HANOI, Dec. 19 (Xinhua/APP): Ceremonies were held across Vietnam on Friday for the ground-breaking, inauguration, and technical traffic opening of 234 major projects and key works, the Vietnam News Agency reported.
The move is part of activities marking the upcoming 11th National Emulation Congress and the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
According to the Ministry of Construction, the projects have a total investment of over 3.4 quadrillion Vietnamese dong (about 135 billion U.S. dollars).
Several large projects were launched, including the Hanoi Olympic Sports Urban Area, the Red River Landscape Boulevard, a section of the Lao Cai-Hanoi-Hai Phong railway in northern Vietnam, and key expressways such as the Tan Phu-Bao Loc route in the central region.
Meanwhile, key works completed or opened to technical traffic include sections of the North-South Expressway from southern Vietnam’s provinces of Can Tho to Ca Mau, and the Long Thanh International Airport’s Phase 1 in the southern province of Dong Nai.