2026 sets out the requirement to continue reviewing, arranging, and streamlining organizations inside ministries, central agencies and local departments and branches; streamlining public non-business units and state-owned enterprises under management in accordance with the direction of the Central Government.
At the same time, innovate the financial autonomy mechanism at public non-business units; strengthen the socialization of public services; complete the planning of provinces, communes, and special zones; review, arrange, and manage public finances strictly and effectively; propose plans to handle redundant public facilities and assets, ensuring proper and effective use.
Thus, hospitals, schools, cultural and sports centers or research institutes in the public non-business sector are preparing to enter a major change phase. These changes will have 2 directions: adjusting the financial mechanism and requiring the arrangement and reorganization of the system in the 2026-2027 period.
Change is to increase autonomy but accompanied by cost transparency, change the way the State orders public services and promote the restructuring of inefficient operating units.
In the Government's action program to implement Resolution 79-NQ/TW, the orientation is to shift from the mechanism of directly allocating funds to units to the mechanism of ordering, assigning tasks or bidding for public service services, linking the budget with the quality and results of service provision.
The document sets out the requirement to classify units according to the level of autonomy and nature of tasks; and at the same time develop plans to merge, consolidate or reorganize units that are not autonomous and operate inefficiently.
The State administrative reform plan for the period 2026-2030 issued with Decision 282/QD-TTg sets the goal of perfecting institutions and completing organizational arrangement in the period 2026-2027.
In the group of tasks to innovate the management mechanism and autonomy mechanism of public non-business units, the plan outlines the direction of converting eligible units to enterprise models; and at the same time, gradually convert eligible units to comprehensive autonomy in terms of tasks, organizational structure, personnel and finance.
For essential service provision sectors such as healthcare and education, requirements on cost transparency and service price roadmap are expected to continue to be promoted, along with the process of rearranging the network to improve operational efficiency.
In the appendix attached to Decision No. 304/QD-TTg promulgating the Plan to implement the Law on Civil Servants, the Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Finance to preside over and coordinate with relevant ministries and sectors to develop and complete the Government's Decree stipulating criteria for classifying public non-business units (Clause 4, Article 5 of the Law on Civil Servants) in April 2026.
Previously, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued Document No. 12282/BNV-TCCB dated December 19, 2025, sent to the People's Committees of provinces and cities guiding the implementation of arranging and reorganizing public non-business units under the Home Affairs sector and field.
The Ministry of Home Affairs requests to review and evaluate the results of performing the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure, operating mechanisms of public non-business units under management as a basis for implementing the arrangement and reorganization of public non-business units; ensuring inheritance and promotion of the results of performing tasks of public non-business units in the past time;
The arrangement and reorganization of public non-business units does not affect the quality and efficiency of public non-business service provision activities, especially basic and essential public non-business services, serving the needs of the people.
