Dak Lak (VNA) – A 500-day emulation campaign for completing 3,000km of expressways was launched at a ceremony held in the presence of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on August 18.
The event, organised by the Central Emulation and Commendation Council, was connected via videoconference with 14 provinces and centrally-run cities with expressways under construction.
PM Chinh, who is also Chairman of the council, said the resolution of the 13th National Party Congress identifies comprehensive infrastructure development as one of the three strategic breakthroughs. With building transport infrastructure considered an important pillar, the country aims to put 3,000km and 5,000km of expressways into use by 2025 and 2030, respectively.
To carry out the resolution, since the tenure’s beginning, the Government has strongly ordered all-level authorities, sectors, and localities to take concerted measures to boost investment in transport infrastructure projects, thereby obtaining significant results.
So far, about 1,000km of expressways traversing 15 provinces and cities has been completed, raising the total length of such roads to nearly 2,100km. Ongoing projects are constructing more than 1,700km while work on another 1,400km is about to start soon. Those projects cover 48 provincial-level localities nationwide, he noted.
On behalf of the Government and the Central Emulation and Commendation Council, he kicked off a 500-day emulation campaign for completing 3,000km of expressways to reach the target set in the resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and welcome the 14th congress.
The Government leader asked Party committees at all levels to issue drastic directions, the entire political system to play its part, and administrations to work harder while calling for support from people and businesses nationwide for the task.
After the launch, ministries, sectors, localities, project management boards, contractors, agencies, and units must immediately build implementation plans, set appropriate emulation criteria, and invest efforts in performing difficult and focal duties. They need to be aware that completing expressways is a top political task to be implemented between now and the time of the 14th National Party Congress so as to meet socio-economic development targets as well as people’s aspiration for a system of comprehensive and modern expressways, he added.
PM Chinh voiced his belief that with the strength accumulated over 40 years of Doi moi (Renewal), the entire political system’s consensus and joint efforts, people’s support, as well as new opportunities and advantages, under the Party’s clear-sighted leadership, 3,000km of expressways will be completed and put into use by 2025, helping promote socio-economic development and improve the quality of people’s material and spiritual life.
On behalf of relevant sides, representatives of the Ministry of Transport, Dak Lak province, and Son Hai Group pledged to build action plans and coordinate closely and effectively with one another to speed up projects so that 3,000km of expressways will have been opened by December 31, 2025./.
