Provincial mergers can boost infrastructure connectivity

In the past, when we planned for regional traffic connectivity improvements, local areas which benefited more from these investments would be more proactive than others.

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The funding came from the State budget, but these local authorities would make more efforts in land clearance. However, localities with fewer benefits from this infrastructure were less enthusiastic, leading to slow progress in land clearance.

For example, there was a stretch of road passing through Nam Dinh Province to reach Thai Binh Province, including a section linking Nam Dinh City to Tan Bridge situated between the two localities.

This project took years to complete on the Nam Dinh side, while the construction in Thai Binh had been finished long ago. Nam Dinh made minimal efforts because it did not benefit much from this road section.