Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Official Dispatch No. 1082/CD-TTg on August 16 on speeding up the implementation and disbursement of the 2021 public investment capital plan. Disbursement reached just 36.71 per cent of the plan in the first seven months of the year, with many agencies not yet disbursing anything and the disbursement of ODA and concessional loans from foreign donors being particularly low, at 7.52 per cent.