The Vietnamese Government aims to disbursed all public investment planned for this year as well as the public investment sums transferred from previous years in an effort to accelerate post-pandemic economic recovery. (Photo: baophapluat.vn)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The disbursement of public investment sourced fromthe State budget in July increased to its highest rate in the past four years.
The money came as Vietnam hurried up public investment disbursement as one ofmajor drivers to get the economy back on its feet after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Latest updates from the finance ministry showed that the State budget sourcedpublic investment disbursement was estimated at total 45.7 trillion VND (1.97billion USD) in July, representing a rise of 51.8 percent against the sameperiod last year.
This year the disbursement of public investment totalled 203 trillion VND,equivalent to 42.7 percent of the plan for the full year and up by 27.2 percentover the same period in 2019.
Ministries with good growth in disbursing public investment were the Ministryof Transport, 8.34 trillion VND, equivalent to 41.6 percent of the plan for thefull year and up 91.7 percent against the same period last year. The Ministryof Health disbursed a sum worth 2.3 trillion VND, 34.7 percent of the targetand up 36.1 percent while the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development saw1.76 trillion VND in disbursed capital, 39.6 percent and 34.1 percent,respectively.
Hanoi saw disbursed investment capital worth more than 22 trillion VND, or 48.6percent of the plan for the full year, Ho Chi Minh City 17 trillion VND, 35.8 percentand Quang Ninh 8.46 trillion VND, 60.9 percent.
The Vietnamese Government targeted to disburse all public investment plannedfor this year as well as the public investment sums transferred from previousyears in an effort to accelerate post-pandemic economic recovery.
This means that about 630 trillion VND must be disbursed this year.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked the Ministry of Planning and Investmentand the Ministry of Finance from the beginning of August to transfer publiccapital from ministries and localities which failed to make disbursement toprojects which could spend the money.
The finance ministry’s report showed that about 160 trillion VND was disbursedin the first half of this year./.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc inspected site clearance at the Long Thanh International Airport project on July 21, where he urged Dong Nai province to take more drastic action to disburse public funding for the key national project.
Districts and sectors in HCM City have been requested to ensure at least 80 percent of this year’s public funds are disbursed by October 15 and to raise the rate to over 95 percent by year’s end, as the city has committed to the Government.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong to quicken the disbursement of public investment, as it reached just 35 percent in the first half of this year.
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