Detailed regulations on district and commune-level administrative units subject to rearrangement in the 2023-2030 period

The draft Resolution of the Government submitted to the National Assembly Standing Committee clearly stipulates the administrative units at district and commune levels subject to rearrangement in the 2023-2030 period.

District and commune-level administrative units subject to rearrangement in the 2023-2025 period include places with both natural area and population size below 70% of the prescribed standards.

Cua Lo coastal town will be merged into Vinh city. Illustration photo: Thanh Cuong

According to calculations by the Ministry of Home Affairs, currently the whole country has 52 district-level administrative units (accounting for 7.38%) and 1,037 commune-level administrative units (accounting for 9.78%) with both population and natural area standards less than 70%, subject to merger in the next 3 years.

Also during this period, district-level administrative units with natural area below 20% and population size below 200% of prescribed standards must also be reorganized.

Commune-level administrative units with a natural area of ​​less than 20% and a population size of less than 300% of the prescribed standards are also subject to merger.

District and commune-level administrative units subject to reorganization in the 2026-2030 period include districts and communes with both natural area and population size below 100% of prescribed standards.

District-level administrative units with natural area under 30% and population size under 200% of prescribed standards; commune-level administrative units with natural area under 30% and population size under 300% of prescribed standards are also subject to merger in the 2026-2030 period.

In addition, the Government also encourages the rearrangement of administrative units not subject to the above-mentioned rearrangement to reduce the number of units, increase the scale, streamline the organizational apparatus, reduce staff, and facilitate state management and people's lives.

According to Resolution No. 1211/2016 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly regulating the standards of administrative units and classification of administrative units, a number of articles have been amended and supplemented according to Resolution No. 27/2022:

- Mountainous and highland districts:Must have an area of ​​850km2 and a population of 80,000 or more people

- Remaining districts:Must have an area of ​​450km2 and 120,000 people or more.

- City belonging to a province, city belonging to a city: Must have an area of ​​150km2 and a population of 150,000 people or more

- Town: Must have an area of ​​200km2 and a population of 100,000 people or more

- District: Must have an area of ​​35km2 and a population of 150,000 people or more.

- Mountainous and highland communes: Must have an area of ​​50km2 and 5,000 people or more.

- The remaining communes: Must have an area of ​​30km2 and 8,000 people or more.

- Ward: Must have a natural area of ​​5.5km2 or more, and have at least 15,000 people for wards in districts, and at least 5,000 people for wards in towns.

- Town: Must have an area of ​​14km2 and a population of 8,000 or more.