What did Minister Nguyen Van The present about the Ho Chi Minh road project?

The total investment of component projects to connect Ho Chi Minh route (phase 2 lanes) is 99,170 billion VND. Component projects have been invested with a total investment of 88,400 billion VND.

Based on demand, the capital allocated to invest in component projects is more than 79,000 billion VND. In which, in the period to 2020, more than 62,300 billion VND has been allocated.

In the period of 2021 – 2025, more than 16,700 billion VND of state budget has been allocated to the Ministry of Transport and 1,600 billion VND of the central budget to support localities in implementing the Doan Hung – Phu Tho section.

Minister Nguyen Van The said that in the period from 2000 to 2011, the project basically met the required progress. Due to the impact of the global economic crisis, the Government issued Resolution No. 11/2011, so many projects had to be delayed, including component projects on Ho Chi Minh Road.

“In the period from 2011 to the end of 2015, although the investment project has been approved, there are very few traffic projects in general and the component projects of Ho Chi Minh road in particular that have been invested.” Minister Nguyen Van The presented,

The report of Minister Nguyen Van The stated that, in the context of the economy’s size is not large enough, the resource capacity is limited, so by the end of 2020, it is not balanced to allocate enough capital to connect the entire route as the target. of Resolution No. 66/2013 of the National Assembly.

The Ministry of Transport has studied and converted the investment form of the Chon Thanh – Duc Hoa section from using government bonds that have been partially invested and postponed since 2011 to investment in the form of PPP.

Also according to the report of Minister Nguyen Van The, due to changes in the law, the implementation of the Chon Thanh – Duc Hoa section in the form of PPP has problems. In the medium-term public investment plan for the period of 2021 – 2025, VND 2,785 billion is expected to be allocated for investment with a scale of 2 lanes.

The Co Tiet – Cho Ben section (87.5km), the Government has directed the Ministry of Transport to study investment in the form of BOT, the research results show that due to the low transport demand and the national highways 32 and 21A going in parallel. Therefore, the financial plan is not feasible.

In addition, the national highways 21A and 32 are being exploited with a scale of grade III, 2 lanes to meet the transport demand in the current period, the Government recommends taking advantage of these highway sections to connect Ho Chi Minh road. in order to ensure savings and efficiency in difficult resource conditions and will study and invest in highway scale in the period 2026 – 2030.

Minister Nguyen Van The said that the Government proposed investment target on Ho Chi Minh road in the period to 2025 will continue to invest in completing the sections that are being implemented; balancing and allocating resources to invest in 2 component projects of Cho Chu – Trung Son intersection and Rach Soi – Ben Nhat, Go Quao – Vinh Thuan sections; for the section Co Tiet – Cho Ben, only prepare to invest, take advantage of National Highway 32, National Highway 21 to connect Ho Chi Minh road with the scale of 2 lanes.

Concentrate resources to complete about 287 km of the North-South expressway project to the East, which coincides with the Ho Chi Minh road.

In the period after 2025, on the basis of demand, investment efficiency, planning and ability to balance resources of each period, invest about 634 km of Ho Chi Minh road according to expressway standards.

Complete many highway projects

Regarding the implementation plan and investment capital needs, Minister Nguyen Van The said that in the period of 2021 – 2025, the project will be implemented and completed, and 2 new component projects will be started. lanes with a total investment of 22,276 billion VND. In which, more than 16,700 billion VND has been arranged.

To ensure adequate and timely balance of investment capital for two priority component projects, Cho Chu – Trung Son junction and Rach Soi – Ben Nhat, Go Quao – Vinh Thuan sections, the Government has directed the Ministry of Transport reviewing and rebalancing the Ministry’s medium-term public investment plan for the 2021 – 2025 period to allocate enough VND 4,450/5570 billion for these two projects.

In the period of 2025 – 2030, in the implementation plan and the investment capital needs of projects in this period will be balanced in the total demand for investment plan for development of transport infrastructure in general and report competent authorities to decide”, Minister Nguyen Van The informed.

Regarding solutions to achieve the above goals, Minister Nguyen Van The said that for ongoing projects, the Government directs the Ministry of Transport and relevant localities to focus on human resources and equipment to soon complete the project. put into operation. Develop an implementation plan that closely follows the approved plan and resources to ensure it is suitable for each specific period and is feasible.

Prioritize the concentration of state resources to invest in the planned route, this is a route that goes through difficult areas, remote areas where many ethnic minorities live, related to national defense – security, the mobilization of The efficiency of other capital sources is low, so the Government determines the main source of public investment capital.

Continue to publicize the planning to create consensus, high consensus among all classes of people; closely and synchronously coordinate in the process of planning implementation between the central and local governments, ensuring that local plannings must comply with the planning’s orientations.

At the same time, strengthen the periodic and irregular inspection and supervision of the project implementation process to promptly have a plan to deal with difficulties and problems in order to ensure the progress and objectives of the project.

The Government proposes to the National Assembly to consider and approve the report summarizing and evaluating the overall implementation of Resolution No. 66/2013 of the National Assembly until 2020-2021 and the implementation plan of the Ho Chi Minh road project in the next phase. next paragraph.

Assign the Government to completely complete the investment and construction of sections of Cho Chu – Trung Son junction and Rach Soi – Ben Nhat, Go Quao – Vinh Thuan to connect Ho Chi Minh route according to the scale of 2 lanes within 2 lanes. period 2021 – 2025. In addition, implementing specific projects in the period after 2020 according to the planning, suitable for transportation needs, ability to balance resources and investment efficiency, including the Co Tiet – Ben Market.