According to the plan, the principle of implementation of arrangement will be applied directly to villages and residential groups that do not meet the standards for household size. The city encourages localities to proactively merge to achieve a larger scale than the standard, specifically towards a scale of 400 households or more for villages and from 550 households or more for residential groups. Specifically for areas with specific characteristics after arrangement, the scale increases too much, reaching over 1,000 households for villages or over 1,500 households for residential groups, commune-level authorities must have management solutions to ensure good self-management activities of the residential community.
This small-scale merger process absolutely does not change the administrative boundaries of communes. The separation of a village or residential group into many small clusters for merger into new units is also maximally limited, except for force majeure cases due to terrain, customs or to improve administrative management efficiency. Infrastructure in newly established villages and residential groups must be reviewed to ensure good service for people's activities, production, business, study and medical examination and treatment.
For special areas such as islands far from the mainland, planning areas for site clearance, population expansion or being complexly geographically divided by rivers, national highways, and industrial parks that cannot be arranged, localities are required to have a written explanation clearly stating the reasons and specific proposals.
The implementation roadmap of this Plan is established extremely urgently by the City People's Committee with specific time milestones. Before May 30, 2026, commune-level People's Committees must complete the review of the current situation, develop local arrangement plans, including plans for arranging non-specialized personnel and redundant support regimes, and submit them to Party committees at the same level for approval before sending them to the Department of Home Affairs. On that basis, the Department of Home Affairs is responsible for reviewing, summarizing and advising on the development of the overall plan for the whole city before June 4, 2026, and then reporting to the City People's Committee for approval to submit to the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee before June 8, 2026. Immediately after having opinions agreeing with the policy of the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee, the overall plan of the city will be issued before June 10, 2026 to serve as a basis for communes, wards, and special zones to implement.
Based on the overall plan, the Commune-level People's Committee will develop a detailed Project and organize to collect people's opinions in accordance with the law on implementing democracy at the grassroots level, fully synthesize and absorb the thoughts and aspirations of the people to complete the dossier before June 22, 2026. All of these Projects must be considered and approved by the Commune-level People's Council in a Resolution at the nearest session, the deadline for completion is before June 30, 2026. For the special case of Bach Long Vi special zone, the Special Zone People's Committee will proactively build dossiers and issue decisions according to its assigned authority.
To ensure that the plan takes place synchronously and in accordance with the law, the City People's Committee assigned the Department of Home Affairs as the standing agency, responsible for urging and inspecting the progress, and at the same time presiding over and coordinating with the Department of Finance to study and propose authorizing the Chairman of the Commune-level People's Committee to approve the list of streamlining staff and support funds for redundant non-specialized workers who resign immediately after the decision is made. The Department of Home Affairs also has the task of drafting a Resolution of the City People's Council in a streamlined order in June 2026 to specifically stipulate the allowance level and part-time allowance level for each grassroots title.
On the side of the finance sector, the Department of Finance is responsible for advising on arranging sufficient funding from the state budget according to the current decentralization to promptly pay for the merger and streamlining of the apparatus. The City Police force directs commune-level police to firmly grasp the changes in the number of households, provide accurate data to serve the development of the project, and at the same time proactively stick to the area, promptly handle arising issues of security and order, absolutely not allowing the formation of hot spots or complex cases at the grassroots level.
The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism coordinates with the Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Committee of the City Party Committee to orient widespread propaganda to create high consensus among the people, and at the same time strictly manage cyberspace to detect and strictly handle acts of spreading fake news and distorted information causing public confusion.
The city also proposed that the Organization Committee of the City Party Committee and the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the city direct and guide local associations and unions at all levels to synchronously consolidate the organization of Party cells, Fatherland Front work committees and socio-political organizations immediately after the merger of villages and residential groups. The drastic direction shows the great political determination of Hai Phong city in streamlining the apparatus and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of state management right from the grassroots level.
