Perfecting Traffic Network

With better economic and social development achievements, the transport system of Kon Tum province has also been invested for modernisation and synchronisation. The traffic development facilitates the circulation of goods and improves the living standard of ethnic minorities in the province.

 

Kon Tum province now has a total road length of 4,000 km, of which over 770 km is hard surface, nearly 630 km is cemented and near 660 km is asphalted. Specially, all communes have roads serving automobiles to their administrative centres.

 

Because of limited local budgets, Kon Tum advocates the policy that encourages the public to join forces with the State to develop the traffic system. To expand roads, localities mobilise the people to give up their affected land and join the temporary construction force to repair and concrete roads and alleys. By doing this, in the past years, the province receives a vast area of land and many days of labour from the people for road construction. The investment in rural roads like Ngoc Hoang - Mang But - Tu Mo Rong - Ngoc Linh Route; Ya Tang Road to National Road 14C; Dak Choong - Xa Mat Inter-commune Road; Dak Long - Dak Nhoong - Dak Blo Inter-commune Road; Kon Dao - Ngoc Tu - Dak Ro Nga Inter-commune Road; a road from the centre of Tu Mo Rong district to its four western communes; a road to the centre of Dak Ang commune; a road to the centre of Van Lem commune; Provincial Roads 673 (Dak Ta - Ngoc Linh), 672, 675, 671, 678 and 674 has shortened the distance between urban and rural areas and thus given a new facelift to the province.

 

To step up traffic network development, Kon Tum province has built road development plans for the periods from 2006 to 2010 and from 2011 to 2020 with the guiding philosophy of “Making the most use of available resources, including local resources, domestic resources, and international resources". By 2015, the province targets to ensure smooth traffic movement to administrative centres of communes in both rainy and dry seasons. The province is focusing investment on the construction of roads into far-lying and border areas to promote economic development. Kon Tum is currently pacing up the completion of Nam Quang Nam Road, border patrol routes, Truong Son Dong Road, Dak Coi - Dak Pxi, Sa Thay - Yaly - An Tam (Sa Son commune) - YaMo - Lang Re (Sa Thay district) route linked to Provincial Road 674, Provincial Road 672 (running through Tu Mo Rong), and the road running Tu Mo Rong district to four western communes.

 

In the past 20 years, the transport system in Kon Tum province has been significantly developed. Better traffic systems help shorten transport times between Kon Tum and other provinces and cities in the country, serve the industrialisation and modernisation process, and create huge advantages for the province in the integration period.