Vinh City is expected to have 3 commune-level administrative units.

Nghe An Department of Home Affairs has just issued Official Dispatch No. 857 dated March 21, 2025 to Vinh City People's Committee requesting to develop a plan to rearrange commune-level administrative units of Vinh City when implementing the 2-level local government model.

The document clearly states that the plan for arranging units must meet the standards prescribed in the draft Central Project. It notes that if the plan for arranging 5 or more commune-level administrative units does not meet the criteria, no additional mergers are required. Minimize the excessive mergers (much exceeding the standards prescribed by the Central Government) to facilitate management and service to the people and the arrangement of cadres and civil servants.

In case the new administrative unit is arranged with a scale larger than the criteria, it must be proven that it ensures the conditions of socio-economic infrastructure, especially information technology, digital transformation and the quality of the civil servant team.

The guidance document encourages the original status quo, minimizing the adjustment of part of one commune-level administrative unit to another to establish a new grassroots administrative unit. At the same time, it is necessary to study and coordinate with the People's Committees of adjacent districts to propose the original status quo arrangement of some commune-level units that have administrative boundary disputes, boundary line inadequacies, and travel distance difficulties for people.

Naming commune-level administrative units after the reorganization must be carefully and thoroughly researched, carefully considering traditional, historical and cultural factors. Priority should be given to using one name of the administrative units before the merger to name the new administrative unit to minimize the impact on people and businesses due to the need to convert documents. The name of the new administrative unit needs to be easy to identify, concise, easy to read, easy to remember and promote the comparative advantages of each locality, in line with the integration trend.

The document requests local Party committees and authorities to unify awareness and be responsible for creating consensus among local people; contributing to preserving and promoting historical, traditional, cultural values ​​and the spirit of solidarity of the people towards the administrative unit after the rearrangement.

Regarding determining the administrative-political center: Select the administrative-political center of one of the current commune-level administrative units as the administrative-political center of the new administrative unit to ensure that the local government at the commune level quickly goes into stable operation.

The administrative-political center of the new administrative unit has a favorable geographical location, synchronous economic-social infrastructure, especially the transportation system. The administrative-political center of the new administrative unit needs to have development space, in line with the economic-social development orientation of the new administrative unit, ensuring harmony, rationality, avoiding imbalance, in line with the general economic development trend of the locality and creating new development space. The local Party Committee and government have a unified awareness, are responsible for creating consensus among local people.

Based on the area scale, population and other conditions; based on the expected reduction rate of the Central Government after the rearrangement, Nghe An Department of Home Affairs proposed that Vinh City People's Committee develop a plan to reduce to 3 commune-level administrative units after the rearrangement.

Currently, Vinh city has 33 commune-level administrative units.