Building governments at all levels close to the people, meeting the requirements of modern social governance

On the morning of April 16, the Politburo and Secretariat held a national conference to disseminate and implement the Resolution of the 11th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee.

At the conference, comrade Le Minh Hung - Politburo member, Party Central Committee Secretary, Head of the Central Organization Commission delivered a presentation on continuing to reorganize the apparatus; amending and supplementing regulations implementing the Party Charter and directives and conclusions of the Politburo on Party congresses at all levels for the 2025 - 2030 term.

Regarding the arrangement of provincial and commune-level administrative units, Head of the Central Organization Committee Le Minh Hung said that in order to ensure the goal of arranging the apparatus of the political system to be streamlined, strong, effective, efficient and effective; to build governments at all levels close to the people, meeting the requirements of modern social governance, with the capacity to effectively organize and implement the Party's policies into practice, with a strategic vision, ensuring the formation and expansion of economic, cultural and social development space and ensuring national defense and security in the new situation, the Central Executive Committee has discussed, reviewed, carefully considered, and reached a high consensus on the principles and criteria for implementing the arrangement of provincial and commune-level administrative units.

The determination of names and locations of political centers of the following provinces is arranged according to criteria of natural area, population size, history, cultural traditions, ethnicity, geo-economics, geopolitics, national defense - security, foreign affairs; priority is given to merging administrative units located adjacent to mountainous and delta areas with coastal localities with the highest goal of expanding development space, meeting the orientation of rapid and sustainable development of the country in the new period.

The naming should be easily recognizable, concise, have traditional and cultural values ​​and be agreed and supported by the local people. Priority should be given to using one of the names of the administrative units before the merger to name the new administrative unit.

The political and administrative center of the new administrative unit needs to have a favorable geographical location, synchronous and convenient socio-economic infrastructure, connecting regions, in line with the socio-economic development orientation; consider choosing the political and administrative center of one of the current provinces as the new political and administrative center. After the new province has stabilized its operation, it is possible to study the planning and choose to build new political and administrative centers that are reasonable and suitable.

Head of the Central Organizing Committee Le Minh Hung stated that, based on the above viewpoints, principles and criteria, the Central Committee has highly agreed and approved policies and orientations such as: organizing local government at two levels: provincial level (including provinces and centrally run cities) and communal level (including communes, wards, and special zones under provinces and cities); the number of provincial-level administrative units after the merger is 34 provinces and cities, including 28 provinces and 6 centrally run cities.

The Central Government has agreed and agreed on the proposed names and political-administrative centers of provincial-level administrative units of 34 provinces and cities after the merger and consolidation; agreed to end the operations of district-level administrative units from July 1, 2025, after the amended 2013 Constitution and the Law on Organization of Local Government (amended) come into effect; merging commune-level administrative units ensures that the whole country reduces the number of commune-level administrative units by about 60-70% compared to the present.

The Central Committee and the Politburo held a meeting with the Standing Committees of the Provincial Party Committees, City Party Committees, and Party Committees directly under the Central Committee to focus on leadership, direction, and urgently develop a Project to rearrange provincial-level administrative units, not organize district-level units, and merge commune-level units according to the instructions of competent authorities.

In which, based on criteria and local reality, proactively research, develop plans, report to competent authorities to decide on the implementation of arrangement, name, location of commune headquarters, ensuring commune-level government is close to the people, reduces costs, and does not form a miniature district level.

Before August 15, 2025, provincial and municipal Party Committees directly under the Central Government must issue decisions to terminate the activities of Party Committees of districts, towns, and cities directly under the provinces and centrally run cities.

Issue decisions to establish Party committees of communes, wards, and special zones; decisions to appoint executive committees, standing committees, secretaries, deputy secretaries, members of inspection committees, chairmen, and deputy chairmen of inspection committees of Party committees of communes, wards, and special zones for the 2025-2030 term in sync with preparing personnel for People's Councils of communes, wards, and special zones for the 2026-2031 term.

Provincial and municipal Party Committees directly under the Central Government (not implementing the arrangement of provincial-level administrative units) need to lead and direct the arrangement of socio-political organizations and mass associations assigned by the Party and State to be under the provincial-level Vietnam Fatherland Front. Merge provincial-level radio and television agencies into the press agencies of provincial-level Party Committees. These tasks must be completed before July 31, 2025.

For provincial and municipal Party Committees directly under the Central Government, it is necessary to arrange administrative units for leadership and direction (after the arrangement). Before September 15, 2025, it is necessary to establish and decide on the functions, tasks, organizational structure, and staffing of specialized agencies to advise, assist, and public service units of provincial-level Party Committees.

Establish, decide on the functions, tasks, and organization of specialized agencies under the provincial People's Committee. Arrange socio-political organizations and mass associations assigned by the Party and State to be directly under the provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front.

Establish, decide on the functions, tasks, and organizational structure of the Vietnam Fatherland Front at the provincial level. Merge provincial radio and television stations and press agencies of the provincial Party Committee. Arrange the provincial inspectorate in accordance with the regulations of the competent authority and the Project to arrange the inspection agency system to be streamlined, strong, effective, efficient, and effective.

Arrange and organize cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers; arrange headquarters, equipment, and conditions to ensure service for the work of Party committees, authorities, the Fatherland Front, and functional agencies of the province and city.

Strengthening the organization and staff of party committees of party agencies, party committees of people's committees, military party committees, public security party committees, party committees directly under provincial and municipal party committees. Party congresses and grassroots party cells directly under party committees directly under provincial and municipal party committees (not communes, wards, or special zones).

Regarding the organization of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations and mass associations assigned by the Party and State, the Central Executive Committee agreed on the policy of arranging, streamlining and merging the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations and mass associations assigned by the Party and State at the central, provincial and communal levels; the arrangement and streamlining of the organizational apparatus must ensure close proximity to the grassroots and localities, taking care of the legitimate and legal rights and interests of the people and members of the organization.

The Central Executive Committee also agreed on the policy of ending the activities of civil servant unions and armed forces unions; reducing the level of union dues paid by union members; at the same time, the Politburo agreed on the policy of holding congresses of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations right after the Party congresses at all levels.