However, the reality shows that many construction works still face difficulties, especially site clearance issues affecting construction progress. Faced with this situation, departments, sectors, and localities are being required to focus highly, resolutely resolve remaining issues to ensure projects are completed on schedule.

These days, on the construction site of the Project for Preservation and Embellishment of the Him Lam Resistance Center Relic Area (Phase II), the working atmosphere is urgent and rushed. From early morning until late at night, the construction units diligently stick to the site, working continuous shifts to ensure progress. Groups of workers are quickly deploying ground leveling, concrete revetment for the embankment slope, pouring concrete foundations for the relief, or constructing the wooden parts of the incense house with the determination to complete the work on schedule.

The project belongs to Group B, a Type III civil works project, with a total investment of VND 91 billion, including many important items such as a relief sculpture 45m long and 8.9m high; a hexagonal incense offering house; a square area system, parking lots... With the implementation period in 2023 - 2025, the project has achieved cumulative disbursement of over 60% of the allocated capital plan, with many items nearing completion.

Đặng Văn Thiện from Phuc Linh Co., Ltd. said: “The large workload, spread over hilly terrain, makes construction difficult. To ensure progress, the company has mobilized workers to work overtime at night, but everyone is determined because this is a project of special historical significance.”

To date, items such as: the incense stele at strongpoint 1 - where Hero Phan Đình Giót sacrificed his life have been completed; the repair of the reception house, pouring concrete for the shaped embankment slope, deploying the drainage system... are being accelerated. Tô Văn Thuận, Management Board of Civil and Industrial Works Projects, said: Currently, the rough carving part of the relief item has been completed and is being installed at the site. Items like ground leveling, concrete revetment, the wooden part of the incense house, and paving stones on the roads leading up to the strongpoints are all being implemented simultaneously. In the coming time, the unit will continue to urge contractors to speed up progress, strengthen supervision, and perform disbursement and payment according to regulations.

Previously, the Project Management Board and Land Fund Development of Area 1 highly focused on accelerating the progress of the project to build the resettlement area and sites for the provincial Administrative - Political Center Area, which is part of the plan to move the administrative-political center. With the goal of ensuring site clearance and completing technical infrastructure according to the roadmap, relevant units mobilized maximum human resources and equipment, especially for key bidding packages. Regarding site clearance, the investor has received handover from 44/46 households (corresponding to 12.15/12.58 hectares). From November 8 - 14, site clearance continued to be deployed, but problems persisted because residents did not agree to hand over the land.

Faced with that reality, the Project Management Board and Land Fund Development of Area 1 directed the contractors to set detailed schedules, concentrate human resources on bidding packages 2 and 3; and simultaneously coordinated with competent authorities to complete the dossiers for the Mường Thanh ward People’s Committee to issue a decision on mandatory land recovery for non-compliant households, ensuring the project is completed on schedule.

On the construction site of the transport project connecting key economic areas along National Highway 279 and National Highway 12 (the Dynamic Road project), the construction atmosphere in recent days has always been urgent, with contractors making maximum use of time in locations with clean sites. The entire route is over 35.3km long, with nearly 30km outside the urban area being focused on construction. However, the biggest difficulty currently lies in site clearance.

The project requires site clearance of over 83.28 hectares belonging to 1,751 households and 13 organizations. To date, localities have approved 99.73% of the area and actually handed over over 96.9% of the site, but problems still exist. In the 2022 - 2023 period, the site was handed over piecemeal, making it impossible to construct many road segments due to lack of access for equipment or lack of synchronous site clearance between the excavation and embankment parts. By 2024 - 2025, although the handover rate has reached over 97% in most localities, there are still cases of people who have not received money, have not dismantled assets, or deliberately obstruct construction.

To speed up the project implementation progress, the provincial Management Board of Transport Projects requested contractors to continue accelerating in locations that already have cleared sites; and simultaneously proposed that localities complete additional compensation procedures and resolutely handle cases of deliberate non-compliance. In parallel, working groups closely monitor the grassroots level, mobilize residents, ensuring a balance of legitimate interests to soon have enough synchronous sites for construction, striving to complete the project on schedule, creating a strategic traffic axis to promote the province’s economic development.

From now until the end of the year, time is short, and key projects in the province are entering the construction acceleration phase. Therefore, difficulties in compensation and site clearance must be resolved completely and resolutely. Especially for projects where the site handover is not synchronous, or where residents have not received compensation, have not handed over assets, or have arising complaints about compensation prices. This directly affects the construction progress and the disbursement of public investment capital.

Faced with that situation, the Department of Finance requested investors to urgently focus resources and accelerate the implementation progress of projects scheduled for completion in 2025; resolutely and completely handle projects that have already had their implementation time extended. For key projects being deployed in Thanh Nưa, Thanh Yên communes and 2 wards: Mường Thanh, Điện Biên Phủ, site clearance must be prioritized immediately, ensuring the handover of a clean site according to the committed time milestones. The Department of Finance requested investors to focus on disbursement and payment of completed volumes, especially for projects that have been allocated sufficient capital needs according to the disbursement commitment.

Besides, the People’s Committees of communes, wards, and units assigned as investors need to closely follow the direction of the Standing Board of the provincial Party Committee and the provincial People’s Committee, focusing on construction, accelerating site clearance, and completing relevant dossiers and procedures. The units must seriously maintain a reporting regime, providing full information on the progress of key projects as required by the provincial People’s Committee, contributing to ensuring overall progress and promoting the effectiveness of public investment capital disbursement in 2025. From now until the end of the year, the requirement to complete key projects is increasingly urgent. Therefore, in addition to the decisive direction of the province and departments/sectors, investors and construction units need to continue maximizing resource mobilization, closely coordinating with localities to seriously fulfill their assigned responsibilities. When difficulties are resolved promptly, sites are handed over synchronously, and capital is disbursed on schedule, key infrastructure projects will soon be completed, creating an important driving force to promote the province’s socio-economic development in the coming period.