On January 27, the National Political Publishing House Truth said that this agency had just published the book "Vietnamese administrative units after arrangement and operation of two-level local government" by authors Nguyen Thai Binh and Truong Hai Long.
This is a useful handbook, providing officials, party members and people with basic information about administrative units in the organizational structure of the two-level local government after the merger.
From July 1, 2025, the two-level local government model officially went into operation nationwide, marking an important turning point in the process of institutional reform and reorganizing the state apparatus from the Central to grassroots levels.
The birth of the book "Vietnamese administrative units after arrangement and operation of two-level local government" is of particular importance, contributing to providing a scientific and practical basis for planning, organizing and operating local government in Vietnam today.
The book provides basic information of 34 provincial and centrally-run city-level administrative units and 3,321 commune-level administrative units after arranging and operating the local government at two levels.
Each commune-level administrative unit is presented in the overall provincial-level administrative unit with full information content on new arrangements based on administrative boundaries and population size of administrative units before mergers, convenient for searching for information about geographical location and boundaries of each new administrative unit.
This is a highly topical approach, closely following the requirements set out from the practice of reforming the state apparatus, especially in the context that Vietnam is promoting the construction of a socialist rule-of-law state, developing a modern and effective national governance.
In addition to the content of information on administrative units, the book also publishes 34 administrative maps of 34 provinces and cities after the merger provided by the Publishing House of Natural Resources - Environment and Vietnam Map.
This is official administrative map document according to the latest national plan, compiled according to modern map technical standards and in accordance with official data after the National Assembly's Resolution.
In the context of Vietnam continuing to promote the streamlined organizational structure of the political system, operating effectively and efficiently, the book "Vietnamese Administrative Units after the arrangement and operation of the two-level local government" can be seen as a timely and necessary reference document, a very useful information lookup handbook about administrative units before and after implementing the merger according to the current two-level local government model.
