The Prime Minister requests provinces to immediately implement compensation, support, and resettlement work in parallel with the Ministry of Construction’s preparation of the Feasibility Study Report for the Lao Cai – Hanoi – Hai Phong Railway Project, to be completed in August 2025.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed Official Dispatch No. 54/CD-TTg dated April 30, 2025, on accelerating the progress of the Lao Cai – Hanoi – Hai Phong railway project.
The Official Dispatch is addressed to the Ministers of: Construction, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture and Rural Development, Natural Resources and Environment, Finance; Secretaries; and Chairpersons of the People’s Committees of the provinces and cities of: Hanoi, Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Phu Tho, Vinh Phuc, Bac Ninh, Hung Yen, Hai Duong, Hai Phong.
The Official Dispatch states: The Resolution of the 13th Party Congress, Conclusion No. 49-KL/TW of the Politburo, and transportation development plans have affirmed that railways are one of the transportation sectors that need prioritized investment. This is a mode of transportation with many advantages, large volume transport, fast, cheap, safe, environmentally friendly, and capable of wide and transnational connectivity. Therefore, the development of the railway system plays a key role in socio-economic development, connecting regions and promoting international integration.
Also in Conclusion No. 72-KL/TW, the Politburo requested "prioritizing resources to complete the Lao Cai – Hanoi – Hai Phong route…".
To ensure the goal of commencing and completing the Project on schedule in 2025; in the spirit of the historic April days "speed, more speed; boldness, more boldness", the Prime Minister requests the Minister of Construction and the Chairpersons of the People’s Committees of the provinces and cities through which the project passes to urgently and seriously implement the tasks.
Specifically, the Prime Minister assigns the Minister of Construction to proactively work with the localities to hand over the coordinates of the route centerline and the land clearance boundary as a basis for the localities to implement compensation, support, resettlement, and survey design to prepare the Feasibility Study Report for the project, to be completed in June 2025.
The Minister of Construction directs the Project Management Boards and consulting units to increase manpower and organize the simultaneous implementation of the preparation, appraisal, and approval of the Feasibility Study Report, construction design after basic design, bidding documents, request for proposal documents, and other procedures of the Project, with the working spirit of "working day and night", working "through holidays, Tet, and weekends", completing the procedures and commencing the Project on December 19, 2025.
In addition, urgently complete the dossier for submission to the National Assembly for a Resolution on specific and special mechanisms and policies for investment in the development of the railway system at the 9th session of the 15th National Assembly; report to the Government before May 5, 2025, as directed by the Prime Minister in Document No. 499/TTg-QHĐP dated April 29, 2025.
The Prime Minister also requests the Chairpersons of the People’s Committees of the provinces and cities of Hanoi, Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Phu Tho, Vinh Phuc, Bac Ninh, Hung Yen, Hai Duong, and Hai Phong to urgently establish Project Land Clearance Steering Committees in their localities, headed by the Provincial Party Committee Secretary or City Party Committee Secretary, to be completed before May 5, 2025, to focus on directing and mobilizing the entire political system at all levels to organize the implementation of land clearance for the project.
At the same time, direct all levels, sectors, and agencies of the locality to closely coordinate with the agencies of the Ministry of Construction and the Railway Project Management Board to receive documents (route centerline coordinates, land clearance boundary).
The provinces shall immediately organize the implementation of compensation, support, and resettlement of the project in parallel with the Ministry of Construction’s preparation of the Feasibility Study Report for the Project, to be completed in August 2025, to hand over the land for project construction.
Clearly define the task of implementing land clearance for the project as an important political task in direction and administration; pay attention to investing in the construction of resettlement areas, ensuring that people have new housing that is at least equal to or better than their old housing; do a good job of propaganda, mobilization, support, and creating more jobs and livelihoods for local people. If necessary, there should be temporary accommodation solutions to stabilize people’s lives and ensure project progress.
Regarding prioritizing the allocation of capital for project implementation, the Prime Minister requests the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment to closely coordinate with the Ministry of Construction and localities to accelerate procedures related to the conversion of forest use purposes, forest land, and rice land; proactively guide localities to organize the implementation of compensation, support, and resettlement of the Project, and promptly remove any obstacles according to assigned functions and tasks.
The Head of the Government assigns the Minister of Finance to direct the urgent review of savings from recurrent expenditures of the central and local governments in 2025 to prioritize allocation for project implementation; report to the Prime Minister in May 2025.
At the same time, the Prime Minister assigns Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha to directly monitor, direct, and remove difficulties and obstacles of the project.
