Vietnam develop infrastructure to improve people’s living standards
28/2/18
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc |
The development of physical infrastructure as well as
educational and health infrastructure is essential to improve the living
standards of people across the country, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has
said.
He made the statement at a conference in Hanoi on February 28 to review the implementation of the
Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s Resolution No.13-NQ/TW dated
January 16, 2012 on building a synchronous infrastructure system in order to
turn Vietnam
into a modernity-oriented industrial country by 2020.
The resolution requires focusing investment on
transport infrastructure, electricity supply, irrigation networks, climate
change adaptation and urban development.
From 2012, the Government promulgated an action
programme to realise this resolution.
PM Phuc recognised infrastructure development
over the past years, but pointed out shortcomings in the field such as
asynchronous planning and snail-speed implementation of some projects.
Poor infrastructure also hinders the country’s
development with urgent issues like traffic congestions and hospital overload.
The supplementation, revision and reform of
mechanisms and institutions are needed to develop infrastructure, the PM said,
underlining the proposal of the Ministry of Planning and Investment to promote
public-private partnership (PPP) form.
He noted that when the economic scale has
increased to over 5 quadrillion VND (218 billion USD) and the public debt
reduced to 61 percent, it is necessary to weigh measures to seek financial
resources from official development assistance (ODA), Government bonds, and
international bonds for infrastructure development.
Vietnam's public and private
sector infrastructure investment averaged 5.7 percent of gross domestic product
in recent years, the highest in Southeast Asia and compares with 6.8 percent in
China,
according to the Asian Development Bank. Indonesia
and the Philippines spend
less than 3 percent, while Malaysia
and Thailand
spend even less at under 2 percent.
The ADB estimates that emerging economies in the region will need to
invest as much as 26 trillion USD through 2030 to build transport
networks, boost power supply and upgrade water and sanitation facilities. Vietnam, among the fastest-growing nations in
the world, is boosting infrastructure to lure more foreign investors as it
positions itself as Asia's next Tiger Economy.
Vietnam needs about 480 billion
USD through 2020 to construct 11 power plants with total capacity of 13,200
megawatts and about 1,380 kilometres of highways as well as carry out other
environment, health and education projects.
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