Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presided over the meeting with leaders of the Ministry of Transport. Grasp the principle of “3 no” The Prime Minister stated that when removing difficulties and problems for localities, it is necessary to grasp the principle of “3 no”: Do not say no, do not say it is difficult and do not say yes but no. The functions, tasks and jobs of the industry are very heavy and difficult. Therefore, in order to fulfill their tasks well, officials and leaders need to thoroughly grasp the spirit of “think ripe, must be careful; thought must be informed; determination must be high; the effort must be great; the action must be drastic and effective; do focus, key; Whatever you do, you will finish it ”. The Prime Minister also asked the Ministry of Transport to attach importance to Party building, improving leadership capacity and fighting strength of each party organization, party members, building a clean, strong and comprehensive Party Committee of the Ministry of Transport. Increase decentralization and decentralization go hand in hand with control, supervision and power control. As the agency managing the facilities with large capital, the Ministry of Transport must take the lead in the prevention of corruption, negative, wastefulness, bureaucracy, from ministry leaders to cadres, civil servants and public employees. set, more powerful and efficient. In order to do so, it is necessary to firmly grasp 5 basic principles in the organization and operation of the Party, 5 modes of leadership of the Party and apply creatively in the specific conditions of the Ministry, especially to strictly observe the principle of concentration. democracy, operating within the framework of the Constitution and the law. Emphasizing the promotion of good lessons learned, the Prime Minister said that it is necessary to summarize the practice, replicate good models and effective methods in the transport industry as well as the whole country. “Sticking to reality to adjust, respect reality, derive from reality, take reality as a measure”. Focus resources for implementing key and key projects The Prime Minister asked the Party Committee and Ministry leaders to pay more attention to cadres work, streamline organizational structure, effective and efficient operation and personalize personal responsibilities, benefit the interests of the nation, the nation and the people come first. Along with that is building a clean and strong staff. Staff work must be public, transparent, democratic, objective, fair, and fair. The Prime Minister proposed the Ministry of Transport to promote the application of the form of examination for the leadership and management positions. In terms of State management, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated clearly that there must be a strategy and an action plan that concretizes the Resolution of the XIII Party Congress and attaches great importance to the planning work. The national sector plans for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050 that the ministry is building, must be closely connected to form an overall national transport network. From the planning, it is necessary to identify key and key projects to focus resources for implementation. Prime Minister emphasized that, with good planning, good projects, there will be good investors. Along with that, the Ministry of Transport should boldly decentralize, decentralize, assign the locality to be the competent State agency for the project in its area and once again, the Prime Minister reiterates the personalization of responsibility. individuals and strengthen inspection and supervision to promote the initiative and creativity of each agency, unit and locality. It is necessary to do better and more effectively the work of institutional building, focus on solving problems, considering this as one of the key tasks of the Ministry. Prioritize any field, there must be mechanisms and policies for that field to attract investors. If we say priority without policy mechanism, it will not be possible. Regarding the issue of mobilizing resources, the Prime Minister emphasized that the State’s resources are limited, but the Ministry still faces many difficulties, so it is necessary to promote self-reliance, resilience, innovation and creativity. Promote public-private cooperation and a number of other forms of investment, referring to effective models from advanced countries, especially from localities in the country that have done effectively. “The more difficult, more complex and sensitive the job is, the more it is necessary to maintain principles, promote democracy, mobilize collective intelligence, be humble, listen to and decide by majority. What is ripe, clear, proven to be right in practice, is implemented effectively, most of them agree, so do it. If something has not been regulated or in reality beyond the regulations, it should be bravely piloted, done, learned from experience, gradually expanded, not perfectionist and not in a hurry ”, emphasized the Prime Minister. Receiving comments from the Prime Minister, Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The affirmed that the spirit of self-reliance, self-reliance, innovation and creativity will be promoted; promote public-private cooperation. The Ministry will organize seminars to discuss solutions for each issue, each field, and successfully complete the assigned tasks. According to the report of the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry has developed 5 branch plans for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050, including road network planning; rail; master plan for seaport system development; airport and airport planning; Inland waterway infrastructure planning; is expected to be submitted to the Prime Minister according to the plan in the second quarter of 2021. In 2021, will focus all resources to accelerate the construction of important traffic projects: North-South expressway project in the East (11 projects with 654 km), Ben Luc expressway- Long Thanh, My Thuan-Can Tho Expressway, Long Thanh International Airport. Complete the investment in upgrading runways, taxiways of Tan Son Nhat, Noi Bai international airports … At the same time, the Ministry will continue to handle problems and shortcomings at toll stations for using roads. Quickly, synchronously and effectively deploy the non-stop electronic road toll collection system. Perform tasks and solutions synchronously to ensure traffic safety.

According to the Department of Planning and Investment (Ministry of Transport), by April 2021, the Ministry of Transport has disbursed 6,821 billion VND out of a total of 42,996 billion VND, reaching 16% of the year plan. The disbursement result for the first 4 months, although higher than the same period in 2020, shows the performance of transport enterprises, but the disbursement value is mostly contract advance, the actual construction volume is not much. . The material mixing plant at My Thuan 2 bridge project is waiting for construction materials. In addition to Thang Long Project Management Board (PMU Thang Long), PMU My Thuan has the highest disbursement result of the Ministry of Transport, having disbursed VND 4,099 / 9,710 billion (concentrated in Phan Thiet- expressway project). Dau Giay ensures progress), reaching 42.2% of the delivery plan and 945 / 3,072 billion, reaching 30.8% of the delivery plan (focusing on the projects connecting National Highway (NH) 91, Long bypass Xuyen, My Thuan-Can Tho expressway, renovation of Tan Son Nhat airport runway to ensure progress), other PMUs have disbursement results lower than the average of the transport sector or delayed. For example, the PMU of Dak Lak Transport and Rural Development Works was assigned 250 billion VND, the disbursement plan registered by the end of April 2021 was 178.6 billion VND, but until now, it has only reached 15.4 billion VND. contract, reaching 6.2% of the plan or projects such as: My Thuan 2 Bridge, Upgrading NH53, Upgrading NH24, Upgrading NH25, Improvement of Highway 27, Section to bypass Lien Khuong … are all behind schedule. The road leading to My Thuan 2 bridge is waiting for the volume of soil, rock and sand to load the load. It is noteworthy that the North-South Expressway component project Mai Son-QL45 section still has many problems in the ground, the locality has not handed over to the construction contractor, seriously affecting the progress. The project is still entangled with about 2 km of un-handed ground. Other high-speed projects such as 2 new component projects converted to public investment (QL45-Nghi Son and Nghi Son-Dien Chau) are holding bidding to select construction contractors to start construction at the latest in June. / 2021; Three component projects implemented in PPP form (Dien Chau-Bai Vot, Nha Trang-Cam Lam, Cam Lam-Vinh Hao are still in contract negotiation stage, expected to start in the second quarter of 2021. “Ultimatum” Facing this fact, at the meeting of counting progress of urgent projects recently by the Ministry of Transport, Minister Nguyen Van The affirmed, did not accept the status of the project behind schedule and there will be strong solutions to rectify businesses. Especially, a number of projects invested by the locality are “sluggish”, if there are no soon solutions to speed up construction progress, disbursement of capital, the Ministry will not assign any more projects. next time. Highway 53 is stuck with construction materials. “PMU who is slow should pay early, must transfer immediately, not let the situation of holding capital and disbursing slowly. The project is behind schedule, poor disbursement is directly related to the leadership capacity of the PMUs and must immediately handle the responsibilities of the PMU leaders “, Minister Nguyen Van The emphasized. Particularly for North-South expressway projects, “Industry Commander” requires the Ministry’s management agencies to urgently work with investors, PMU review and adjust the capital of projects. , ensuring to follow the disbursement plan of the industry. Especially, the PMU of Ho Chi Minh Road and the Department of Transport of Ninh Binh urgently direct and attach responsibility to the contractors for the two slow-moving high-speed projects, namely Cam Lo-La Son and Cao Bo-Mai Son. The North-South Expressway of Cam Lo-La Son section is facing land clearance. For 3 projects commenced simultaneously from September 30, 2020: Mai Son-QL45, Vinh Hao-Phan Thiet, Phan Thiet-Dau Giay are having problems with construction materials, Minister Nguyen Van The directs. direct the PMU to directly coordinate with local authorities to come to the material mines to remove solutions for price, capacity of exploitation, service road … to ensure the completion of construction progress. “The demand for construction materials for the North-South expressway is about 60.7 million m3 of soil, 21.5 million m3 of rock and 10.8 million m3 of sand. meeting the supply volume according to the project schedule Many mines have expired, are waiting for renewal of licenses, while some private mines are not ready to sign contracts to wait for prices to go up. … These issues need to be solved soon ”, said Mr. Le Quyet Tien, Deputy Director of Traffic Construction Management and Quality (Ministry of Transport).