Arrangement of administrative units in the coming period for localities that have not implemented rearrangement in Vietnam

Arrangement of administrative units in the coming period for localities that have not implemented rearrangement in Vietnam (Image from the Internet)

Arrangement of administrative units in the coming period for localities that have not implemented rearrangement in Vietnam

In Report 8677/BC-BNV by the Ministry of Home Affairs on the situation and results of the arrangement of administrative units (AU) at district and commune levels for the period 2023-2025, as of December 31, 2024, the Ministry of Home Affairs highlighted several existing issues and limitations in the arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels over the past time, including certain localities not implementing administrative unit arrangements according to the initial Scheme:

- Some cases of arranging rural administrative units into urban areas faced obstacles regarding planning, reviewing, and evaluating urban criteria under regulations, which needed to be removed from the local general Scheme file (such as the provinces of Thua Thien Hue, Lang Son, Yen Bai, Thai Nguyen, Binh Thuan, Binh Dinh, and the city of Hanoi, among others).

- Some localities remained unassertive during implementation, failing to submit project proposals on schedule as required by the set plan. Some localities developed an overall Plan but then left a significant number of district-level and commune-level AU unarranged in the 2023 – 2025 period, such as:

+ Thanh Hoa Province proposed not to arrange 1 district-level AU and 126 commune-level AU;

+ Phu Tho Province proposed not to arrange 40 commune-level AU;

+ Ha Tinh Province proposed not to arrange 1 district-level AU and 21 commune-level AU;

+ Lai Chau Province developed an overall Plan to arrange 3 district-level and 2 commune-level AU, yet later proposed not to arrange.

Additionally, the Ministry of Home Affairs of Vietnam proposed and recommended localities to review and prepare necessary conditions for developing an overall Plan for arranging district and commune-level AU during the 2026 – 2030 period.

In this, the number of AU at district and commune levels due for arrangement in the 2023 - 2025 period but which localities proposed not to arrange should be reviewed to ensure maximum arrangement during the 2026 - 2030 period.

Thus, for district and commune-level AU that localities have proposed not to arrange recently, a review is needed to ensure maximum arrangement during the 2026 – 2030 period.

Administrative units subject to merger in the 2026 - 2030 period in Vietnam

According to Clause 3, Article 1 of Resolution 35/2023/UBTVQH15 by the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, regulations have been set regarding the administrative units at district and commune levels subject to arrangement in the 2026 - 2030 period, which include:

- District and commune-level administrative units simultaneously having natural area and population size under 100% of the standard of the corresponding administrative unit as stipulated by the Resolution of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on the standards of administrative units and the categorization of administrative units;

- District-level administrative units simultaneously having a natural area below 30% and a population size below 200% of the standard of the corresponding administrative unit as stipulated by the Resolution of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on the standards of administrative units and the categorization of administrative units;

- Commune-level administrative units simultaneously having a natural area below 30% and population size below 300% of the standard of the corresponding administrative unit as stipulated by the Resolution of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on the standards of administrative units and the categorization of administrative units.

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