to submit to the City People’s Council for approval at the mid-year meeting in 2021. For units assigned capital plans to implement in 2021 and capital plans from 2021, it is necessary to develop a specific progress plan to implementation and investment disbursement. At the same time, there is a plan to check in detail the implementation and disbursement progress of each project, especially ODA-funded projects and key projects of the city.
Over the past years, the implementation of land acquisition projects in recent years has been slow and ineffective due to a number of difficulties and problems such as: the coordination of propaganda among levels and sectors for mobilizing people to comply with the policy of land acquisition, understanding the regulations on compensation, support and resettlement are not specific and timely, leading to a number of cases where households disagree with the implementation planning policy. project. The current districts and districts still lack foundation funds to arrange resettlement for projects funded by the state budget compared with the need to receive land from households. In addition, for projects using non-budget capital, investors are slow to prepare construction-related procedures, affecting the land acquisition progress …
From that fact, Mr. Do Thanh Thao, Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Can Tho City, suggested that communes, wards and towns closely coordinate with the city and investors in compensation and liberation. ground; strengthen propaganda, advocacy, publicity and transparency of guidelines, policies, and compensation regimes for the known people in order to create a consensus in the project implementation process. At the same time, it is proposed that the City People’s Committee regularly inspect the implementation of the land acquisition plan, promptly grasp the situation, proactively resolve difficulties and problems in compensation and site clearance. . In addition, the City People’s Committee should assign the Department of Planning and Investment to preside and coordinate with relevant departments and agencies to regularly work with investors, advise timely adjustment of public investment plans, cut capital. projects cannot be disbursed to focus capital on projects with implementation volume and disbursement capacity; Priority is given to allocating sufficient capital sources for compensation, site clearance and construction of qualified resettlement areas according to regulations …
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