Vietnam aims for full disbursement of public investment this year

HANOI, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has urged ministries, sectors and localities to step up efforts to disburse public investment with the goal of allocating 100 percent of the capital this year, Vietnam News Agency reported Monday.

The Ministry of Finance said Vietnam's public investment disbursement reached 46.3 percent of the assigned plan in the first eight months of 2025, higher than the 40.4 percent recorded in the same period last year.

The prime minister stressed the need to accelerate disbursement in tandem with ensuring the quality of projects.

The National Assembly approved over 829.3 trillion Vietnamese dong (about 31.4 billion U.S. dollars) in public investment capital for 2025, the report said.

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