This decision was issued right after the National Assembly Standing Committee passed Resolution No. 273/NQ-UBTVQH15 on the policy of changing the use purpose of forests, forest land and wet rice land for two or more crops.This is a very important milestone, officially ending the project investment preparation phase and moving to the project implementation phase.According to the approved decision of the Ministry of Transport, 12 preliminary North-South expressway component projects total investment of nearly 147,000 billion VND.The project is invested with a total length of more than 700km on the main line, including sections: Ha Tinh - Quang Tri (nearly 261km), Quang Ngai - Nha Trang (more than 350km) and Can Tho - Ca Mau (nearly 111km).12 North-South expressway component projects, phase 2, have been approved by the Ministry of Transport (Artwork: Do Quan).Previously, the project to build the East North-South Expressway in the 2021-2025 period was approved by the National Assembly in the Resolution No. 44/2022/QH15 dated January 11, 2022.On February 11, 2022, the Government issued Resolution No. 18/NQ-CP to direct and assign tasks to relevant ministries, branches and localities to implement.Immediately after the Government's resolution, the Ministry of Transport directed the project management boards of the Ministry of Transport to organize the selection of design consultancy contractors, verification consultants, etc. to conduct the survey. , design and prepare a feasibility study for 12 component projects.By the end of June 2022, specialized units of the Ministry of Transport have completed the appraisal of the feasibility study report.The Project Management Boards of the Ministry of Transport have handed over the documents to the localities, planted the site clearance piles (GPMB) of the entire more than 700km of the main route (reaching 100%) for the locality to take the next steps, ensure the scheduled progress.The Ministry of Transport said that immediately after approving the investment project, the Ministry of Transport will organize the formulation of technical designs for construction and installation bidding packages and carry out related works to start construction before December 31, 2020. 2022.In order to meet the progress according to the Government's Resolution 18, the Ministry of Transport requested localities to appoint contractors for bidding packages to select consulting units and contractors to carry out the relocation of technical infrastructure, compensation, and settlement. site clearance and resettlement in accordance with the law;organize the implementation of compensation, support and resettlement, to hand over 70% of the site clearance area of ​​the bidding packages to be started before November 20, 2022.The Ministry of Transport also asked localities to support units of the Ministry of Transport to carry out work related to mining construction materials, identify dumping sites so that construction can be implemented immediately.