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PM urges removing bottlenecks to key transport projects

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked ministries, agencies and localities to make greater efforts to remove roadblocks to national and key transport projects while chairing a meeting on November 25.
PM urges removing bottlenecks to key transport projects ảnh 1Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham MinhChinh asked ministries, agencies and localities to make greater efforts toremove roadblocks to national and key transport projects while chairing ameeting on November 25.

Chinh, who is also head of the state steering committee for national and key transport projects, said at its eighth hybrid meeting that at least 3,000 kilometres of expressways should bebuilt by 2025, and the figure is expected to reach 5,000 by 2030.

Currently, the country counts 34 major transport projectsand 86 sub-projects considered important in the sector, which have beenlaunched in 48 cities and provinces.
PM urges removing bottlenecks to key transport projects ảnh 2Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA)
The leader pointed out that construction materials andsite clearance remain the biggest obstacles to the projects, and askedlocalities to pay more attention to these issues.

He urged the Ministry of Transport to instruct investorsto ask contractors to coordinate with localities in order to soon completeprocedures for the exploitation of mines serving the construction of the North-SouthExpressway’s eastern wing for the 2021-2025 period, stressing the work shouldbe done before December 31.

The PM also assigned specific tasks to the Ministry ofNatural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment, the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, andthe Ministry of Industry and Trade, among other ministries and agencies.

Meanwhile, localities were requested to consideropening appropriate intersections and optimise new development spaces alongexpressways./.
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