At the meeting, the People's Council of Thai Nguyen province passed a Resolution on the policy of arranging commune-level administrative units of Thai Nguyen province in 2025 and a Resolution on the policy of arranging and merging Bac Kan and Thai Nguyen provinces.
The report at the meeting showed that the Draft Project to merge Thai Nguyen and Bac Kan provinces and the Draft Project to reorganize commune-level administrative units in the area have received the consensus and high consensus of the majority of voters and people with 99.92% of commune-level People's Council delegates and 100% of district-level People's Council delegates in agreement.
It is expected that after the merger, Thai Nguyen province will have an area of over 8,300km2 (equal to 2.4 times the current), with a population of over 1.68 million people (an increase of over 365,000 people), combining the potential and strengths of the two provinces of Thai Nguyen and Bac Kan.
Meanwhile, after the arrangement of commune-level administrative units, Thai Nguyen province reduced from 172 communes, wards and towns to 55 communes and wards (equivalent to a decrease of 68.02%).
The arrangement and merger of commune-level administrative units helps streamline the apparatus, streamline the payroll, save the budget, create stronger development opportunities by eliminating intermediate administrative levels, optimizing resources, and synchronously developing fields.
The delegates of the Thai Nguyen Provincial People's Council requested the Provincial People's Committee to report and explain more clearly the plan to arrange and organize facilities, equipment and working conditions so that the new communes can immediately come into operation.
Handling surplus public assets, managing public investment projects, arranging public housing, means of transportation for work and travel needs of cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers of Bac Kan province to work in Thai Nguyen province.
Also at this session, the People's Council of Thai Nguyen province also passed a Resolution regulating funding to support the teaching and learning of Vietnamese for ethnic minority children before entering grade 1 in Thai Nguyen province.
