Fearing difficulty in enforcement, localities want to "return" power to the Ministry of Science and Technology

The conference was organized in both in-person and online formats, connecting to the Departments of Science and Technology, communes, wards, and special zones of 34 provinces and cities across the country.

In his opening speech, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Bui The Duy emphasized that the training course aims to implement the policy of the Party, Government and Prime Minister on maximum decentralization and delegation of power, bringing public services closer to the people, contributing to streamlining the apparatus and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of state management.

Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Bui The Duy spoke at the conference.

The Deputy Minister stated: The consistent guiding spirit is that what is under the Prime Minister's authority will be decentralized to the Ministries; the Ministry's authority will be decentralized to the People's Committees and Departments; there are even contents that are directly assigned to the commune level for implementation.

According to the Deputy Minister, the process of restructuring the apparatus and merging management agencies in some localities has significantly expanded the scope of work of the Departments. Many directors, deputy directors and professional staff have to take on new fields, requiring time to adapt and develop their skills. The expansion of the scope of decentralization also poses a great challenge to the capacity of staff, especially at the commune level, when many new contents are assigned while practical experience is limited.

The Ministry of Science and Technology has issued a set of documents guiding localities (sent to localities in September 2025) to perform decentralized tasks, delegated powers, assigned authority and other tasks in areas under the state management authority of the Ministry of Science and Technology, including: 13 items and instructions for 146 tasks.

Faced with that reality, the Ministry of Science and Technology has compiled a set of nearly 300 pages of guidance documents, in which each administrative procedure, each content of decentralization and delegation of authority has a concise, easy-to-reference guide, which is considered a "professional handbook" for staff at the grassroots level. The Ministry has also organized intensive training conferences lasting many days for leaders of Departments of Science and Technology across the country, and at the same time sent staff of the Departments and Divisions directly to localities to guide practice and handle actual documents.

The Deputy Minister affirmed: The Ministry of Science and Technology is determined to ensure by all means that by 2025, officials at the Department and commune levels can fully implement the decentralized and delegated contents.

The dispatch of officials from the Departments and Divisions to the localities has two main objectives. The first is to assess the capacity and working conditions at the Departments and communes, to examine whether the data system, tools, and professional documents meet the requirements for handling records like at the Ministry. The second is to directly guide local officials to "try and learn" to quickly master the professional process.

Deputy Minister Bui The Duy said that the Ministry of Science and Technology will maintain a regular support mechanism and assign Departments and Divisions to organize monthly and quarterly online conferences to address difficulties and problems in the process of implementing decentralization and delegation of power.

“Comrades, department heads and division heads need to treat local cadres who are being trained as new employees – they need to be guided until they are proficient in their work. We must work closely with the locality, only discuss how to do things, not discuss backtracking,” the Deputy Minister emphasized.

Through the synthesis, some localities are still concerned about the ability to implement, even wanting to "return" the power to the Ministry. However, the spirit of the Ministry of Science and Technology is to accompany and support to the end, so that localities can perform well the assigned tasks, aiming at the highest goal of serving the people better, reducing time and costs of administrative procedures.

The training conference took place all day on November 13. In the morning, delegates listened to an overview report on decentralization and delegation of authority in areas under the management authority of the Ministry of Science and Technology, including: quality measurement standards, intellectual property, nuclear radiation safety, radio frequencies, post and telecommunications. In the afternoon, the conference spent time exchanging, discussing and answering specific issues arising at the grassroots level, helping officials at all levels grasp the process and be ready to implement it in practice.

From August 12 to August 29, 2025, the Ministry of Science and Technology established 12 working delegations with 34 provinces and centrally run cities, including:
Directly work with the People's Committees of 34 provinces and cities and the Departments of Science and Technology
Work directly with 34 Public Administration Service Centers
Directly working with 39 communes and wards in localities
Thereby, it has resolved difficulties and problems of localities when implementing newly decentralized tasks and has a plan to amend and supplement legal documents on decentralization and delegation of power.

Thu Huong

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