Discussion: What should the administrative levels be called?

According to current documents, these two levels are called provinces and centrally run cities, and at the grassroots level they are called wards, communes or special zones. Of course, this will be very strange to the reality we have been used to for many years, but to adapt to the situation, to develop, we must gradually get used to great changes, even revolutionary. Thereorganize administrative apparatus at all levelswithin the overarching idea of ​​innovating and perfecting the political system, it is not only related to the structure of local government, scale, and boundaries, but also has a strong impact on many other issues besides personnel work and leadership structure such as: planning issues, economic - cultural - social development plans, the implementation of tasks to ensure national defense - security, the relationship between political institutions, it aims to achieve efficiency in the operation and direction of the administrative apparatus, but at the same time must also ensure the mechanism of monitoring and controlling social power...

There have been a lot of opinions surrounding this in recent days.the issue of abolishing district leveland naming the administrative levels as mentioned above, how will the issues related to the system of "provincial city", "provincial town", "city directly under the city" and "town" (which will no longer exist in the future) be handled? There are even opinions to abolish the "commune" level and consider the "district" level as the basis (for example, in Vinh city, it is only necessary to abolish wards and communes and keep "Vinh city")... For example: In the plans and planning for socio-economic development, every locality has urban development targets under the names: city, town and township. Of course, we understand that a ward is also an urban administrative unit and the urban quality of a city or town cannot be more dense than a ward because in a city or town there can be a commune. However, the population and area of ​​a ward cannot be equal to that of a city, town or district, which are currently its superior levels. In theory, urban development is one of the measures of social development, and urban here is being embodied in the institutions of cities and towns. Now, the implementation of the goals of urbanization and development of cities and towns in the current documents at the ward level will have many initial difficulties. If not suitable, it will reduce the speed of local development and lose the role of urban driving force.

In the world, there are many models of grassroots government organizations called cities, towns, villages, even regions... and people are very flexible in defining the functions, powers, and tasks of these institutions. For example, in the US, in terms of hierarchy, they are equal because they are all grassroots administrative levels, however, their duties and powers are not completely the same, the difference not only exists between cities and villages, but even between cities with the same name may not be the same. With the upcoming name "ward", it seems that everything will be homogenized.

I think we should consult and research to design in a way that is suitable for our current level of management and social development in order to have the best solution. The writer, although his understanding is still limited, is quite satisfied with the model similar to that in some countries with 3 levels from the Central level with a clear differentiation at the last level, of course it must be Vietnamized. Specifically, our administrative levels will be as follows:

- Central;

- Provinces and centrally-run cities;

- Cities, towns, communes, wards (only in centrally-run cities) and special zones. This is the basic level, the lowest level of the administrative system.

According to this model, the State also classifies cities and towns into different levels (as we currently have criteria for classifying urban areas).

For each type of city or town, there will be different regulations on State management authority, and for cities and towns that are not fully assigned all State management tasks, this area will be performed by the provincial level.

The name is not simply to distinguish, to identify the hierarchical order of a conventional entity, but it must also be designed to suit the nature, the current development, the historical tradition, the national culture, and must also include the expression of expectations for its role and position. Therefore, it needs to be thoroughly researched and highly convincing.