The conference was attended by the Standing Committee of the Binh Dinh Provincial Party Committee and the Standing Committee of the Gia Lai Provincial Party Committee.
At the conference, Chairman of Binh Dinh People's Committee Pham Anh Tuan reported the main content of the project of arranging administrative units of Gia Lai and Binh Dinh provinces. Accordingly, the project has been completed and sent to the Standing Committee of the two provinces to consider. The project consists of 4 parts, with 34 pages.
"According to the Central Government's policy, Binh Dinh and Gia Lai will merge in the original state, taking the new province's name as Gia Lai. The headquarters of the new provincial Political - Administrative Center is located in Quy Nhon City (Binh Dinh Province). The natural area of the new Gia Lai province is 21,576.53km2, with more than 3.58 million people; there are expected to be 135 commune-level administrative units (including 110 communes and 25 wards)", Mr. Pham Anh Tuan reported.
Binh Dinh Provincial Party Secretary Ho Quoc Dung said that after being assigned tasks by the Central Government, the Standing Committee of Binh Dinh Provincial Party Committee closely coordinated with the Standing Committee of Gia Lai Provincial Party Committee to develop the project.
On April 4, in Gia Lai, the two sides held their first meeting to discuss "come home together". And today, in Binh Dinh, the two provinces once again sat down to give opinions on important contents, report to the Politburo and the Central Steering Committee to submit to the National Assembly.
Giving his opinion at the conference, Mr. Ho Van Nien - Secretary of the Gia Lai Provincial Party Committee - said that the project had received high consensus between the Standing Committees of the two provinces. The Gia Lai Provincial People's Council has also issued a Resolution agreeing on the merger policy.
After listening to the report, the Standing Committee of the two provinces agreed through the project of arranging administrative units of Gia Lai and Binh Dinh province; The principle of organizing the organizational structure and assigning officials, in order to implement the two provinces consolidating; The draft decision to establish the Steering Committee for consolidation of Gia Lai and Binh Dinh provinces and establish subcommittees to serve the new Gia Lai Provincial Party Congress.
Based on this result, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee will direct the two local authorities to coordinate closely to complete the project of arranging administrative units of Gia Lai province and Binh Dinh province to submit to the Central Government before 1.5.
