According to Quang Ninh Provincial People's Committee, implementing the Conclusion of the Politburo at the meeting on April 3, 2026 on the establishment of Quang Ninh city directly under the Central Government based on the administrative boundaries of Quang Ninh province, Quang Ninh Provincial People's Committee issued a Plan to organize the collection of people's opinions and submit it to the Provincial People's Council meeting for the establishment of Quang Ninh city directly under the Central Government.
The form of collecting opinions is to organize people's opinions by issuing household opinion forms.
Quang Ninh Provincial People's Committee assigned the Department of Home Affairs to preside over guiding and urging the People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones to issue plans and organize people's opinions; send draft projects and related documents; complete before April 7, 2026; transfer people's opinion forms to the People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones before April 10, 2026.
People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones organize the issuance of opinion forms to households; guide the recording of forms; collect forms; complete before May 9, 2026.
People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones shall take the lead in guiding the counting of ballots, making records to confirm the results of taking people's opinions according to each village, hamlet, and neighborhood, and summarizing the results of taking people's opinions of the locality; complete before May 10, 2026.
People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones summarize and report the results of collecting people's opinions to the People's Councils of communes, wards, special zones and the Provincial People's Committee (through the Department of Home Affairs); post them on the website and electronic information portal of the People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones; complete before May 11, 2026.
The Department of Home Affairs summarizes and reports on the results of collecting people's opinions from 54 communes, wards, and special zones; advises the Provincial People's Committee to send to the Provincial People's Council, the Government Electronic Information Portal and the website and portal of the Provincial People's Committee; complete before May 13, 2026.
Based on the results of taking people's opinions (reaching 50% or more of the total number of households in favor, calculated according to provincial-level administrative units), the Department of Home Affairs completes the dossier, Project, advises the Provincial People's Committee to submit to the Provincial People's Council for consideration and comments; complete in May 2025.
According to Quang Ninh province, with the actual socio-economic development and urbanization process of Quang Ninh province taking place strongly and continuously, with breakthrough transformations, especially accelerating in recent years, compared with the regulations in the Law on Organization of Local Government and Resolution No. 112/2025/UBTVQH15, Quang Ninh province has basically met the conditions and standards of a centrally-run city.