PM requests design of middle-term public investment plan

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked ministries, ministry-level and central agencies as well as centrally-run localities to make middle-term plans for public investment in the 2021-2025 period.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked for middle-term plans for public investment in the 2021-2025 period. (Image for illustration/Photo: VNA)
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked for middle-term plans for public investment in the 2021-2025 period. (Image for illustration/Photo: VNA)

In a directive issued on July 29, the PM said the objective of the plan is to attract and optimise resources for economic development and infrastructure expansion, thus completing goals set for 2021-2030 as well as the socio-economic development plan for the 2021-2025 period.

Public investment should focus on speeding up national target programmes and major projects significant to the socio-economic development of the whole country, as well as supporting ethnic minority group, mountainous regions, and disaster-prone and poor areas, asked the PM.

He stressed that public investment should not be poured into projects in which other economic sectors can invest.

Ministries, sectors and localities should mobilise more resources from other economic sectors, especially the private sector, through public-private partnerships.

Under the directive, the designing of public investment plan for 2021-2025 should be suitable for the financial plan for the period. Capital will not be spent on programmes and projects in areas that are not covered by public investment.

Ministries, sectors and localities were requested to define prioritised areas for investment, while focusing on paying pre-paid capital from the State budget as scheduled.

According to the directive, agencies should prepare capital for the investment plan in 2020 and the 2021-2025 period, and to pay debts for capital construction which arose before January 1, 2015.