Deputy Premier wants six power plants completed by 2004
HANOI - Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan
Dung has said the government is resolved to complete on schedule by 2004
the construction of six electric power plants in the Phu My gas-
electricity-fertilizer complex project in oil-mining Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province.
The permanent deputy prime minister called on project executives to meet
the deadline so as to ensure the complex's power-generating capacity of
4,000 MW, or around 40 per cent of the national total. He was visiting the
multi-billion US dollar industrial complex as part of his tour of industrial parks
in the southern province on 12 September.
A shortage of power in Vietnam will hinder the country's important
process of industrialization and modernization, emphasized Dung. In addition,
construction of the fertilizer project should be speeded up to solve the current
shortage of fertilizers. Once completed, the project alone will produce
between 700,000-800,000 tonnes of fertilizer a year as compared to the
current national production of just 100,000 tonnes a year.
BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific - September 14, 2001.
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