On March 9, according to information from the Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Office, after two stages of administrative unit arrangement (2019 - 2021 and 2023 - 2025), the number of commune-level units in the whole province decreased from 460 to 412, in 20 districts, cities and towns. The total number of cadres, civil servants and part-time workers in these units is 15,918 people.
Previously, on February 28, 2025, the Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee issued an Official Letter requesting departments, branches, sectors and People's Committees of districts, cities and towns to implement contents related to the organizational arrangement.
Nghe An Provincial People's Committee requires "the process of arranging the apparatus and assigning cadres must be fair and objective in the spirit of "from selecting people", retaining capable cadres, not allowing "gray bleeding", not allowing complex internal problems to arise.
In Conclusion No. 127-KL/TW, dated February 28, 2025 on the implementation of research and proposal to continue reorganizing the apparatus of the political system, the Politburo and the Secretariat assigned the Government Party Committee to preside over and coordinate with the Central Organizing Committee, the National Assembly Party Committee, the Fatherland Front Party Committee, Central organizations and relevant agencies to direct the research and development of a project and submission to the Politburo on merging a number of provincial-level administrative units, not organizing at district level, and continuing to merge commune-level administrative units. This project will be submitted to the Party Central Committee before April 7, 2025.
In particular, the Politburo and the Secretariat requested that it is necessary to clearly identify local government models at the commune level for urban areas, rural areas, mountainous areas, plains, islands, population size, area, history, culture, socio-economic issues, national defense, security, ethnicity, religion, etc. Building functions, tasks, powers, organizational structure, and boroughing of local government at the commune level.
