At the regular meeting of the Thanh Hoa Provincial People’s Committee in July, some opinions said that the shortage of construction materials, high prices, and even the inability to buy land, sand, and stone have greatly affected the progress of construction works and projects in the province.

The transfer and handover of public investment projects to the commune level after the end of the district-level government’s operations have not met the required progress, due to the large number of documents and the debts of the transferred projects have not been completely resolved.

In addition, some communes are weak in capacity and qualifications, and are confused in appraisal, quality management, project progress, and financial management. Some provincial-level investors have been assigned very large capital plans (accounting for 23.8% of the total capital plan for 2025), but the disbursement rate is very low and there has not been a clear change.

Thanh Hoa provincial leaders have directed sectors, especially the Department of Construction, Agriculture and Environment, the Office of the Provincial People’s Committee and the Thanh Hoa Provincial Public Administration Service Centre to coordinate with the Department of Science and Technology to disseminate relevant legal documents, issue necessary “handbooks” to the commune level; based on the functions, tasks and responsibilities of each sector, actively provide professional training to ministries and civil servants of 166 communes, exchange, guide and support to remove difficulties arising at the grassroots level.

Leaders also directed sectors to focus on resolving backlog projects, stopped construction, direct investment projects, infrastructure investment projects in industrial parks and industrial clusters with slow progress, cases of slow land use, and effectively manage and handle surplus public assets after the rearrangement of administrative units at all levels.

Relevant sectors have been urged to resolutely, synchronously and effectively implement solutions to accelerate the disbursement progress of the 2025 public investment capital plan; review public investment projects, especially those decided by the district level for investment that are not really urgent and do not ensure the ability to balance capital, resolutely stop implementation to avoid wasting the state budget, promptly transfer planned capital to projects with good disbursement capacity.

It is also necessary to further promote the effectiveness of the Working Groups to inspect, urge, remove difficulties and obstacles and promote the disbursement of public investment capital.

Along with urging to accelerate the progress of transferring investors, preparing for investment, considering transferring public investment capital, Thanh Hoa provincial leaders also requested to evaluate and advise on transferring some leaders of the provincial Project Management Board; as well as focus on resolving difficulties and obstacles to complete the highest level of the Land Clearance Plan in the province in 2025, contributing to disbursing 100% of the capital plan assigned by the Prime Minister.