Decision No. 287/QD-TTg dated February 24, 2011 of the Prime Minister amending, supplementing the Decision No.1451/QD-TTg dated August 12, 2010 on promulgation of national action plan on anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing

APPROVING THE DETAILED MASTER PLAN ON BELT ROAD 4 WITH THE LENGTH OF 98 KM AND 6 EXPRESS LANES

The belt road shall have 6 express lanes (design speed of 100 km/h) with collector roads and corridors along both sides reserved for planting trees, building technical infrastructure facilities and future expansion. The total width is 120 m. The reserve land strip at some special positions may be narrowed.

This is the planned scale of the belt road 4 which was approved in the detailed master plan on belt road 4 of Hanoi Capital Region, the section south of national highway 18 issued with the Decision No. 1287/QD-TTg dated July 29, 2011.

The belt road will run through the administrative boundaries of 14 districts and cities of 3 provinces and cities: Hanoi city (Soc Son, Me Linh, Dan Phuong, Hoai Duc, Thanh Oai and Thuong Tin rural districts and Ha Dong urban district), Hung Yen province (Van (Jiang, Khoai Chan, Yen My and Van Lam rural districts), Bac Ninh province (Thuan Thanh and Que Vo rural districts and Bac Ninh city)

Route direction includes starting point: Km3+695 on Noi Bai - Lao Cai expressway (in Thanh Xuan commune, Soc Son district, Hanoi) and  the ending point: Km 35+300 on Noi Bai -Ha Long expressway (in Nam Son commune, Bac Ninh city, Bac Ninh province). The total length of belt road IV's section south of national highway 18 is around 98 km. There are 12 interchanges and some overpasses and tunnels for convenient traffic link between the two roadsides.

The land area used for construction of the road under the master plan is approximately 1.230 ha, including around 740 ha of Hanoi city, some 230 ha of Hung Yen province and about 260 ha of Bac Ninh province. The total investment capital demand for construction of the belt road 4's section south of national highway 18 is estimated at around VND 66.5 trillion (exclusive of funds for construction of overpasses on roads being planned which will be built under investment projects on building such roads).