Research and propose to merge and terminate the operations of a number of ministries and ministerial-level agencies.

On the morning of December 1, the Politburo and the Party Central Committee Secretariat held a national conference to disseminate and summarize the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW of the 12th Party Central Committee; Report on the socio-economic situation in 2024; Solutions to accelerate socio-economic development in 2025; Remove institutional bottlenecks and bottlenecks.

At Dien Hong Hall, National Assembly House, comrades: To Lam - General Secretary; Luong Cuong - Politburo member, President; Pham Minh Chinh - Politburo member, Prime Minister; Tran Thanh Man - Politburo member, Chairman of the National Assembly; Tran Cam Tu - Politburo member, Standing member of the Party Central Committee Secretariat, Head of the Central Inspection Commission attended and directed the Conference.

At Nghe An province, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the conference. Attending the conference were comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; comrades in the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Provincial Party Executive Committee...

At the conference, Head of the Central Organizing Committee Le Minh Hung presented the main and key contents of the summary of the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW. Accordingly, the Politburo decided to establish a Steering Committee to summarize the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW consisting of 29 members, headed by General Secretary To Lam.

The Politburo determined that summarizing the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW and arranging and perfecting the organization of the political system to be streamlined and operate effectively and efficiently is an especially important task, a revolution in streamlining the organization of the political system, requiring a high level of unity in awareness and action throughout the Party and the entire political system.

For Party committees and organizations:Study the end of the activities of the Party Committee of the Central Agencies; establish the Party Committee of the Central Party Agencies and Judicial Agencies directly under the Central Government, including Party organizations in the Party committees, agencies and units of the Party at the Central Government, the Supreme People's Procuracy, the Supreme People's Court; have a specialized agency to advise and assist located at the Central Party Office;

Research on ending the activities of the Party Committee of the Central Enterprise Bloc: transferring Party organizations in corporations, general companies, and State-owned commercial banks to be directly under the Government Party Committee and the Party Committees of some specialized ministries (depending on the scale and importance of the enterprise Party Committee);

Research and propose to end the activities of the Government Party Committee, establish a Government Party Committee directly under the Central Committee, including Party organizations in ministries, ministerial-level agencies, agencies directly under the Government and a number of Party Committees in corporations, general companies, State-owned commercial banks; have a specialized agency to advise and assist located at the Government agency...;

Research and propose to end the activities of the National Assembly Party Delegation, establish a National Assembly Party Committee directly under the Central Committee, including Party organizations in agencies under the National Assembly, State Audit, and Office of the President; have a specialized agency to advise and assist located at the National Assembly agency.

Research and propose to end the activities of the Party Delegation of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Party Delegations of socio-political organizations and mass associations assigned by the Party and State, and establish the Party Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front directly under the Central Committee.

End the activities of the Party Executive Committee, establish the State Audit Party Committee under the National Assembly Party Committee (similar to the Party Committees of ministries and ministerial-level agencies).

Thus, implementing this plan will at least reduce 4 Party agencies directly under the Central Committee; reduce 25 Party executive committees; reduce 16 Party delegations directly under the Central Committee; and increase 2 Party committees directly under the Central Committee.

For ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and agencies under the Government:Research and propose merging and terminating the operations of a number of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and agencies directly under the Government in the following directions: merging the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance; merging the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Construction; merging the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Ministry of Science and Technology to perform the tasks of state management of science and technology, digital transformation, etc.; transferring a number of other tasks to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ministry of Education and Training, and related agencies.

Merge the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to perform State management tasks on agriculture, natural resources and environment...; transfer some other tasks to relevant ministries and agencies.

End the operation of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, transfer tasks to: Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Education and Training, Ethnic Committee, and relevant agencies.

End the operation of the State Capital Management Committee at enterprises, transfer tasks to: Ministry of Finance, specialized ministries and relevant agencies.

End the operation of the Vietnam National Financial Supervision Committee; transfer the tasks to the Ministry of Finance, the State Bank and relevant agencies. Transfer the Government Committee for Religious Affairs to the Ethnic Committee, establish the Ethnic and Religious Committee.

Research and propose the arrangement of 2 Academies of Sciences and 2 National Universities, ensuring efficiency and promoting research and training tasks. Research and arrange the National Academy of Public Administration in the direction of merging into the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics.

Research and propose to end the model of general departments under ministries, first of all, to rearrange units such as the State Treasury, General Department of Taxation, General Department of Customs, Vietnam Social Security, General Department of Civil Judgment Enforcement, General Department of Market Management, State Bank branches in provinces and cities...; continue to review and rearrange the organizational model of a number of internal units of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and agencies under the Government in the direction of streamlining, effective and efficient operations.

Research on ending the operations of News Agency Television, VOV Television, VTC Television, and transferring related functions and tasks to Vietnam Television Station.

Continue to research and reorganize the press agencies of ministries and branches. Review all activities of steering committees in the direction of ending their activities, only retaining steering committees with necessary functions and tasks.

Implementing this plan will reduce at least 5 ministries and 2 agencies under the Government.

For the agencies of the National Assembly and the Standing Committee of the National Assembly:Research and propose merging and terminating the operations of a number of agencies of the National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee in the following directions: merging the Economic Committee and the Finance - Budget Committee; merging the Social Committee and the Culture - Education Committee; merging the Judiciary Committee and the Law Committee.

End the activities of the Foreign Affairs Committee, transfer the tasks to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Committees of the National Assembly and the Office of the National Assembly.

Research on converting the Petition Committee into the Supervisory and Petition Committee. Research on streamlining the model of the Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General and the National Assembly Secretariat; research on transferring specialized departments of the National Assembly Office to be directly under the National Assembly Committees and departments of the National Assembly Standing Committee.

End the operation of the Institute for Legislative Studies, transfer its functions and tasks to relevant agencies of the National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee. Study the end of the operation of National Assembly Television, transfer its related functions and tasks to Vietnam Television; the National Assembly is responsible for leading and directing the arrangement and streamlining of the apparatus and staff.

There are no permanent members or full-time members assigned to the Council of Nationalities and the National Assembly Committees; the National Assembly Committees have a chairperson, vice chairperson, and full-time National Assembly deputies.

Implementing this plan, reduce 4 National Assembly Committees and 1 agency under the National Assembly Standing Committee.