The National Assembly Standing Committee issued Resolution 76/2025 on the arrangement of administrative units in 2025. Regulations on procedures for developing and approving the project to reorganize commune-level administrative units are clearly stated in Resolution 76.
According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, all provinces and cities have submitted documents on the project to reorganize administrative units at the provincial and commune levels. Of which, there are 23 provincial-level project dossiers and 63 commune-level project dossiers.
Based on the local project dossier, the Ministry of Home Affairs will appraise and develop a common project dossier of the Government on arrangement and consolidation of 52 provinces and cities according to the Central arrangement and consolidation orientation (11 provinces and cities remain the same) for the Government to consider submitting to the National Assembly and National Assembly Standing Committee.
At the same time, the Ministry of Home Affairs also appraised and prepared to submit to the Government to submit to the National Assembly Standing Committee 34 dossiers of the project to reorganize commune-level administrative units (including 11 dossiers of the province and city kept intact and 23 dossiers of the project of 23 new provinces and cities).
The Ministry of Home Affairs said that after the reorganization, the whole country is expected to reduce by nearly 67% compared to the present, achieving the target of the Central orientation of 60-70% of the number of commune levels reduction.
For communes that do not implement the arrangement, according to the synthesis from localities, it is expected that 128 communes nationwide will remain in their original state due to meeting the prescribed standards or having isolated locations that do not implement the arrangement.
The Ministry of Home Affairs is urgently coordinating with localities to complete the general project dossier on the arrangement and consolidation of provinces and cities to submit to the Government as soon as possible.
