On May 28, in Hanoi, Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Propaganda Department and Central Mobilization Nguyen Trong Nghia chaired the meeting with the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee: Kien Giang and An Giang on the implementation of the Resolution of the 11th Conference of the XIII Central Committee of the Party.
Speaking at the beginning of the meeting, the Head of the Propaganda Department and the Central Mobilization Committee assessed the two provinces had deeply grasped the Resolutions of the Central Government, the conclusions of the Politburo and the Secretariat.
Head of the Central Propaganda Department and the Central Mobilization Department proposed to focus on clarifying the achieved results, especially the focus content under the direction of the Politburo, the Steering Committee has been implemented, the results, problems and limitations.
Clarify the thorough grasp and unity within the Party, consensus among the people, leadership and direction related to the grassroots; progress and progress of the implementation of the policy of merging the two provinces; arrangement of commune-level administrative units; end of district-level activities.
Head of the Central Propaganda Department and the Central Mobilization emphasized that although arranging the apparatus, they did not forget the tasks of the Party Congress at all levels, towards the XIV Congress of the Party; In which, focusing on drafting and political reports of the new Party Committee; Human resource work according to the roadmap of the Central Organizing Committee.
Regarding the implementation of the policy, Mr. Nguyen Trong Nghia emphasized that there are policies to encourage and evaluate the dedication to personnel to streamline the organizational apparatus.
According to Resolution No. 60-NQ/TW, dated April 12, 2025, at the 11th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee, the merger of An Giang and Kien Giang provinces, called An Giang province, the political and administrative center is located in Kien Giang province.
On April 28, the 33rd Session (special session) of the Kien Giang Provincial People's Council approved the project to merge with An Giang province, establish the new An Giang province ( Administrative center located in Rach Gia city).
After the merger, An Giang province has an area of over 9,888 km2 (the province with the largest area in the Western region), a population of nearly 5 million people, with 102 communes and wards, including 3 special zones, including: Phu Quoc Special Zone, Tho Chau and Kien Hai.
The total number of employees of An Giang province after the merger is 29,911 people. Of which, the current staff of An Giang province is 16,939 people, Kien Giang is 12,972 staff.
After reviewing, the total number of public headquarters (provincial level) of the two provinces before the arrangement was 876. Of which, it is expected that 718 headquarters will continue to be used; 40 unused headquarters and 118 headquarters with other options.
The People's Committees of An Giang and Kien Giang provinces will coordinate to develop a plan to continue to arrange, use, and transfer to other agencies and units for use or organize property auctions according to regulations; avoid the situation of abandoned headquarters, causing waste.
According to the project, the number of cadres, civil servants and officials of An Giang province after the maximum consolidation does not exceed the total number of payrolls of An Giang and Kien Giang first to consolidate and streamlining with restructuring, improving the quality of the team according to the roadmap, within 5 years.
After the local government of An Giang province comes into operation, based on the population size, natural area, functions, tasks, and powers of the province, to build job positions and submit them to competent authorities to assign staff to the province according to regulations.
