On the morning of August 18th, in Dak Lak province, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh launched the peak period of "500 days and nights striving to complete 3,000 km of expressways".

Delegates attend the ceremony.

Participants in the ceremony included: Pham Thi Thanh Tra - Party Central Commissioner, Minister of Interior, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Central Commendation Commission; Nguyen Dinh Khang - Chairman of the General Federation of Labor of Vietnam; Ho Duc Phoc - Party Central Commissioner, Finance Minister; Pham Tat Thang - Party Central Commissioner, Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Central People's Committee; Nguyen Hai Ninh - Party Central Committee Member, Secretary of Khanh Hoa Provincial Committee with representatives of ministries and central departments.

Participants of Dak Lak Province in the ceremony included: Nguyen Dinh Trung - Party Central Committee Member, Provincial Committee Secretary; Pham Ngoc Nghi - Deputy Secretary of Provincial Committee, Chairman of Provincial People's Committee; Huynh Thi Chien Hoa - Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Counciland representatives of relevant departments, boards, sectors and units.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh spoke at the ceremony

The ceremony was connected online to 13 bridge points of the provinces including Tuyen Quang, Quang Binh, Da Nang, Binh Dinh, Khanh Hoa, Dong Nai, Ba Ria - Vung Tau, Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Thap, Ca Mau, Soc Trang, An Giang and Tien Giang.

According to the master plan, the national expressway network consists of 41 routes with a total length of 9,014 km. The Central and Central Highlands regions have 13 routes with a length of 3,841 km. Among them, the Central Highlands region has 9 expressway routes, including the North-South vertical route in the west with a total length of 495 km from Ngoc Hoi to Chon Thanh, and 8 horizontal routes with a length of about 1,404 km.

By the end of 2025, the Central Highlands region is expected to have 87 km of expressways. In 2026, it will have 136 km, and by 2030, the goal is to have 1,148 km of expressways. In the period after 2030, an additional 751 km of expressways will be invested in according to the plan, bringing the total length of expressways in the Central Highlands region to 1,899 km.

Regarding the investment project for the construction of the Khanh Hoa - Buon Ma Thuot expressway phase 1, according to the report of the Ministry of Transport, this is the first project to be built among the 8 horizontal routes in the Central Highlands region, connecting from Nam Van Phong Port in Khanh Hoa to the North-South expressway in the west, Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak province. The actual total length is 116.4 km, divided into 3 component projects, assigned to Khanh Hoa province, the Ministry of Transport, and Dak Lak province as the managing agencies.

Deputy Minister of Transport Le Anh Tuan delivered a speech in response to the emulation at the ceremony.

Over the past 3 years, with the resolute direction of the Prime Minister, on the spirit of "focus on doing, not retreating", "overcome the sun, conquer the rain", and construction in "3 shifts, 4 crews", ministries, sectors, and localities have overcome all difficulties and obstacles to accelerate the progress of projects. Up to now, the total length of expressways nationwide has reached 2,021 km. In just the past 3 years, the country has completed and put into operation 858 km, equivalent to more than 2/3 of the total length of expressways implemented in nearly 20 years before (about 1,163 km).

Speaking at the launching ceremony, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed that the development of a comprehensive and modern infrastructure is one of the three strategic breakthroughs, in which the development of transportation infrastructure is a crucial pillar, creating new development space, driving economic and social development, ensuring national defense and security, and laying a solid foundation for the country's development.

The Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress sets the target of putting into operation 3,000 km of expressways by 2025 and striving to put into operation 5,000 km by 2030. In recent times, the implementation of investment and development of transportation infrastructure has been given special attention by ministries, agencies, localities, with new thinking, new approaches, and ensuring the three objectives of "quality, progress, and efficiency". Up to now, the country has completed nearly 700 km of expressways, passing through 15 provinces and cities, bringing the total length of expressways to over 2,000 km.

The completed projects have contributed to promoting economic and social development, creating new development spaces, new urban areas, services, and industries, increasing land value, reducing logistics costs, enhancing the competitiveness of the economy. At the same time, they have brought significant changes to the country, contributing to job creation and livelihoods for the people and businesses, improving the material and spiritual lives of the people, and strengthening the people's trust in the Party and the State.

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Pham Ngoc Nghi delivered a speech in response to the emulation at the ceremony.

The Prime Minister praised and acknowledged the efforts and endeavors of the members of the State Steering Committee for important national projects, key projects in the transportation sector, ministries, agencies, localities, investors, project management boards, contractors, consultants, and workers. He also expressed gratitude to the people in the project areas for their support, land and housing contributions to the construction of important national projects.

To achieve the set goals, the Prime Minister called on ministries, sectors, localities, investors, Project Management Boards, supervisory consultants, construction contractors, and participating businesses, especially engineers, officials, workers, and the entire population to continue to uphold the highest sense of responsibility, promptly overcome all difficulties and obstacles, actively participate in the emulation movement, and strive to complete projects ensuring quality and progress.

Ministries, departments, localities need to strengthen the leadership and direction of Party committees, organize party organizations, and government at all levels to continue to promote the achievements that have been achieved with a spirit of ideological unity, high determination, great efforts, decisive actions, focusing on completing assigned tasks, and assigning "clear people, clear tasks, clear time, clear responsibilities, clear products, clear effectiveness".

The Chairpersons of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities with ongoing transportation infrastructure projects need to mobilize the entire political system, propagate and mobilize the people to accelerate the progress of land clearance, relocation of technical infrastructure, with a focus on investing in the construction of resettlement areas, ensuring that people have new accommodations that are at least equal to or better than their old ones. Investors and construction contractors need to raise their sense of responsibility, work in "3 shifts and 4 crews", "seize every opportunity, work diligently", "finish what they start", and "fulfill their commitments and promises".

Responding to the peak emulation campaign launched by the Prime Minister, Pham Ngoc Nghi, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the People's Committee of Dak Lak province, emphasized that the Khanh Hoa - Buon Ma Thuot expressway project is a national key project and the first expressway project in Dak Lak province to be entrusted with management. Implementing the Prime Minister's directions, the entire political system of Dak Lak province has been actively involved with a sense of urgency and high determination, along with the active support and assistance of central agencies, departments, and the consensus of the ethnic people in the province.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh gave gifts and encouraged investors and contractors.

Dak Lak province commits to continue to focus on leadership and direction, along with relevant agencies, units, and localities, to be more determined and resolute in monitoring, urging, and creating the most favorable conditions for construction units and consultants to complete Component 3 of the project by 2025, ensuring quality.

On this occasion, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presented gifts and encouraged the investors and construction contractors of the expressway project.