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Government urged to complete Ho Chi Minh Road project by 2025

About 86.1 percent of the Ho Chi Minh Road project has been completed, and the Government is working on the remaining sections so as to finish the entire project by 2025, Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The said on May 24.
Government urged to complete Ho Chi Minh Road project by 2025 ảnh 1A section of Ho Chi Minh Road in Binh Phuoc province (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – About 86.1percent of the Ho Chi Minh Road project has been completed, and the Governmentis working on the remaining sections so as to finish the entire project by2025, Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The said on May 24.

Reporting on the projectimplementation to the National Assembly (NA), he said under a resolution of the NA, this project, stretching 2,744km in total from Pac Bo in northern CaoBang province to Dat Mui in the southernmost province of Ca Mau, should havehad at least two lanes and been completed by 2020.

So far, 2,362km of the road,equivalent to 86.1 percent, along with about 258km of access roads, has beencompleted. About 211km is current under construction while capital hasn’t been allocatedfor building the remaining 171km.

The said as the project holds great significance in terms of politics, economy, defence -security, and poverty reduction, it has received great attention from the Partyand State.

It was carried out basicallyon schedule during 2000 - 2011. However, only few sub-projects were implementedbetween 2011 and 2015 due to impacts of the global economic crisis. Besides,since the size of the economy remained modest and resources limited, there wasn’tenough funding for the project to be completed by the end of 2020 as targetedby the parliament, according to the minister.

Government urged to complete Ho Chi Minh Road project by 2025 ảnh 2Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The addresses the NA's ongoing third session. (Photo: VNA)
He submitted the Government’sproposal for continued investment in the uncompleted sections during 2021 -2025, and about 634km of Ho Chi Minh Road to be upgraded into expressways afterthat depending on demand, effectiveness, and financial capacity.

Delivering a verificationreport, Chairman of the NA’s Committee for Science, Technology and EnvironmentLe Quang Huy pointed out that only 8 percent of the total workload was carried outduring 2017 - 2021, and the unfinished sub-projects were already two yearsbehind schedule.

The committee requests theGovernment arrange appropriate fundings and be determined to complete theremaining sub-projects during 2022 - 2025, he added./.
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