The Politburo directed the study of merging some provinces.

Urban and administrative center in Bac Ninh province, the smallest province in Vietnam (illustrative photo)

Standing member of the Secretariat Tran Cam Tu has just signed and issued a conclusion on a number of contents and tasks to continue to arrange and streamline the organization of the political system in 2025, on behalf of the Politburo and the Secretariat.

To continue to arrange and perfect the organization and apparatus of the political system in 2025 and the 2025-2030 term, the Politburo and the Secretariat assigned the Government Party Committee to preside over and coordinate with the Central Organization Committee, the National Assembly Party Committee, and relevant Party committees and organizations to study the orientation to continue to arrange and eliminate the intermediate administrative level (district level).

Develop a plan to continue to reorganize the commune level in accordance with the new organizational model, propose the organization, functions, tasks, powers and responsibilities of the commune level.

Orientation to merge some provincial-level administrative units; propose policies to amend and supplement relevant legal regulations and Party regulations, and report to the Politburo in the third quarter of 2025.

Vietnam currently has 63 provincial-level administrative units, including 57 provinces and 6 centrally-run cities; 705 districts; 10,595 communes. According to regulations of the National Assembly Standing Committee, provinces must ensure 3 criteria including population size, area, and number of district-level administrative units.

Mountainous and highland provinces must have a population of 900,000 and an area of ​​8,000 km2; provinces in other areas must have a population of 1.4 million and an area of ​​5,000 km2. At the same time, the province must have 9 district-level administrative units, including at least one city or one town. District and commune-level administrative units also have standards on population and area.

According to the conclusion on February 14, the Politburo and the Secretariat assigned the Government Party Committee to direct the reorganization of party organizations in corporations, general companies, and state-owned commercial banks in the direction of transferring grassroots party committees (enterprises) under the party committees of corporations and general companies to be directly under local party committees according to the production and business areas. This task will be reported to the Secretariat by the end of the second quarter of 2025. The project to reorganize the inspection system also needs to be completed soon.

Research on abolishing district-level courts and prosecutors

The Party Committees of the Central Party agencies are requested to direct the Party Committees of the Supreme People's Court and the Party Committees of the Supreme People's Procuracy to study the model of abolishing the People's Court and the People's Procuracy of districts. The agencies will also propose amendments and supplements to Party policies and State laws related to this issue. These tasks will be reported to the Politburo in the second quarter of 2025.

Last week, during a discussion at the National Assembly, Head of the Central Organizing Committee Le Minh Hung said that this year, the activities of the People's Court and the People's Procuracy at the district level will be reorganized to suit the situation when there is no longer a police force at this level.

The Vietnamese People's Court system is currently divided into four levels, including the Supreme People's Court; High People's Court; People's Courts of provinces and centrally run cities; People's Courts of districts, towns, and provincial cities. Military courts at all levels include the Central Military Court; Military Courts of military regions and equivalent; and Regional Military Courts.

The system of People's Procuracies includes the Supreme People's Procuracy; High-level People's Procuracies; People's Procuracies of provinces and centrally-run cities; People's Procuracies of districts, towns, provincial cities and equivalent. In parallel, there are also Military Procuracies at all levels including the Central Military Procuracy; Military Procuracies of military regions and equivalent; Regional Military Procuracies.

Orientation to merge radio and television stations into provincial newspapers

According to the conclusion, the Politburo and the Secretariat assigned the Central Public Security Party Committee to preside over the implementation of the project to organize three-level public security, not to organize district-level public security to ensure the set schedule.

The Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission is in charge of researching the orientation of merging provincial radio and television agencies into newspapers of provincial and municipal party committees.

The Central Military Commission shall preside over research on orientations for continuing to reorganize the military organization (including the organization of district-level military agencies); propose additional relevant mechanisms and policies; and report to the Politburo in the third quarter of 2025.

The Party Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and central mass organizations directed a general review of the functions, tasks, and organizational structure of affiliated agencies and organizations, especially press agencies, in the direction of maximally streamlining, maintaining only truly necessary units. These agencies also studied the rearrangement of socio-political organizations and mass associations assigned by the Party and State to be directly under the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

The Central Organizing Committee advises the Central Steering Committee on staffing management to direct a general review of the actual staffing needs after rearranging the organizational apparatus in conjunction with assessing the capacity of cadres, new functions and tasks, and reviewing and perfecting job positions; reporting to the Politburo on the plan for assigning, managing, allocating and arranging staffing of the political system for the period 2026 - 2031 by the end of the second quarter of 2025.

PV (synthesis)

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