A section of the Đồng Đăng-Trà Lĩnh Expressway under construction. — VNA/VNS Photo Chu Hiệu

HÀ NỘI — Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính urged the acceleration of national key transport projects while chairing a meeting in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

At the 11th meeting of the State's Steering Committee for national key transport projects and works, the Government leader lauded efforts by investors, constructors, engineers and labourers in the implementation of the projects over the past time.

PM Chính, who is also head of the committee, reiterated the targets of 3,000km of expressways by 2025 and 5,000km by 2030 as set at the 13th National Party Congress and highlighted the enormous workload for this year.

PM Chính chairs the meeting on Wednesday. —VNA/VNS Photo Dương Giang

He asked ministries, agencies and localities to take more drastic actions to remove roadblocks to ensure the progress and quality of the projects, while fighting corruption and other negative phenomena in this regard.

Stressing the importance of site clearance, he urged localities to work harder in this stage, and complete procedures to ensure materials for the construction, along with paving the way for new projects.

Ministries and agencies were also asked to quickly address the bottlenecks regarding foreign loans, and send working groups to localities, helping them mitigate obstacles in construction work.

For the circuit-3 500kV transmission line, the leader ordered great efforts in land clearance and resettlement in order to achieve the project completion goal in June. — VNS