Dung said at a conference on December 12
that building materials accounted for 70 percent of the value of a construction
project. In the past years, investment in building materials had developed
strongly, basically meeting the domestic demand.
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Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung. Photo: VGP
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However, he said investment in producing
these materials had achieved many results, but the sector still lacked new
materials, friendly-environmental building materials at a cheap price, and
high-grade building materials.
Investment in the sector was done
spontaneously, not according to plan, leading to overproduction, illegal
exploitation of materials or exploitation with licenses but damaging the
environment.
The Deputy Prime Minister requested state
management and businesses should coordinate more to improve efficiency, invest
in the production of environmental-friendly building materials and select new
materials instead of traditional.
Construction materials must be developed to
meet demand for use at home and abroad, Dung said. At the same time, the sector
should gradually renovate production technologies, save energy and promote the
use of unbaked building materials to replace baked materials.
Dung asked the Ministry of Construction to
coordinate with other ministries and localities to update plans on
building-material production.
The ministry will review factories causing
environmental pollution and control the exploitation of stones, gravel and
sand.
At the conference, Minister of Construction
Pham Hong Ha said production of construction material had improved significant
to reach regional and world standards.
Before 2010, Vietnam had to import some key
building materials, such as cement, construction glass and ceramic tiles. Since
then, the building-material industry had developed strongly by adopting many
regional and world advanced technologies, Ha said.
Many experts claim the production of
traditional building materials had used large amounts of raw materials and
energy, contributing to environmental pollution.
The Ministry of Construction will urge its
agencies to continue researching and renovating technologies to create green,
clean and effective products and sustainable development.
Source: VNA