In her speech explaining the project to reorganize the province into a province on the morning of June 12, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra expressed her emotion about the district-level administrative unit.
"The district-level administrative unit has steadfastly and persistently shouldered great responsibility, excellently and fully completed the glorious historical mission over the past nearly 8 decades".
From there, the district level has created a solid foundation for the country to enter a new period, a new administration, operating under the two-level local government, the Minister emphasized.
These words of Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra not only summarize a governance model that has been attached to the country throughout the length of modernization, but also the beginning of a period of strong and strategic transformation in the local government apparatus.
The district level - throughout the period of resistance, national construction and renovation - has been an effective bridge between the provincial and commune governments, a place to directly organize forces, mobilize people, and operate grassroots development.
At the district level, campaigns to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, popularize education, build new rural areas, preserve ethnic culture... have been successfully implemented, contributing to creating a face of the country as it is today.
The National Assembly's approval of the project to reorganize administrative units and reorganize the local government model in the direction of two levels - provinces and communes - is a step towards restructuring the management system in the direction of effectiveness and efficiency.
However, the "completion of the mission" of the district level is not a simple end, but a proactive and strategic transfer. It opens up space for the two-level government to become more streamlined, effective and efficient.
In the context of digital transformation, urbanization and the need to serve people more quickly and accurately, the two-level government model is even more necessary to reduce the layer of responsibility, increase transparency and synchronization in management.
It is worth mentioning that this arrangement process is carried out with a profound sense of humanity.
The gratitude from the head of the internal affairs sector is not only for the cadre system but also for each citizen - those who are directly affected by changes in place names, administrative habits and community life organization.
The district level ended its operation after nearly 80 years of complete operation with the glorious historical mission. When the new model is put into operation, we are not only replicating a chapter of the institution, but continuing to write it in the spirit of inheritance.
That is the way that the values that have been nurtured at the district level will not be lost, but continue to spread in a streamlined, modern and closer to the people than ever.
