Recently, the People's Council of Kien Giang province passed a draft resolution on agreeing on the policy of arranging commune-level administrative units (ADUs) of Kien Giang province in 2025.
After the arrangement, Kien Giang province has 48 commune-level administrative units, including 41 communes, 4 wards and 3 special zones.
Accordingly, Phu Quoc Special Zone was established on the basis of merging the entire natural area and population of 8 communes and wards: Duong Dong ward, An Thoi ward, Duong To commune, Ham Ninh commune, Cua Duong commune, Bai Thom commune, Ganh Dau commune, Cua Can commune. At the same time, the operation of these 8 communes and wards will end.
After the arrangement, Phu Quoc special zone has an area of 575.29 km2, a population of 157,629 people. The place where the working office of the DVHC is at the headquarters of the existing Phu Quoc People's Committee. This is the DVHC with the largest area of Kien Giang province after arranging.
According to the Project on arranging commune-level administrative units, of more than 145 islands, large and small in Kien Giang province, Phu Quoc is the largest island. Phu Quoc is located in the center of Southeast Asia, in the southwestern sea of Vietnam, in the Gulf of Thailand, with important shipping routes and international air corridors between South Asia, East Asia and Australia.
In particular, on the Vietnam - Cambodia - Thailand marine economic belt, Phu Quoc has the advantage of connecting and trading by air and sea with the coastal areas of Cambodia and Thailand, with favorable conditions to become an impressive destination in the network of famous tourist centers in Southeast Asia and the world. Phu Quoc has a particularly important strategic position in terms of national defense and security.
In recent years, with the attention, direction and support of the Central Government and the province, Phu Quoc City's socio-economic development has made remarkable progress, achieved many important achievements, and is also a leading destination for sea and island tourism for domestic and foreign tourists.
The establishment of Phu Quoc Special Zone is based on the requirements of socio-economic development in the new era, to ensure local authorities in the archipelago strengthen autonomy and self-responsibility; ensure flexibility and proactiveness in responding to unexpected events and situations to firmly protect the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country in the southwestern sea.
In addition, in order to promote the advantages and potential of the marine economy, international economic integration, to ensure attracting people to live, protect and develop the island; associated with DVHC arrangement, streamlining the apparatus, streamlining payroll, improving the efficiency of socio -economic investment. Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the political system; Promote decentralization, decentralization, strengthening autonomy and self -responsibility of local governments. Restructuring and improving the quality of cadres, civil servants and employees; ensure the grassroots government close to the people, close to the people and serve the people the best; Thereby contributing to strengthening and consolidating national defense and security on the southwestern waters of the country.
Through reviewing the current provisions of law, considering and carefully studying the arrangement and organizing the voters' opinions according to regulations, Kien Giang province named the grassroots level after the arrangement of "Phu Quoc special zone". The naming is suitable for historical factors, this is also a place that has existed for a long time, easy to read, easy to remember, easy to identify and especially geographical indications for areas with the largest sea tourism development activities of Vietnam. The naming of DVHC is supported by many voters in the area.
