Ministry of Home Affairs officially informs about information on continued merger of provinces and cities

Recently, on social networking sites, there has been false and inaccurate information about the country continuing to reorganize administrative units at all levels from 34 provinces and cities to 16 provinces and cities, causing confusion among many people, officials and civil servants.

Ministry of Home Affairs headquarters.

On November 21, the Ministry of Home Affairs sent a document to the Central Propaganda and Education Commission; the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; and central press agencies to officially inform about this issue.

According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, in recent times, our country has carried out a revolution in the arrangement and reorganization of administrative units at all levels. This major policy has been thoroughly studied and discussed in many aspects by the Party Central Committee, the National Assembly , and the Government, and reached high consensus before implementation.

The administrative unit arrangement in 2025 not only arranges the organization, apparatus, and staff but also decentralizes authority, rearranges administrative units, allocates resources, and creates space for development.

The goal is to build a government that is close to the people, serves the people better; at the same time, opens up a new situation in national development with a long-term vision, at least for the next 100 years.

With the drastic participation of the entire political system, from July 1, 2025, our country has 34 provinces and cities; 3,321 communes, wards, special zones and the 2-level local government model (including provincial and commune levels) has officially operated in all localities.

Currently, the Party Central Committee, the National Assembly and the Government do not have a policy to continue to reorganize and merge administrative units, but require the entire political system to continue to care for and create a two-level local government model that operates effectively and efficiently, serving the people better.

On June 16, 2025, the National Assembly passed the Law on Organization of Local Government No. 72/2025/QH15 with new regulations on the organization of two-level local governments. To implement this law, the Ministry of Home Affairs was assigned to develop and submit to competent authorities for promulgation of documents guiding the law, including the Resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee on standards of administrative units (replacing Resolution No. 1211/2016/UBTVQH13 dated May 25, 2016), the Government's Decree on classification of administrative units and the Decree guiding the collection of public opinions on the establishment, dissolution, merger, division, boundary adjustment and renaming of administrative units (replacing Decree No. 54/2018/ND-CP dated April 16, 2018).

The drafting of the above documents to implement new provisions of the law when organizing a 2-level local government model, promptly replaces the provisions in current legal documents on standards and criteria for classifying administrative units that are no longer suitable for the current situation of administrative units at all levels after the 2025 arrangement and the requirements of national development, improving the effectiveness of modern government administration, serving the people; not for the purpose of continuing to arrange and merge administrative units at all levels as false information has spread on social networks recently.

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