Conference of the Steering Committee on the arrangement of administrative units and agencies of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations, and mass organizations

Comrades Hoang Duy Chinh, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Nguyen Dang Binh, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee co-chaired the conference. Attending were members of the Steering Committee, the Working Group on the arrangement of administrative units (DVHC) and the organization of the provincial apparatus.

Conference scene.

The conference listened to the professional agencies present 02 proposed plans to rearrange commune-level administrative units (according to Conclusion No. 137-KL/TW dated March 28, 2025, reducing about 50% compared to the total number of administrative units before the rearrangement). Specifically, the two plans to rearrange commune and ward-level administrative units mentioned at the Conference are both based on the general orientation as follows:

For mountainous and highland communes with a large ethnic minority population: Area from ^100km2 or more; population size from 5,000 people or more.

For mountainous and highland wards: Area from ^15km2 or more; population from 21,000 people or more.

Criteria for determining the plan: History, tradition, culture, ethnicity, religion, beliefs, customs and practices; geographical location, geographical and natural conditions, sub-regional and provincial connectivity; Scale and level of economic development; National defense, political security, social order; Transport infrastructure and information technology.

In case of arranging 3 or more commune-level administrative units, it is not necessary to meet area and population standards.

Comrade Hoang Duy Chinh, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation delivered a concluding speech at the Conference.

Concluding the conference, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Hoang Duy Chinh suggested continuing to do a good job of propaganda and stabilizing the ideology of cadres in localities that will be reorganized and merged this time. He emphasized: The work of reorganizing administrative units needs to ensure progress, publicity, democracy, transparency, and create high consensus. Members of the Steering Committee and localities closely follow and update the latest criteria to make reasonable adjustments and supplements to ensure compliance with Central regulations. In the general spirit, the district and commune levels will complete the arrangement and start operating from July 1, 2025, and the provincial level before August 31, 2025.

The Provincial Party Secretary requested members of the Steering Committee, Secretaries of District and City Party Committees to proactively develop administrative unit plans for commune level; continue to thoroughly educate cadres, civil servants and public employees to carefully study the regulations of the Central Government, and at the same time direct the review and implementation of policies for cadres in accordance with regulations.../.

Dang Bach

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