SDG are known as Sustainable Development Goals. This is a call from the United Nations (UN) to all countries around the world to address the major challenges facing humanity, towards a better and more sustainable future for all people by 2030. The Sustainable Development Goals are divided into 17 specific goals related to the most common issues, thereby providing direction for individuals, businesses, governments and countries to know what issues must be paid attention to and how to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, protect the earth from the human life impacts and ensure the improvement of the life quality for each person. The United Nations identified 17 goals for 2030 including:

Goal 1 (No Poverty): End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Goal 2 (Zero Hunger): End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being): Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Goal 4 (Quality Education): Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Goal 5 (Gender Equality): Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Goal 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation): Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Goal 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy): Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Goal 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth): Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Goal 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure): Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 10 (Reduce Inequalities): Reduce inequality within and among countries

Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities): Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Goal 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production): Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Goal 13 (Climate Action): Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Goal 14 (Life Below Water): Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Goal 15 (Life On Land): Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Goal 16 (Pace, Justice and Strong Institutions): Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Goal 17 (Parnerships for the Goals): Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015 are determined by 169 specific goals and 232 targets, aiming to eradicate poverty, protect the planet and ensure all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. In Vietnam, on May 10, 2017, the Prime Minister issued the National Action Plan to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, of which sets out 17 sustainable development goals with 115 specific goals. After that, Decision No.681/QD-TTg on the Roadmap for implementation of Vietnam’s sustainable development goals by 2030 issued on June 4, 2019. The most recent is the Resolution on sustainable development (Resolution No.136/NQ-CP) issued on September 25, 2020.

Sustainable development has become a global trend. Members of the United Nations, including Vietnam, have been actively integrating the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their socio-economic development strategies.

Throughout its development process, with task of the construction of irrigation and hydropower projects, C47 has been and is contributing an important part in the management, effective use and security assurance of water resources, and dam safety serve sustainable production and people’s lives. That is why Goal 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) is one of the important Sustainable Development Goals that C47 always strives towards. In addition to Goal 6, C47 is also working towards Goal 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), Goal 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and Goal 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).

That is the through direction of Board of Directors and Management Board of Construction Joint Stock Company 47 (HOSE: C47) since this year beginning to accelerate the construction progress for Nam Phak Hydropower Project, Lao PDR particularly and the on-going projects that being undertaken by C47 generally. At the weekly meetings, C47 leaders urge and direct the functional departments to regularly follow-up the project schedule and actively support and propose the appropriate solutions to the actual problems (if any) on the construction sites.

Nam Phak hydropower project is a professional construction project with high level of expertise, with complex topographic and geological features, but thanks to timely direction of C47 leaders, along with cohesion and unceasing efforts from the experienced engineers, skilled workers and enthusiastic workers team of Nam Phak construction site, and with new, modern and synchronous equipment line that accelerated the construction progress and completed more than 110% of the plan “The 120-day emulation campaign to complete the plan, target for the first 6 months of 2023 at Nam Phak Hydropower Project” was previously launched on February 1, 2023.

Up to date, completed the important project items such as the right abutment of Nam Phak Dam, the foundation excavation to the design elevation from chainage K0+400 to K0+940 and completed the upstream slope cutting work; the upstream side of dam left abutment completed the excavation work up to the permanent support EL.955.0m, the downstream side reached EL.959.6m and continuous excavation down to EL.939.6m, with volume of excavation and transportation of rock and soil is 1,502,300m³. Now, C47 focusing on construction of the remain volume of zone I (expected to be completed by June 20, 2023), slope cutting for remaining part of zone II and construction of zone III.

According to the 2023 production plan, C47 must focus on executing many projects such as: Phu Phong Weir PJT, Tan An – Dap Da Irrigation System PJT, Cat Tien – Diem Van Road PJT, Becamex VSIP Binh Dinh PJT (Binh Dinh province), Ta Hoet Reservoir PJT (Lam Dong province), Hoa Phat Dung Quat 2 Iron and Steel Production Complex PJT (Quang Ngai province), Hoa Binh Hydropower Expansion PJT (Hoa Binh province), Nam Phak Hydropower PJT (Lao PDR), etc. of which some of them are important projects contributing for water-resource security, energy security, serving economic – social development and daily life needs such as projects of Phu Phong Weir, Tan An Dap Da Irrigation System and Hoa Binh Hydropower Expansion, etc. The works progress and quality are the special concerns of the project owners. Grasping this importance, C47 always aims to ensure the project schedule and quality firstly, during the process of construction tasks, focusing on allocating human resources and equipment suitable for each project, always ensure to bring the project to the set-up target in advance or on schedule.