The basic two-level administrative apparatus ensures smooth and stable operation.

Notably last week, the Politburo and the Secretariat issued Conclusion No. 177-KL/TW (July 11, 2025) on continuing to build the organization and operation of two-level administrative units to ensure smoothness and efficiency.

In Conclusion No. 177, the Politburo and the Secretariat acknowledged and highly appreciated relevant agencies and localities for actively and diligently completing assigned tasks and contents; closely coordinating, regularly updating the situation, overcoming difficulties, promptly handling arising problems so that the apparatus of 2-level administrative units basically ensures smooth and stable operation from July 1, 2025 to present.

One of the contents stated in the above Conclusion is that Party committees and organizations directly under the Central Committee, ministries and branches continue to review and perfect the legal system in accordance with the new model; strengthen policy communication, create consensus and participation of the people; maintain and improve the level of people's satisfaction, using satisfaction as a measure.

To solve the immediate difficulties, the Politburo and the Secretariat allow the deployment and arrangement of cadres with capacity, experience, and ability to meet the job requirements but still lacking the standards of theoretical qualifications and planned positions to appoint them to participate in the executive committee, standing committee, secretary, deputy secretary, chairman, vice chairman of the People's Council, chairman, vice chairman of the People's Committee at the commune level to ensure sufficient approved numbers.

2025 is the final year of implementing three national target programs for the 2021-2025 period on new rural construction, sustainable poverty reduction, and socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

During the week, in Document 6352/VPCP-KTTH dated July 9, 2025, Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc requested competent authorities to promptly issue guiding documents on the management and implementation of national target programs in sync with the two-level local government organization model.

Ministries, central and local agencies shall proactively review, promptly issue or submit to competent authorities for issuance legal documents and guidance documents on management and implementation of national target programs in line with the arrangement of administrative units at all levels and the construction of a two-level local government organization model; promptly train and guide relevant organizations and individuals to implement the Government's Decrees on decentralization, delegation of authority, and assignment of authority of local governments and related documents to ensure that the organization and implementation of national target programs are not interrupted.

According to information on the implementation results of Resolution 18-NQ/TW at the Conference of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front on the morning of July 9, the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front issued 22 Decisions to establish the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committees of 22 provinces and cities (after rearrangement and consolidation). Regarding the position of Chairman: there are 33/34 Chairmen (vacancy in Quang Tri province); 34/34 provinces and cities have completed the arrangement of advisory and support agencies of the provincial-level Vietnam Fatherland Front Committees...

Enhance the responsibility of cadres, civil servants and public employees

During the week, in localities, many working groups led by provincial and municipal leaders came to survey the operation of the commune-level political system. After 10 days of operating under the 2-level local government model, 166 communes and wards in Thanh Hoa province have organized drastic, methodical, and synchronous implementation and initially achieved very positive results.

That was the assessment of Thanh Hoa Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Doan Anh at the province-wide online conference to review and evaluate the performance of communes, wards and organizations on the afternoon of July 10.

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Doan Anh and provincial leaders listened to and learned about difficulties and problems after 10 days of new communes and wards coming into operation, such as arranging cadres and civil servants in mountainous communes to work far away; implementing administrative procedures for people at the commune-level public administration service center; publicizing procedures for handling administrative records... to have directions for handling.

Through a direct survey at the Public Administration Service Center of Dong Hung Thuan Ward (Ho Chi Minh City), Head of the City National Assembly Delegation Nguyen Van Loi said that the service area here is not large enough, so the ward government needs to study expanding the Center's workplace, even studying reducing the working area of ​​ward leaders with the goal of using and exploiting all resources for the Center to ensure better service to the people.

The leaders of the City’s National Assembly Delegation believe that it is necessary to pay attention to investing resources, ensuring adequate equipment and facilities, and if necessary, adding both full-time and part-time staff to the Public Administration Service Center. At the same time, staff working at the Center must always put themselves in the position of the people to understand the difficulties and shortcomings of the people in order to solve them, and recommend that competent authorities change policies accordingly.

During the week, many National Assembly delegations met with voters after the 9th Session of the 15th National Assembly. Voters in Long Duc Ward (Vinh Long Province) expressed their excitement and support for the Party and State's policy of streamlining the apparatus towards simplicity and efficiency. Voters said that this is the right step, demonstrating a strong determination to innovate in the work of organizing the apparatus, meeting practical requirements in the current period.

Voters and people expect the rearrangement process to be carried out in a synchronous and transparent manner, associated with improving the quality of cadres and civil servants. At the same time, policies and regimes to support cadres, civil servants and public employees in their new workplaces should be issued soon so that they can soon stabilize their lives; and redundant offices after the rearrangement in the area should be quickly handled to avoid waste...

In Quang Ninh, voters suggested that when implementing the two-level local government model, it is necessary to increase resources, organize training to improve capacity for grassroots staff; invest in facilities and technological equipment to serve the operation and management work to ensure efficiency and avoid overloading at the commune level.

It can be seen that cadres and cadre work have a particularly important position and role, which is decisive for the success or failure of the revolution. In order to continue to innovate and improve the quality of cadre assessment work, ensuring that it is increasingly substantive and linked to specific work results and products, on May 30, 2025, the Central Organizing Committee issued an Official Dispatch on piloting the weekly assessment of work results for cadres, civil servants and workers, starting from June 1, 2025.

After 1 month of pilot implementation, basically, the units under the Central Organizing Committee have initially clearly recognized the requirements, purposes and importance of piloting the assessment of weekly work results. The pilot implementation of weekly work results assessment associated with specific daily work results and products has initially created positive changes; created motivation, encouragement, promoted working spirit, enhanced responsibility of each cadre and civil servant; contributed to improving work efficiency, building strong agencies and units.

Weekly work results are the basis for evaluating and classifying cadres, civil servants and employees monthly, quarterly, 6 months and at the end of the year; contributing to the arrangement, restructuring and improvement of the quality of cadres and civil servants in the Board associated with the construction of job positions, ensuring leanness, compactness, strength, efficiency, effectiveness and efficiency.

In order to enhance the responsibility of performing public duties, Chairman of the People's Committee of Da Nang City Luong Nguyen Minh Triet has just signed and issued a Directive on rectifying discipline and administrative order in the city. The People's Committee of Da Nang City requested to review and adjust working regulations and assign tasks according to the 6 clear principles: "clear people, clear work, clear results, clear authority, clear progress, clear responsibility" in performing public duties and in accordance with the capacity and strengths of each cadre, civil servant, and public employee corresponding to the job position, improving service quality.

The Department of Home Affairs advises and submits to the City People's Committee to complete regulations on assessing the level of task completion of each job position to ensure objectivity, fairness, publicity, and transparency in the form of calculating KPI for each cadre, civil servant, and public employee...

According to the reporter in Tuyen Quang province, the reality shows that the new commune-level model in the province has initially brought into play practical effectiveness, being close to the people and closely following reality, creating an important premise for building a service-oriented, democratic, modern and effective administration. In the coming time, the synchronous application of information technology solutions, digital transformation, standardization of officials and enhancement of transparency and supervision by the people are the keys to effectively operating the new commune-level government model.

Accompanying the government and people

On July 7, in Hanoi, the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union launched nationwide youth volunteer teams to support the operation of two-level local governments and provide online public services at the grassroots level. This is a key activity to accompany the government and people nationwide in the context of restructuring commune-level administrative units according to the two-level model.

The nationwide program to launch youth volunteer teams to support the operation of two-level local governments and provide online public services at the grassroots level will take place over two months (from July to the end of August 2025).

According to a reporter in Ha Tinh province on July 7, more than 1,000 union members and youths from teams across the province were present at public administrative transaction points at the commune and ward levels to directly support people in carrying out procedures on the National Public Service Portal, providing instructions on installing and using the VNeID application, exploiting digital personal information, submitting online applications, performing electronic identification authentication, etc.

Promoting the pioneering role, union members and youth in Da Nang city are always ready to be present in localities to support people and officials in the process of receiving and using online and direct public services since the two-level local government came into operation. Union members and local youth have helped people, especially those who do not understand technology, to easily carry out administrative procedures, reducing pressure on the grassroots.

Mr. Ngo Sang, Thanh Khe Ward, Da Nang, said that the enthusiastic support of many union members helped him more conveniently complete administrative procedures from getting a queue number, looking up file codes, and downloading applications to his phone. Even the declaration of personal information was enthusiastically supported by the union members...

According to Secretary of the Central Youth Union, President of the Vietnam Student Association Nguyen Minh Triet: "In the context of the country entering a new era of development, young people need to clearly recognize their special roles and responsibilities. Each member and young person is not only a simple technical support force, but also a person who spreads the spirit of innovation, bringing digital thinking and digital action to each community."

In Conclusion No. 177-KL/TW issued on July 11, the Politburo and the Secretariat assigned the Party Committee of the Fatherland Front and central mass organizations to continue directing the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union to maintain volunteer activities to send students to communes, wards, and special zones to support information technology and carry out digital transformation./.