Review and remove investment projects with difficulties and long-standing backlogs.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed Official Dispatch No. 13/CD-TTg dated February 8, 2025 requesting ministries, branches and localities to urgently review and fully report on investment projects with difficulties, obstacles and long-term backlogs to promptly resolve and immediately implement the projects.

According to the telegram, implementing the direction of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Planning and Investment issued Document 10339/BKHĐT-TTr dated December 16, 2024 requesting ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities to send reports on reviewing and removing difficulties and obstacles related to projects to the Ministry of Planning and Investment before January 20, 2025.

However, by February 7, 2025, only 33 localities and 9 ministries and central agencies had sent reports to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

The Prime Minister commended the ministries, agencies and localities for actively performing their assigned tasks and submitting reports on time; at the same time, he criticized and requested the ministries and 30 localities that have not submitted review reports, clearly identifying individual responsibilities, and reporting to the Prime Minister before February 17, 2025.

At the same time, report the results of the review of state-owned corporations and groups to the Prime Minister before February 15, 2025. The Ministry of Finance will synthesize and report to the Prime Minister.

In order to promptly remove difficulties and obstacles for projects nationwide, avoid administrative review, causing waste of resources, the Prime Minister requests ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities to urgently review and synthesize all projects with difficulties, obstacles, and backlogs for a long time according to the forms and contents proposed by the Ministry of Planning and Investment in Document 10339/BKHĐT-TTr dated December 16, 2024, send them to the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Planning and Investment no later than February 15, 2025; be responsible to the Government and the Prime Minister for the completeness and accuracy of the information, content, and data reported and proposed.

After February 15, if ministries, agencies and localities have not yet sent reports on reviewing and removing difficulties and obstacles related to projects to the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Prime Minister will assign the Government Inspectorate to conduct inspections to consider responsibilities and strictly handle them according to the regulations of the Central Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption, Wastefulness and Negativity.