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29/11/2020 - 18:04

Minister of Planning and Investment - Nguyen Chi Dung works in Long An

On November 27, the delegation of the Ministry of Planning and Investment led by Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Planning and Investment - Nguyen Chi Dung had a meeting in Long An. Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Van Ut and leaders of departments, committees, and branches welcome and work with the delegation.

In the working program, the delegation visits Long An International Port (Can Giuoc District), Provincial Road 823D (Duc Hoa District).

The delegation surveys the Provincial Road 823D

According to the Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Van Ut, Long An's economy has grown at a fairly high rate in recent years, the growth rate in the 2016-2020 period reaches 9.11 percent per year. In the term 2020-2025, Long An has set out a number of key socio-economic development targets, 3 key projects, and 3 breakthrough programs to bring the province to continue developing in a new stage.

In addition, the province focuses on infrastructure investment, especially transport infrastructure to serve the local socio-economic development, creating regional links, expanding cooperation in fields between Long An and the provinces, cities over the country.

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Van Ut proposed the Ministry of Planning and Investment to consider supporting capital for some projects. For DPO project, previously, the Minister agreed to support Long An province with capital to build 3 bridges on Provincial Road 827E (formerly the driving force of Ho Chi Minh City - Long An - Tien Giang) with the support capital of 1,700 billion VND. The Long An People's Committee requested the Minister to support the capital to construct the road with the construction value of 1,300 billion VND.

For regional link projects under Resolution 973/2020/UBTVQH14 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, Long An province was approved by the Minister to support the provincial Road project 823D with a total capital of 1,000 billion VND. The Long An People's Committee asked the Minister to continue to support the project of Tan Tap - Long Hau Road (8.5 kilometers including bridges and roads), which is about 700 billion VND.

For ODA loan to implement some works such as Provincial Road 830E (from the intersection of Ben Luc expressway to Provincial road 830), the bridge over Vam Co Tay river, Tan An city (the starting point is Provincial Road 827B) and the end point at the roundabout of National Highway 1, Ward 5), Bridges of Dong An Bridge and Tac Can, Tan An City Wastewater Treatment Area with a capital of 98.1 million USD. The province requested the Minister of Planning and Investment to agree to support Long An province and synthesize this project list and submit to the Prime Minister to include in the list of medium-term public investment plans for the period 2021-2025 for implementation, in order to contribute part of socio-economic development of Long An province in the coming time.

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Minister of Planning and Investment - Nguyen Chi Dung works in Long An

Minister of Planning and Investment - Nguyen Chi Dung highly appreciated the results that Long An has achieved in recent years. He emphasized that Long An can completely make a breakthrough if it knows how to grasp opportunities as well as opportunities for development.

With regard to the recommendations of Long An province, the Minister agreed. In particular, on the proposal to support capital for the construction of Provincial Road 827E with the capital of 1,300 billion VND, the Ministry will have a plan to discuss, when the additional capital will give priority to support Long An because the current capital source about 24,000 billion VND in the Mekong River Delta development program has been balanced and arranged for localities. The Ministry supports 1,000 billion VND to build Provincial Road 823D as planned.

The Minister suggested Long An consider and add the Tan Tap - Long Hau road project to the list of ODA loans and will support 120 million USD of ODA capital for Long An to implement projects as proposed./.

By Thanh My – Translated by Duc Tam

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