Building a synchronous and modern infrastructure system is one of three strategic breakthroughs set out in the document of the XIII Congress of the Party. Photo: Quang Thai Restructuring and adding new content From the experience in organizing the implementation of Resolution of the XII Congress, the Party is more deeply aware of the importance and practical meaning of grasping and implementing key tasks. Therefore, the political report of the XIII Congress of the Party separates the content “The key tasks, strategic breakthroughs in the XIII Congress term” into a separate section – section XV. Compared with the Political Report of Congress XI, XII, the key tasks presented in the Political Report of the XIII Congress were restructured and added new content. These are 6 key tasks: (1) Building and reorganizing the Party, building the political system, building a contingent of cadres; (2) Strongly promote economic development; (3) Strengthening foreign affairs, international integration, national defense and security …; (4) Promote the cultural values ​​and human strength of Vietnam; strengthening social development management, realizing social progress and equity; (5) Promote socialist democracy, strong national unity; (6) Natural resource management, environmental protection, climate change adaptation. New points in the arrangement and presentation of the above tasks are integrating the focus on Party building, the political system, economic development, strengthening national defense, security, foreign affairs, and development of culture, society and people; separation to emphasize the focus on promoting socialist democracy and the strength of great national unity; supplement the focus on natural resources and environment protection and climate change adaptation. For the first key task “Building and regulating the Party, building a political system, building a contingent of cadres”, the XIII Congress political report added some urgent contents such as: Doi Moi the Party’s leadership and ruling modes; step up the fight to prevent and combat negativity, “group interests”, consolidate the people’s confidence and attachment to the Party, the State and the socialist regime. In the second mission of strongly promoting economic development, the XIII Congress Political Report added, emphasizing the new contents in accordance with the requirements arising in the new context. Notably, it focused on controlling the Covid-19 pandemic, mass vaccination of Covid-19 vaccine for the community; complete synchronous development institutions in accordance with the complete, modern and integrated market economy; overcoming bottlenecks hindering the development of the country … Of the remaining core missions, the sixth is a new one. On the basis of the deep awareness of the increasingly serious challenges of natural resources, environment and climate change to national development, the XIII Congress’s political report has identified: “Strict management, use rational and efficient use of land and natural resources; environmental protection and improvement; proactively and actively deploy adaptation solutions to climate change ”. Supplement and develop strategic breakthroughs In addition, the XIII Congress document specially focuses on identifying strategic breakthroughs in accordance with the requirements and requirements of the next 5 or 10 years. Political report identifies 3 strategic breakthroughs in the XIII Congress term; The 10-year socio-economic development strategy for 2021-2030 also outlines 3 strategic breakthroughs in 10 years. There are differences between the Political Report and the 10-year socio-economic development strategy 2021-2030, although there are differences in determining the specific content of each strategic breakthrough due to the different time coverage (5 years and 10 years), but unanimously stated: 3 strategic breakthroughs identified by the XI and XII Congress of the Party (institutions for market economic development; high-quality human resources; infrastructure system modern, synchronous) is meaningful, long-term value, still intact and will be concretized in accordance with the conditions and requirements of each stage of development. Three strategic breakthroughs identified in the XIII Congress document have remarkable additions and developments. In particular, for a strategic breakthrough on synchronous improvement of development institutions, the Expanded Political Report requires synchronous improvement of development institutions, in which the market economy institution has a socialist orientation. is the focus. From a 10-year overview, the 10-year socio-economic development strategy for 2021-2030 expands and emphasizes the complete content of the complete, modern and integrated socialist-oriented market economy institution. ; renovate national governance towards modernization associated with building a streamlined, effective and efficient socialist rule of law State apparatus. As for strategic breakthroughs in human resource development, especially high-quality human resources, the Political Report identifies two basic contents: (1) Prioritizing human resource development for leadership, management and key domains in national construction and defense; (2) Human resource development must be closely linked and based on enhancement, creating a fundamental change in the quality of education and training; associating with the mechanism of recruiting, using and treating talents … These contents are presented in more detail and details in the 10-year socio-economic development strategy for 2021-2030. Strategic breakthrough in building a synchronous and modern infrastructure system, Political Report emphasizes two priorities: (1) Development of a number of national key projects in transport, adapting to climate change; (2) Develop information and telecommunications infrastructure, create a national digital transformation platform, step by step develop digital economy and digital society. The 10-year socio-economic development strategy for 2021-2030 adds priority to the development of large urban infrastructure and energy infrastructure and emphasizes the requirement to build and synchronously develop national data infrastructure. (The article uses the material of “New points in documents of the XIII Congress of the Party” compiled by the Central Theoretical Council).

A corner of the urban area west of Hanoi. Photo: DUY LINH The 17th Hanoi City Party Committee has just issued the Program No. 03-CTr / TU on “Urban embellishment, urban development and urban economy in Hanoi in the period of 2021 – 2025”. The program identifies the goals of rapid and sustainable development of the Capital towards a green city, a smart and modern city; ensure the harmonious link between urban and rural areas. Notably, the program sets out the task of developing the urban economy, developing Hanoi into a major trade and economic center of the region and Asia. Build modern and synchronous infrastructure Program No. 03-CTr / TU on “Urban embellishment, urban development and urban economy of Hanoi in the period of 2021 – 2025” is built on the basis of inheritance and promotion of achieved results. Program No. 06-CTr / TU on “Synchronous development, gradual modernization of urban infrastructure, strengthening management of construction order, land, environment, building a civilized city, modernization period 2016 – 2020 ”. Noting the results achieved in the period 2016 – 2020, but the city also admits some limitations such as the low urbanization rate, the uneven urban development and the potential; the uniformity of the urban infrastructure system is not high; The renovation and reconstruction of the old apartment building still has many problems … This is the basis for the Hanoi City Party Committee to offer solutions and tasks to make breakthroughs in urban construction and development. the period of 2021 – 2025. The program aims to quickly and sustainably develop the Capital towards a green, smart and modern city; ensure the harmonious link between urban and rural areas; to raise the quality and efficiency of urban embellishment, development and modernization in association with the sustainable development of the urban economy; to build typical works, architectural and landscape architectural spaces with the characteristics of the Capital. Ensuring the sustainability of the urbanization process, solving challenging problems posed in the urban development process. To accomplish the above-mentioned goals, the program sets out key tasks, in which priority is given to reviewing and implementing synchronous plans; to enhance urban embellishment and modernization towards modernization and improve living quality; to synchronously and modernize and expand the scale of the system of urban infrastructures, increase the proportion of land funds for urban traffic, quickly develop road and urban railway transport infrastructure; green, smart, modern and sustainable urban development; investment in expanding urban areas and satellite urban areas; urban management strengthened; urban economic development; strive to build Hanoi by 2025 into a major trade and economic center of the country and the Southeast Asia region. The program has outlined six key solutions. First of all, building and perfecting the system of mechanisms and policies; bring into full play potentials and resources, attach special importance to investment for in-depth development, promote investment socialization; to speed up the implementation of urban infrastructure construction projects and works, urban embellishment and development; to step up administrative procedure reform and consolidate the apparatus; improve the quality of the contingent of cadres and civil servants to meet their tasks; enhance the application of science – technology in embellishment, urban development and urban economy … Expeditiously deploy the tasks The successful implementation of the Program No. 03-CTr / TU of Hanoi City Party Committee will determine the appearance of the city and the quality of life of the people in the coming time. Departments: Construction, Transport, Industry and Trade play a key role in implementation. Currently, the Department of Construction is assigned by the Hanoi City Party Committee as the Program Standing Committee. Director of the Hanoi Department of Construction Vo Nguyen Phong said that the Department is urgently coordinating departments, branches and units to advise and build plans of the City People’s Committee to soon implement the program from the beginning of the second quarter to 2021. Regarding specific jobs, the Department of Construction will focus on completing the housing development plan in the area in the period 2021 – 2025, with a vision to 2030, with emphasis on social housing; focus on renovating and embellishing urban areas, developing technical infrastructure, improving the quality of life of people; completing the construction of a specific framework and mechanism project to accelerate the renovation and reconstruction of the old apartment building; embellishment of valuable architectural works; Deploying underground electrical and telecommunications cables on 300 streets in the old town area … For transport development – one of the most important issues of the program, the tasks are very heavy, especially raising the proportion of traffic land in urban areas to about 12 to 15%; to complete the system of ring roads and radial axes; solve the problem of urban traffic congestion. According to Director of the Department of Transport of Hanoi Vu Van Vien, recently, the Department has proposed a list of important traffic works that need priority in the period of 2021 – 2025. In which, there are six urban railway projects. Marketing; five ring roads; nine big bridges crossing the Red and Duong rivers; five highway improvement projects connecting the capital with neighboring provinces. If implemented on schedule, the traffic situation in Hanoi will see many positive changes in the coming time. Ba Dinh, Hoan Kiem, Hai Ba Trung and Dong Da districts focus on the task of implementing six urban planning projects; towards the relaxation of the population, building more public works, renovating the old apartment building, focusing on building architectural planning management regulations; organizing the urban design of new open roads and some important roads … For district blocks, especially districts preparing to go to the district, they will promote the planning and construction of infrastructure to shape a modern city in the future.

According to Mr. Vu Anh Minh, Chairman of Vietnam Railway Corporation (VNR), when transferring to the State Capital Management Committee at enterprises, the industry is still tasked with operating and exploiting the entire structural system. railway infrastructure. But the railway infrastructure is under the management of the Ministry of Transport, which leads to a situation of “head going, feet remaining”. Use maintenance money According to previous regulations, at the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Transport carried out the assignment of the budget capital estimates to the VNR. After that, the unit will place an order for public services with 20 affiliated companies to perform the railway maintenance. On December 31st, the company organized to take over and check assets to continue the maintenance cycle of next year. From 2019, VNR transferred to the State Capital Management Committee at Enterprises, no longer under the Ministry of Transport, so this ministry did not continue to assign capital to non-industry units. Therefore, in 2020, VNR once called for help because it was not assigned capital. Then, based on the resolution of the Government, the Ministry of Transport temporarily assigns capital to VNR to carry out the maintenance. However, by 2021, the plan to assign VND 2,800 billion to any maintenance unit has not been removed. The reason is that the project on management, use and exploitation of national railway infrastructure assets made by the Ministry of Transport has not been approved after many submission to the Prime Minister because of differences in opinion. Specifically, the Ministry of Justice believes that the fact that the Ministry of Transport assigns the maintenance cost estimates to the VNR for implementation is not contrary to the current law. At the same time, there is no need to go through unnecessary intermediaries, slow down the progress of the mission, directly affect the safety of the train. “If assigned to the Railway Bureau, there will be many problems such as inconsistent with the Law on Railways …” – The Ministry of Justice stated. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance believes that the assignment of budget estimates for railway management and maintenance to VNR is not in accordance with the provisions of the State Budget Law in Clause 1, Article 49. On this basis, the Ministry of Transport proposed the Government to hand over money for railway maintenance to the Railway Administration, and then return it to the VNR according to the comments of the Ministry of Finance. However, VNR does not agree with this plan. The profit that VNR has will be paid to the budget and annually the budget will allocate about 2,800 billion VND for railway system maintenance. Photo: V.LONG According to which law is reasonable? According to Mr. Vu Anh Minh, currently all railways in countries around the world, the ownership, management, maintenance, and operation of national railway infrastructure assets invested by the State are allotted to businesses. state industry implementation. State-owned enterprises directly manage, maintain, trade in properties and operate. State management agencies do not directly manage, exploit and trade assets, but only properly perform state management functions such as policy making, planning, inspection, and inspection of the implementation of management. property management, exploitation and trading … Currently, VNR is managing 3,143 km of railways passing through 34 provinces and cities. In order to maintain this entire infrastructure, the VNR must organize an asset management system from the parent company level to the member units and the majority shareholding companies. Currently, the industry has 11,315 employees. In which, 1,241 labors of bridge week, road patrol, tunnel week; 915 workers indirectly perform the task of planning and cost estimating the maintenance of the works …; 6,278 maintenance work and quality management of maintenance work; 2,881 employees on duty guarding the crossroads to ensure train operation safety. Therefore, the proposal of the Ministry of Transport will break the consistency between the management and maintenance activities of railway infrastructure with the safety of train operation and railway transport business, delaying the operation. to mobilize railway transport, to eliminate railway transport. “Because then VNR will have to operate railway transportation in the condition that the national infrastructure system is divided, lack of synchronous coordination due to too many entities to manage and operate. This will break the principle of “unification, concentration” – the most basic and key principle in railway transport activities of the railway ever since … “- Mr. Minh said. Meanwhile, Mr. Le Hoang Minh, Director of the Department of Transport Infrastructure (Ministry of Transport), said that the Ministry of Transport’s implementation of the budget for the maintenance of the national railway system to the Railway Administration is is implementing in accordance with the current provisions of the State Budget Law 2020. “The Ministry of Transport must base on the current regulations, can not arbitrarily do any problems without grounds” – Mr. Le Hoang Minh emphasized. The fact that the units leading the Railway Law 2017 stipulate a number of powers for the VNR, including the authority to manage and maintain the national railway infrastructure, Mr. Minh affirmed the budget and financial issues. The main law is to comply with the State Budget Law (general law), while the 2017 Railway Law is a specialized law. However, according to an expert, it is necessary to apply the law in a flexible way, to completely solve this problem, how to create the most favorable conditions for railway maintenance, to avoid people thinking that there is Money is scrambled. “With the package of railway infrastructure maintenance, I think that it is reasonable to assign it to the VNR, if it is assigned to the Railway Bureau through many unnecessary intermediaries, there may be a mechanism for asking – giving …” or. • Invite 20 units but can not sign the contract yet According to the report of the Vietnam Railway Administration, after being assigned with the plan and estimate by the Ministry of Transport, in January 2021, the department drafted a contract to order railway infrastructure maintenance. The Department has invited 20 maintenance units to negotiate and sign orders for orders, but so far the units do not sign contracts. The reason is that VNR, which currently accounts for more than 50% of equity in these companies, does not agree to the member units to sign contracts with the Railway Administration. This is the reason why the contract negotiation has been delayed. “Therefore, the information that the Ministry of Transport and the Vietnam Railway Administration do not assign budget estimates to the VNR and its member units is not the correct nature” – Mr. Le Hoang Minh informed.

The Ministry of Transport confirmed that the allocation of budget estimates for the maintenance of the national railway system to the Vietnam Railway Administration is in compliance with the provisions of the State Budget Law 2020. Photo: VNA

Regarding the document No. 803 / BC-ĐS of the Vietnam Railway Corporation (VNR), make an urgent petition to the Prime Minister about problems in the management and maintenance of national railway infrastructure; In which, VNR emphasized that the difficulty of funding maintenance of railway infrastructure makes it difficult for the railway industry to stand by the end of April 2021, talking to the Vietnam News Agency on the morning of April 16, Mr. Le Hoang Minh, Director of the Department of Transport Infrastructure affirmed that the Ministry of Transport assigning the budget estimate for the maintenance of the national railway system to the Vietnam Railway Administration is in compliance with regulations. the current Law on State Budget 2020.

Specifically, Mr. Le Hoang Minh said that the Ministry of Transport cannot arbitrarily do any problems if it does not base on the current law provisions. The Ministry of Transport does not have to voluntarily assign it to the Vietnam Railway Administration because in the past (before 2018) when the Vietnam Railways Corporation was under the Ministry of Transport, according to the Law on State Budget, It is normal for the Ministry of Transport to assign the maintenance capital of VNR.

“However, when the State Budget Law 2020 came into existence to replace the old State Budget Law, and at the same time VNR moved to be under the State Capital Management Committee in Enterprises, the Ministry of Transport was only assigned capital to affiliated units. On the other hand, state budget capital is only allocated to specialized management units that the railway sector is assigned to the Vietnam Railway Administration ”, said Mr. Le Hoang Minh.

The Director of the Department of Transport Infrastructure affirmed that the Ministry of Transport is implementing the basis of Clause 5, Article 9; Clause 8 of Article 44 and Clause 1 of Article 49 of the 2020 Law on State Budget to allocate capital to the Vietnam Railway Administration. The Vietnam Railway Administration will then sign a contract to order the maintenance of the national railway infrastructure system with the maintenance units of VNR.

Mr. Le Minh Hoang added that in 2020, the above problem was also encountered when the Ministry of Transport could not hand over maintenance capital to VNR, so the Ministry of Transport and Vietnam Railway Corporation must have a written document. a report to the Government, then to the National Assembly resolutions on this issue; including the content of the Ministry of Transport assigning budget estimates to VNR as 2019 and earlier. In implementing the resolution of the National Assembly, the Government also issued Resolution No. 41 / NQ-CP dated April 9, 2020; including the implementation of the Resolution of the National Assembly. After this resolution, the Ministry of Transport has just assigned the 2020 budget estimate for national railway infrastructure maintenance to the VNR.

“Thus, the key is that if it wants to assign a budget that is different from the current State Budget Law, the agency that promulgates the law must issue a resolution on that matter and the Government must issue a resolution. decided to guide the implementation of the contents of the National Assembly’s resolutions ”, Mr. Le Hoang Minh emphasized.

Regarding the content of maintenance companies that are facing difficulties because they do not have maintenance funds, they have to borrow money from banks to pay workers’ salaries, Mr. Le Hoang Minh once again affirmed that the Ministry of Transport attended The budget estimate for the maintenance of the national railway structure system for the Vietnam Railway Administration is in accordance with the Law on State Budget and if the allocation of this budget estimate to the Vietnam Railway Corporation is inconsistent with the regulations. of the State Budget Law.

Returning to the story of the difficulties that 20 maintenance units of Vietnam Railway Corporation are facing, Mr. Le Hoang Minh said that before December 31, 2020, the Ministry of Transport issued a plan. general maintenance for the whole industry; including the railway industry. At the same time, at this time, the Ministry of Transport has also assigned a budget estimate to the Vietnam Railway Administration.

To implement this estimate, the Vietnam Railway Administration has invited 20 railway maintenance units to negotiate and sign an order contract, but so far these units do not sign a contract with the Vietnam Railway Administration. Male. The important reason that these 20 units cannot sign order contracts with the Vietnam Railway Administration is because the Vietnam Railways Corporation currently accounts for more than 50% of the equity in these companies. a member unit signing a contract with the Vietnam Railway Administration. This is the reason why the contract negotiation has been delayed up to this point.

“Thus, the information that the Ministry of Transport and the Vietnam Railway Administration do not assign the budget estimates to the VNR and its member units is not the correct nature. Currently budget estimates and maintenance plans have been built, funding for the maintenance of national railway infrastructure in 2021 is also under the management of the Ministry of Transport, which means money is ready to transport any. When is the time?

Sharing more, Mr. Le Minh Hoang said that the VNR gave the reason that the 2017 Railway Law stipulates a number of powers for the Vietnam Railway Corporation; including the authority to manage the maintenance of national railway infrastructure. However, it must be confirmed that before November 2018, when the VNR was still under the Ministry of Transport. However, when the VNR is no longer under the Ministry but transferred to the State Capital Management Committee in enterprises, and at the same time the State Budget Law in 2020 comes into being, then the new law must be complied with. Although the 2017 Railway Law is still in effect, the budget and financial matters must comply with the State Budget Law (general law) and the Railway Law 2017 is a specialized law.

Before December 31, 2020, the Ministry of Transport issued a general maintenance plan for the whole industry; including the railway industry. Photo: VNA

Previously, Vietnam Railway Corporation issued document No. 803 / BC-ĐS on April 12, 2021, making an urgent petition to the Prime Minister regarding problems in the management and maintenance of infrastructure. national railway.

According to the above document, VNR said that 3,143 km of railway nationwide are currently assigned to the Vietnam Railway Corporation to directly organize the operation, the collected funds are deducted from the state budget 20%, 80 The remaining% is the Corporation’s revenue which is used to spend on operations for the exploitation organization (labor costs, asset maintenance and maintenance …). The maintenance of railway infrastructure assets must always be associated with train operation because the plan for maintenance and maintenance of railway infrastructure assets depends on the train run chart (both running train and exam. railway infrastructure maintenance).

Document No. 803 / BC-ĐS of VNR also said that the project on management and use of national railway infrastructure assets, submitted by the Ministry of Transport to the Prime Minister up to now, still created a lot. intermediate management level, many administrative procedures in the management, maintenance and exploitation of assets. Especially, to increase licensing and approving subprojects (sub-permits) when proposing a mechanism for assigning maintenance cost estimates to the Vietnam Railway Administration. Because VNR said that the Vietnam Railway Administration is currently only performing the function of advising the Ministry of Transport, not managing the railway infrastructure, if the capital is allocated to this unit before allocating it to the VNR, it will slow down. Late maintenance, congestion.

Representative of the Vietnam Railway Corporation said that according to the annual estimate, the budget capital for railway maintenance is VND 2,800 billion, but so far it has not been assigned. Currently, 20 railway maintenance companies under the Vietnam National Railways Corporation, which are responsible for the maintenance of railway infrastructure systems, owe wages to workers for many months, and have not yet had funds to buy maintenance materials. maintenance …

This is not the first time that Vietnam Railway Corporation has called for help because of the slow allocation of maintenance capital. Before that, in early 2020, the railway industry also had to face the same situation when by the end of February 2020, the Ministry of Transport had not yet been assigned funding for railway maintenance. Then, to resolve this situation, the Ministry of Transport had to temporarily hand over the capital to the Railway Corporation after the Resolution of the National Assembly and the Government to place public service orders with 20 companies. under VNR to promptly ensure the safety of train operation such as maintenance, maintenance, patrol, guarding, signal information system … However, by 2021, the plan to allocate capital to any unit has not been remove.

According to the Vietnam Railway Corporation, the industry currently has 11,315 employees. In which, there are 1,241 workers in bridge week, road patrol, tunnel week; 915 workers indirectly perform the task of planning and cost estimating the maintenance of the works …; 6,278 maintenance work and quality management of maintenance work; 2,881 workers on duty guarding the crossroads to ensure the safety of the train./.

Quang Ha town, Hai Ha district, increasingly spacious and modern.

Quang Ha town is the political, economic, cultural – social center of Hai Ha district, located on the traffic route connecting Ha Long with Mong Cai, which is identified as one of two “breakthrough points. breaking an important “socio-economic development” of Quang Ninh province with the orientation of becoming an economic, commercial, industrial, tourism, service and seaport center of the Northern midland and mountainous region, of the coastal economic belt in the Gulf of Tonkin and the focal point of the Vietnam-China economic corridor, playing a role in promoting the economy of the whole district.

More than 10 years ago, Quang Ha town was only a small scale with 5 streets, walking around for a dozen minutes, the end of the town. But so far, Quang Ha has completely changed with the formation of a series of urban areas and residential areas. Especially, in early 2020, Hai Ha will merge Quang Dien, Quang Trung, Phu Hai communes into the town with the total natural area of ​​the town after the merger is 26,02km2, with a population of 14,815 people. This meets the need for urban expansion in the district.

The urban traffic routes of Quang Ha town have been expanded.

Not up to this point, but over the years, the district has focused on investment and urban upgrading. Up to now, the urban infrastructure of Quang Ha town has basically been completed. Most of the townspeople have houses with an average floor area of ​​32.2m2 / person. The traffic roads are invested, widened, spacious, clean and beautiful. All main streets in urban areas of the district have lighting equipment at night. The town has a square, green park, theater, cultural house … to meet the needs of entertainment, culture, arts, sports and sports of the people. The investment in medical and educational establishments is spacious and modern. The entire town is covered with mobile communication.

The people of Quang Ha town clean and clean the river bank that runs through the town.

Quang Ha town’s environment is focused by the people. Hazardous wastes are collected and treated in accordance with regulations; 95% of solid waste, domestic waste in urban areas is collected and treated. The water supply and drainage system is also invested quite fully, currently nearly 90% of the population in the urban area of ​​the district is supplied with clean water for daily life. In particular, the people of the town are always actively cleaning and cleaning the environment of the neighborhood, river embankment … Volunteer groups also donate to renovate the landscape of the river embankment around the town, plant trees. green … create a clean, beautiful environment.

The members of the group “Ha Co old definition” donated money and labor to plant the giant pine tree, to clean and embellish the area of ​​the embankment of the Ha Coi River running through the town. Photo: Le Thanh (Old group of Ha Coi)

Although merging 3 communes into the town, but shifting the economic structure of the town quite quickly towards increasing the proportion of commerce, service, industry and construction; reduce the proportion of agriculture. The rate of non-agricultural workers in inner-city areas reaches 89.5%. This has contributed to increase the town’s budget revenue in 2020 to above VND 863 billion, while the town’s budget expenditure is at a lower level. That helps to balance the town’s budget revenues and expenditures quite well.

The quality of life of the townspeople has been improved; Average income in 2020 of Quang Ha town will reach 2,822 USD / person. The urban appearance in Quang Ha has undergone significant changes. Currently, the poverty rate of the expanded Quang Ha town is only 0.97%.

Compared with the standards of grade-IV urban centers, Quang Ha town basically meets all the necessary conditions. Currently, the district continues to invest in town infrastructure to be recognized as a Grade IV urban center in the shortest time; at the same time, reaching the criteria of grade-III urban infrastructure by 2025.

Mr. Vu Anh Minh, Chairman of the Board of Members Railway Corporation Vietnam (VNR) has just issued an urgent petition to the Prime Minister “calling for help” on issues related to the development of a National Project on management, use and exploitation of railway infrastructure assets. The State invests and the allocation of resources for management and maintenance of real estate assets.

From 1955 to now, VNR is the only 100% state-owned enterprise established by the State with the purpose of assigning the management, exploitation, use and direct trading of all railway infrastructure assets. (KCHTĐS) in the form of excluding capital components in the enterprise.

VNR leaders said that with 3,143 km of railways going through 34 provinces and cities, in the absence of funding for the management of real estate assets, VNR has organized an asset management system from the General level. companies to member units and joint stock companies with dominant capital contribution.

Up to this point, due to the long and unusual effects of the Covid-19 epidemic as well as the construction of an investment package of VND7,000 billion belonging to medium-term capital, in single track conditions, both train and construction. , The railway industry is in a very difficult period.

Along with that, according to Mr. Vu Anh Minh, problems with funding for the maintenance of national real estate infrastructure in 2021 have not been resolved according to the direction of the Prime Minister, 20 companies perform the task of system maintenance. The national real estate infrastructure currently does not have the budget to buy materials to put into the project, regular expenses and especially to pay employees in the first 4 months of 2021, seriously affecting the lives of nearly 25,000 workers in the VNR. .

“The high risk is that 11,315 workers on the road patrol, bridge week, tunnel patrol, guarding the crossroads … will quit their jobs because they have no income. This issue has pushed businesses to the end, difficult to sustain. until the end of April 2021 “- President of VNR stated in the petition.

According to VNR, the project on management and use of national railway infrastructure assets submitted by the Ministry of Transport (MOT) to the Prime Minister up to this point continues to create many levels of management intermediaries, many administrative procedures. in the management, maintenance and exploitation of real estate assets, increasing licensing, and approving the subproject (sub-license). In particular, it is still proposed a mechanism to assign cost estimates for maintenance to the Vietnam Railway Administration (the agency only performs the advisory function under the Ministry of Transport and does not manage the assets of the real estate infrastructure).

“The proposal of the Ministry of Transport in the Project not only fails to overcome difficulties and problems in production and business activities, but also causes a lot of stagnation and congestion for VNR, pushing businesses to the risk of bankruptcy. , the risk of eliminating railway transport in the transportation system “- VNR leader said.

According to the VNR leader, in order to manage and maintain the assets of the national real estate infrastructure, VNR must organize a comprehensive and coherent human resources system from the parent company to the base units along the railway lines with a total of 11,315 employees were employed, including: 1,241 workers in bridge, road, and tunnel patrol; 915 indirect workers; 6,278 workers perform maintenance and quality control of maintenance work and 2,881 workers guarding the crossroads to ensure safe train operation.

Meanwhile, at present, the organizational apparatus of the Vietnam Railways Administration has only over 100 staff members (most of them are officers of the railway office and the railway traffic safety inspection force), so if the plan is implemented according to the Project, the Ministry As proposed by transportation, VNR still has to fully allocate the above 11,315 human resources to perform the tasks of asset management and the maintenance of national railway infrastructure assets.

“VNR will become an intermediary agency to delay, cause congestion in the process of maintenance and operation of transportation, directly affecting train safety” – VNR leader explained.

Based on the provisions of relevant laws, international experience and especially the practice of managing and operating operations, VNR believes that the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister have chaired meetings with Ministries many times. , departments to analyze the legal basis and have the conclusions and announcements. The Ministry of Justice also appraised the legality in Document No. 193 / BTP-PLDSKT dated January 22, 2021, which confirmed that the delivery of KCHTDS assets and cost estimate for maintenance to VNR Corporation is correct. current laws (including the State Budget Law).

From the above explanations, the Chairman of the Board of Members of VNR sincerely proposes to the Government, the Prime Minister to: Direct the Ministry of Transport to seriously, fully implement the direction of the Prime Minister in the document. 1956 / VPCP-CN dated March 24, 2021 on the management, use and exploitation of national real estate assets.

VNR also proposed to the Prime Minister to direct the Ministry of Transport to continue to assign estimates of economic causes for the management and maintenance of national real estate assets for the period from 2021 onwards to VNR as in previous years.

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 …

An Thoi port is currently promoting about 17% of its design capacity

Mining right auction

An Thoi Port is a seaport invested by the State with a total cost of 128 billion VND with a design capacity of 280,000 tons of cargo / year, 440,000 passengers / year. At the time the project was put into operation (2012), An Thoi is the main port (main port) and the only port in Phu Quoc that can receive ships of up to 3,000 DWT.

Previously, in January 2014, the Vietnam Maritime Administration gave a consortium of investors, Saigon Transport Services Joint Stock Company – Hiep Phuoc Maritime and Development Investment Joint Stock Company (TRANACO Joint Stock Company – HPI) leases the infrastructure of An Thoi port with the lease period from 2014 to 2043. These two investors have established An Thoi Port Investment and Operation Joint Stock Company to execute the contract with the Department. Vietnam Maritime. However, during the implementation of the Contract, due to a number of reasons from the lessee, the Vietnam Maritime Administration unilaterally terminated the above-mentioned Contract on January 1, 2021.

It should be added that the leasing of maritime infrastructure has been implemented quite effectively by the Ministry of Transport – Transport and the Vietnam Maritime Administration. Since 2004 until now, there have been 4 leases of marine infrastructure invested with state budget funds, with the total rental paid to the state budget up to 1,480 billion VND. .

“The contract no.03 for renting An Thoi port was unilaterally terminated ahead of time because the internal investor consortium had many disagreements, leading to the incorrect payment of rent to the State on time. The operation of An Thoi port in the form of leasing still brings efficiency to the State ”, Mr. Luu Quang Lam, Chairman of the Board of Directors of An Thoi Seaport Investment and Exploitation Joint Stock Company affirmed.

According to Mr. Nguyen Nhat, Deputy Minister of Transport – Transport, to continue to select the lessee to operate An Thoi port according to the provisions of Decree No. 43/2018 / ND-CP dated March 12, 2018 of the Government, The Ministry of Transport has instructed the Vietnam Maritime Administration (the unit assigned to manage assets) to develop the Scheme.

“Up to now, the Scheme’s dossier has been completed and valid according to regulations. The fact that the Ministry of Transport and Transport consulted the Ministry of Finance – the public property management agency – is to comply with the provisions of Decree No. 43/2018 / ND-CP dated March 12, 2018 of the management, use and exploitation of maritime infrastructure assets, ”said Mr. Nhat.

Potential risks

According to the proposal of the Vietnam Maritime Administration, the entire maritime infrastructure of An Thoi port will continue to be leased for about 42 years from the time of signing the lease contract (expected from 2021). by 2063 (according to the time of use of the property).

The starting price for the rental auction of An Thoi port infrastructure is about 195 billion VND, determined by two items: fixed collection price worth 160 billion VND (residual value of the property; service costs annual asset management and exploitation of the lessor; cost of project formulation, auction organization) and the change in price of VND 35 billion, based on the lessee’s revenue from exploiting profit.

Representative of the Vietnam Maritime Administration said that this starting price is close to the developments of An Thoi port in recent times. In fact, after 7 years of leasing, it shows that the output of goods through the port only reached an average of 17% of the design capacity.

The main reason is that goods transported to Phu Quoc Island are mainly construction materials for civil construction works, goods related to people. Because it is located in the southern part of the island, far from projects and works under construction, if the cargo is unloaded at An Thoi port, it will take a long road transport process, but the road is narrow, through the residential market small bridges, bridges, low payloads, not suitable for the transportation of heavy and bulky goods.

“That is not to mention, Phu Quoc currently has many temporary ports and inland waterway ports, scattered near the construction works around the island, with cheap rates, quite convenient for loading and unloading goods. The contractor will definitely have experience and a stable source of goods, ”said the leader of the Vietnam Maritime Administration.

An Thoi Port Investment and Operation Joint Stock Company, Phu Quoc Sun Company Limited and some local investors are very interested in participating in leasing the right to operate An Thoi port in the case of the Scheme. approved by competent authorities.