(NLDO) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that the vast majority of opinions and public opinion highly agree with the policy of rearranging and reorganizing administrative units at all levels.
On the afternoon of March 11, Politburo member, Secretary of the Government Party Committee, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a meeting of the Government Party Committee Standing Committee, giving opinions on the Project to rearrange and reorganize administrative units at all levels and build a two-level local government, completing one more step of the Project to submit to competent authorities.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the meeting. Photo: Nhat Bac
Implementing the direction of the Politburo in Conclusions No. 126 dated February 14, 2025 and Conclusion No. 127 dated February 28, 2025, the Standing Committee of the Government Party Committee has developed and submitted to the Politburo for comments a Project on administrative reorganization at all levels and the construction of a 2-level local government organization model.
Based on the opinion of the Politburo, the Standing Committee of the Government Party Committee met to further complete the Project on administrative reorganization at all levels and build a model of organizing two-level local government to report to the Politburo.
Delegates at the meeting discussed some contents of the Project such as criteria for arranging and reorganizing administrative units; plans and orientations for arranging and merging administrative units.
The contents of the proposed name, the plan to choose the location of the political and administrative center of the newly established administrative unit; the plan to build a 2-level local government... were also discussed and commented by the delegates.
Concluding the meeting, Party Secretary and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that the majority of opinions and public opinion highly agreed with the policy of rearranging and reorganizing administrative units at all levels and building a two-level local government. This is to adapt to the new situation and current management capacity when traffic infrastructure and digital infrastructure conditions have been greatly improved.
At the same time, the arrangement and reorganization of administrative units at all levels will create new development space, maximizing the potential differences, outstanding opportunities, and competitive advantages of each locality.
According to the Prime Minister, the two-level local government model includes the provincial level (including provinces and centrally-run cities) and the grassroots level. The meeting agreed to submit to the competent authority a plan after the reorganization that will reduce about 50% of the number of provincial-level administrative units and about 60-70% of grassroots-level administrative units compared to the present.
The Party Secretary and Prime Minister requested that the arrangement of administrative units, in addition to criteria on natural area and population size, consider criteria on history, tradition, culture, ethnicity, geographical conditions, level of socio-economic development, infrastructure, etc.
The Government leader noted that naming provincial-level administrative units must have continuity; selecting administrative-political centers must consider historical, geographical, infrastructure connectivity, development space, defense, security and integration factors.
Emphasizing the need to reorganize administrative units at all levels to strengthen authority and further promote local self-reliance, autonomy and self-reliance, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that the government must be closer to the people, more closely to the people, and solve work for the people more conveniently. Along with that, it must bring more benefits to the people, making them increasingly happy and prosperous; creating consensus among the people.
Source: https://nld.com.vn/thu-tuong-se-giam-khoang-50-don-vi-hanh-chinh-cap-tinh-sau-sap-xep-196250311182046128.htm
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