Vowing to build more than 3,000 kilometers of highways by 2025, Vietnam needs to have a new way of doing and thinking, new approaches, strong determination, great efforts and drastic action.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chính attended a ceremony in An Giang Province where he ordered simultaneously beginning the construction of four components projects of the first phase of the 188km Chau Doc-Can Tho-Soc Trang expressway.

Transport minister Nguyen Van Thang has sent a report to National Assembly (NA) deputies on issues he will be quizzed over this week at the NA question-and-answer session.

A coastal road connecting Ha Long and Cam Pha cities in the northern province of Quang Ninh was put into operation on April 30.

Seven North-South expressway component projects with a total length of about 411.6km will be completed and put into operation this year, according to the Ministry of Transport.