The DECISION to approve the development strategy of railway transportation to Vietnam by 2020 and the vision to 2050 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the PRIME MINISTER pursuant to the law on organization of the Government of 25 December 2001;
Pursuant to the conclusion of 27-KL/TW on September 17th, 2008 by the Politburo about the development strategy of railway transportation to Vietnam by 2020 and the vision to 2050;
Proposal of the Ministry of transportation in the sheet of 7731/TTr-BGTVT on October 22, 2008, Decisions 1. Approval of the development strategy of railway transportation to Vietnam by 2020 and the vision to 2050 with the following major contents: 1. a development perspective) the railway development strategy must fit in with the overall development strategy of the transportation and economic development strategy-the society of the country from now to the year 2020 and the vision to 2050;
b) rail transportation is an important part of infrastructure in socio-economic priority should be investment in development of one step ahead;
c) develop rail transportation to go straight into the modern, fast, durable, closely associated with the other transport modes; exert the advantage, serving the highest effectiveness for the development of the country;
d) mounted between the railway development with security, defense, protect the environment, ensure safe social order and contribute to reducing congestion, traffic accidents and the development of remote areas, areas difficult;
DD) State investment focus of infrastructure development national railway, began investing in the construction and upgrading of a number of key railway high speed routes such as North-South, the Lao Cai-Hanoi-Hai Phong and Hanoi-Dong Dang in the two corridors a Vietnam-China economic belt the same time, respected the work of maintenance of existing infrastructure, ensuring effective, smooth, orderly, safe;
e) fast growing transport of iron in the municipality, the inner-suburban railway, the core of public passenger transport, first released in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City;
g) encourage the economic sectors and the maximum mobilization of all resources involved developing investment infrastructure, means of transport and rail transport business according to the planning and management of the State, including State enterprises management system infrastructures and transport business in the main line railway the country's important.
h) promote development of science and technology, human resources and strengthen international cooperation in order to speedy industrialization, modernization of railway lines;
I) building industry specialization built strong to railway locomotives, rolling stock, accessories and spare parts for other equipment served well the needs of water and proceed to export;
k) Land Fund Earmarked for infrastructure development of railway traffic, ensuring the safety corridor railway traffic in accordance with the provisions of the Railway Act.
2. The development strategy a) General objectives focus state investment in development of infrastructure of countries at the same time encourage the economic component, the individual organizations participated in the investment. Development of management models of railway business towards modern, efficient.
-2020: Vietnam rail construction modern regular, sustainable development, environmental protection and safety. Completed and put into operation some high speed rail on the North-South axis, high speed access on rail corridors in Lao Cai-Hanoi-Hai Phong and Hanoi-Dong Dang. The current rail system was upgraded, restore the correct specifications. The connection with the railroad of the countries in the region, the industrial parks, ports and mines. In the big cities must build a number of urban railways contribute to reducing congestion, traffic accident. The rail industry products have high domestic rates. Transport services are extended and ensure quality.
-Vision 2050: meets the criteria for a country's railroads, industrial development, the national rail network, modern urban rail connection to the political center, cultural tourism, the key economic region, the large industrial park, the large port serving the requirements of socio-economic development , security, national defense and promote cultural tourism in the country and abroad with quality and high service.
b) specific goals to ensure the balance, match each timeline; determine the order of priority goals to focus resources for investment and development. In particular, the need for priority construction of urban railway systems in major cities such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi railway-Lao Cai, the North-South high speed railway.
-The period to 2020 + 13% meet the minimum requirement for the amount of rotation and 14% of the demand for the amount of rotation. In particular, on the main corridor as the North-South corridor is 37% of passengers, the Eastern Corridor-West is the 40% of passengers and more than 45% of the goods; meet the 20% of the demand for urban transport.
+ Implementation of the priority railway projects in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to put into exploitation; strive to complete and put into exploitation of Lao Cai railway-Hanoi-Haiphong and Hanoi-Dong Dang (in the two corridors, a Vietnam-China economic belt); investment in the construction is completed and put into operation in North-South high speed railway speed 350 km/h, early completion priority sections Hanoi-Hue or Danang-Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City-Nha Trang; completed and put into operation the yen Vien railway-PHA Lai-ha Long-CAI LAN railway connections, the large seaports, industrial parks, resorts ... at the same time improving the upgrade the existing national rail at the right technical level reached speeds of 120 km/h serves intercity transport freight, and rail connections with the ASEAN countries, research for the development of the railway network in the West of the country.
+ Vietnam's Railway Network must reach a density of 15 ÷ 17 km per 1000 km2 and about 50-70 km per 1 million residents, the pair reached the rate of 35 ÷ 39% and the electrification rate 40 ÷ 44% of which are mostly high speed rail North-South; high speed access on rail corridor East-West and the urban railway in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City.
+ Improving base construction, fabrication and Assembly of locomotives, wagons, manufacture of spare parts localization rate reaches 50-60%; technological innovation, expand production scale to new about 5,000-9,000 and 50,000 wagons-53,000 wagons with high quality to meet domestic demand as well as exports.
-Vision to 2050 + meet the minimum 20% of the amount of passengers and cargo rotation. In particular, on the main concourse as lang North-South is 40% of passengers, the East West is 45%-lang about passengers and more than 50% of the goods; meet the minimum 25% of the demand for urban transport.
+ Complete North-South high speed railway with the segment connecting Hanoi-Hue, Ho Chi Minh City-Hanoi-Mau; complete the construction of the railway, the trans-Asian Railway, a coastal railway line Northern Plains; Besides complete urban rail network in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City with the appropriate technology solutions such as go or go on to resolve the status of basic traffic jams need to focus investment in development of urban rail systems (metro and railway high above) in other major cities.
+ Vietnam's Railway Network must reach a density of 18 ÷ 21 km/1000 km2 and about 60-80 km/1 million inhabitants, the pair reached the rate of over 50% and the electrification rate above 50%.
+ Development and modernization of specialized industrial base 100% response to strive for domestic demand and towards exports.
c) policy and implementation solutions-about the Organization and institutional + continue to complete the master plan for developing the rail transport industry in line with the general planning orientations about transportation and the planning of economic development-society of the country in the coming time.
+ Additional research, build, modify the legal text, standards, procedures, processes, rules, pricing norms ... to complete the relevant legal system guarantee for the development of rail transport.
+ Build reasonable shipping rates in line with the market mechanism and economic and social conditions of each area. Use tax policy and macro financial policies to regulate the operation of rail transport.
+ Development of Vietnam Railway Corporation into Vietnam Railways Corporation owned multi active multidisciplinary model of the parent company-subsidiary. In which the parent company is the State-owned companies have management duties, maintenance of railway infrastructure, the organization operates the system of railway transportation. The company's independent accounting enterprises have a relationship with the parent company of capital, technology and brands operating in the field of railway transportation and other related fields under the provisions of the law.
+ Link, strengthen coordination among ministries, sectors, localities with Vietnam Railways Corporation. Enhance the Government's responsibility in the leadership, directs the implementation planning, preserving the land for railway development and ensure the safe order of railway traffic.
-About the mobilization of resources + actively deployed capital from the State budget; There are special mechanisms to mobilize capital from the economic sectors within and outside the country as ODA, concessional loan of Governments, government bonds to invest in construction of urban rail systems, the major arterial railways such as the railway North-South (especially the high speed rail) the railway, in two rows programme lang a Vietnam-China economic belt.

+ Formulate and enact mechanisms to encourage all economic sectors to invest in business and rail transport attracts at least 10% (year 2020) and 20% (2050) total investment from the economic component, the individual organizations for investing in the construction of infrastructure of railway traffic in many forms such as : land grab, infrastructure, joint ventures, build-exploitation-transfer (BOT), bonds works ... for the online and the offline phase has the advantage of exploitation according to the planning and management of the State.
+ Has the support mechanism of the industrial facility investment import railway lines modern new technology of advanced countries.
-Human resource development + enhanced investment in technical infrastructure, the renovation and expansion of the program in the form of training; importance of social work in training human resources enough to ensure high-quality service for the needs of the modern railway development.
+ Has the salary policy and the policies for laborers working in conditions that are characteristic of the railroads, especially in the remote areas, areas difficult.
+ Establishment of the Research Institute for training, intensive research on the railway sector; upgrade vocational colleges existing railway to qualified engineering practice, meet the needs of rail development now and in the future.
+ Take the training targets abroad undergraduate and postgraduate specialization on the railway.
-Science Technology + Research promote the policy, the application of science and technology, encourage training and attract skilled professionals working in the field of rail transport.
+ Scientific applications of new technologies in research, training, transport, mining, infrastructure construction, industry and services. Special focus on applying information technology to organizational planning extraction, collection and processing of information; system development and control of automated ticket investment, equipment and facilities and provide the services in accordance with international standards on the trains.
-About the expanded international cooperation international cooperation is the development of railroads, gain advanced experience in railway development, to cooperate in the training of human resources to receive and transfer the new modern advanced technology front to meet the development needs in the country , expand the market to the countries in the region and the world in the future.
Article 2. The Mission of the ministries and related units 1. Ministry of transportation: a) is responsible for managing and directing the implementation of the strategy, if there is additional need to update content then research the prime consideration, decision;
b) directed the building of overall planning and detailed planning to implement the strategy;
c) regularly reviews and updates the transport needs to develop investment projects reasonably ensure full response requires development of the economy. The case of major fluctuations need calculations suggest, timely correction.
2. Ministry of planning and investment, Ministry of finance, the State Bank of Vietnam: coordination, continued to study, improve and enact mechanisms to mobilize and use effective capital for investment in railway development.
3. Ministry of natural resources and environment: host, in cooperation with the Department of transportation to build the rule of law on the land for the railway, the only land boundary corridor rail traffic safety and protecting the land for the railway.
4. Industry: policy research ensure stable power for rail electrification and communication systems, signal.
5. The Ministry of education and training: hosted, in cooperation with the Ministry of transport created favorable conditions, taking the target domestic and foreign training on specialized railway.
6. the people's committees of provinces and cities under central railway have gone through: ensuring security, safety, advocacy organizations enhance the sense of protection of railway works.
7. Vietnam Railways Corporation: responsible research initiative proposed mechanisms, the policy related to the mining, electrical load, the training programs ... and in coordination with the ministries concerned, the implementation of this strategy.
Article 3. This decision has effect from the date of signing.
The Ministers, heads of ministerial agencies, heads of government agencies, the Chairman of the provincial people's Committee, central cities and units, the individual concerned is responsible for the implementation of this decision.