According to the Directive, the Prime Minister of Vietnam sets out tasks for ministries, central agencies, and localities to immediately implement, for example, as follows:
- To reduce the number of newly started projects, especially ministries, central agencies, and localities that have many projects that cause new construction; ensuring that each new construction project must have a specific explanation for the reason; and taking full responsibility before the government and the Prime Minister of Vietnam.
- The Prime Minister of Vietnam may allocate central budget capital for local start-up projects of group C unless otherwise approved by the Prime Minister of Vietnam.
- To resolutely cut out projects that are not really necessary and ineffective.
- Programs and projects implemented in the 02 periods of the medium-term public investment plan must comply with regulations, not exceeding 20% of the total capital according to Clause 2, Article 89 of Vietnam's Law on Public Investment.
- The target for the total number of public investment projects from the central budget of the whole country in the 2021–2025 period is about 5,000 projects.
Directive 13/CT-TTg was issued on May 23, 2021.
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