Structure of Party Committee members, Standing Committee members, Deputy Party Committee Secretaries and specific numbers?

Answer:According to Circular No. 13-TT/TU dated April 26, 2025 of the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee on Party congresses at all levels:

Party Committee structure

- Must ensure direct, comprehensive leadership of the Party Committee in important areas and fields; attach importance to quality, not lower standards for the sake of structure; implement the policy that it is not necessary for every locality, department, or branch to have people participating in the Party Committee; unify the positions with "rigid" structure to participate in the Standing Committee, the remaining positions are decided by the Party Committee according to the requirements of political tasks and the situation of the cadre team of the locality and unit.

- Personnel preparation needs to harmoniously combine local human resources with the mobilization and rotation of cadres from other places. Localities and units that have a Party Committee structure but have not yet prepared local personnel, the direct superior Party Committee shall consider and mobilize personnel from other places who meet the standards, conditions, and requirements of the political tasks of the locality or unit to introduce, appoint to join the Party Committee or supplement after the congress.

- Basically, arrange for the secretary (deputy secretary) of the Party Committee to also be the chairman of the People's Council at the provincial and communal levels.

- Each comrade in the standing committee of the provincial Party Committee basically does not hold more than 2 positions in the provincial leadership positions: Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Chairman of the People's Council, Chairman of the People's Committee, Head of the National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Fatherland Front; other cases are considered and decided by competent authorities.

- Strive to basically arrange for Party secretaries who are not local people in communes and wards and encourage implementation for other positions (For Provincial Party Secretary, implementation follows the direction of the Central Government).

- Assigning, arranging new work or introducing candidates for election in other localities, agencies and units for comrades who are secretaries of the Party Committee at the level directly above the grassroots level and equivalent or higher and have held the position for more than 2 consecutive terms (from 8 years or more) in a locality, agency or unit.

- Strive to achieve a rate of female Party Committee members of 15% or more and have female cadres in the Standing Committee; strive for a rate of young cadres (under 42 years old for provincial and communal levels) of 10% or more (calculated for the entire term); strive for a rate of cadres with scientific and technological qualifications of about 5%; the rate of Party Committee members who are ethnic minorities must be consistent with the characteristics, ethnic structure and specific conditions of each locality, agency and unit. Party Committees and heads of competent levels proactively develop specific plans to train, foster, rotate, mobilize, promote and arrange female cadres, young cadres, ethnic minority cadres, cadres with scientific and technological qualifications into positions with a structure to participate in the new Party Committee term according to regulations.

- Strive to renew at least 1/3 of the total number of Party Committee members during the term (not applicable to merged or consolidated Party Committees). Implement the three-age structure in Party Committees at all levels and strive to implement it in the Standing Committee and Standing Committee of the Party Committee.

- At the beginning of the term, places that have not elected enough members in terms of quantity, proportion, and structure of Party committees according to regulations must proactively prepare personnel during the term to complete and supplement according to regulations.

- The structure of the Party Committee, the proportion of young cadres, female cadres, ethnic minority cadres, cadres with scientific and technological qualifications participating in the Party Committee and the renewal of the Party Committee for the Party Committee of the armed forces shall be implemented according to the guidance of the Central Military Commission and the Central Public Security Party Committee. The structure of the Party Committee, the proportion of young cadres, female cadres, ethnic minority cadres, cadres with scientific and technological qualifications participating in the Party Committee and the renewal of the Party Committee for Party organizations in agencies, units, enterprises... shall be basically implemented as in the 2020-2025 term and shall be considered and decided by the Standing Committee of the Party Committee at the higher level.

Number of Party Committee members, Standing Committee members and Deputy Party Committee Secretaries

- The number of Party Committee members, Standing Committee members and Deputy Secretaries of Party Committees at all levels is specified in Appendix 3.

- Based on the standards, conditions and situation of the staff, the congress decides on the number of Party Committee members; the new Party Committee decides on the number of Standing Committee members and Deputy Secretaries of the Party Committee based on the regulations of the competent Party Committee.