Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed and issued Official Dispatch No. 71/CD-TTg dated July 21, 2024 on key tasks and solutions to promote growth, control inflation, and stabilize the macroeconomy in July. and the third quarter of 2024.
One of the key tasks emphasized by the Prime Minister is to complete the dossier to submit to the Government the project to arrange administrative units at district and commune levels for the period 2023-2025, ensuring completion before the deadline. September 30, 2024 to prepare for Party Congresses at all levels for the 2025–2030 term.
According to the plan to arrange administrative units, the whole country has 53 localities that must be rearranged, including 49 district-level units, after arrangement, 12 units will be reduced; Commune level has 1,247 units, after arrangement, 624 units were reduced.
As of June 30, the Ministry of Home Affairs received 28/53 local dossiers, evaluated 14 projects and submitted 5 projects to the Government from provinces and cities: Nam Dinh, Soc Trang, Tuyen Quang, Can Tho, and Ninh. Thuan.
On July 19, the National Assembly's Law Committee met and approved the plan to arrange the administrative units of Nam Dinh, Soc Trang and Tuyen Quang provinces.
Nam Dinh province has 44 commune-level administrative units under arrangement. The locality proposes to make additional arrangements for 2 district-level administrative units and 2 commune-level administrative units under encouragement; There are 31 adjacent commune-level administrative units involved.
Thus, Nam Dinh province has 2/10 district-level administrative units implementing the arrangement (My Loc district and Nam Dinh city); 77/226 commune-level administrative units carried out the arrangement (including 55 communes, 17 wards, 5 towns).
After merging My Loc district into Nam Dinh city and implementing 28 plans to establish and arrange 79/226 commune-level administrative units of Nam Dinh province to form 28 new commune-level administrative units, Nam Dinh province reduced 1 district-level administrative unit ( My Loc district).
From 10 district-level administrative units, this province has 9 district-level administrative units; from 226 commune-level administrative units to 175 commune-level administrative units (reduced by 51).
For Soc Trang province, after the arrangement, the district-level administrative units of the province have not changed. At the commune level alone, there are 108 units (including 80 communes, 16 wards and 12 towns), a decrease of one unit due to merging Ward 1 into Ward 9, named Ward 1 (new).
For Tuyen Quang province, after arrangement, the province kept 7 district-level administrative units (6 districts and 1 city) and reduced 1 commune to 137 commune-level administrative units.
Commune-level administrative units have 2 communes under arrangement (including: Hong Lac commune and Van Son commune of Son Duong district). The province proposed to merge the entire natural area and population size of Hong Lac commune and Van Son commune to establish (new) Hong Son commune in Son Duong district.
At the conference to deploy tasks in the last 6 months of 2024, Mr. Phan Trung Tuan, Director of the Department of Local Government (Ministry of Home Affairs), said that the actual time budget to carry out the entire process of arranging administrative units Only about 3 months left.
Mr. Tuan acknowledged that many localities are facing problems with urban planning and urban classification. The Ministry of Home Affairs is coordinating with the Ministry of Construction to develop a specific resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee to resolve the issue to ensure overall progress.
