All Vietnamese communes to have paved roads by 2010

Vietnam will invest nearly 41.8 trillion Vietnamese dong (some 2.6 billion U.S. dollars) in upgrading and building paved roads in rural areas from now to 2010, so that all of its communes will have paved roads leading to their centers by the year, local newspaper Labor reported Monday.

Now, 280 communes in Vietnam have no paved roads leading to their centers, according to the Transport Development and Strategy Institute under the country's Transport Ministry.

Vietnam will build more concrete and asphalted roads, and bridges in rural areas. Such roads and bridges in the areas are now insufficient and of poor quality.

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/91341/6292738.html

A tad late, but better late than never I always say! Vietnam really needs to do away with those communes.

is this double pavement including a sub one ? Lets hope for some nice civil designer on those road n less bumpy!

I don't know whether I should feel gratified or scared at this good news: I am definitely worried about corruption, and the prospect of building roads that fall apart within months due to contractor/regulatory agency colluion/corruption gives me cold chills. I'd like to see safeguards put in place so that this sort of scenario does not happen.

I know, this is supposed to be finished by now. There are 3 reasons for this, new provinces (Dak Nong, Dien Bien), districts and communes (e.g. Phu Thien in Gia Lai province), the other 2 reasons as blacklight said are corruption and natural disasters in remote regions (landslide, flood).
@blacklight: this is an ongoing process for quite some time now. In the past, when the government built roads in remote regions, they also did release a temporary decree to restrict selling land along the road because Kinh ethnics just simply bought land along the road from other minority ethnics for a price of a motorbike or so, but now ethnic minorities seem more integrated to the society
@notnice2know: double pavements in commune centers, inter-commune roads use asphalt concrete, intra-commune with concrete.

There is also another ongoing project to build a complete network of hospitals down to district level. The mountainous and remote regions get the priorities so children from remote regions can enjoy free health care as well.