Reorganization of administrative units in Tra Vinh province from January 1, 2025

Reorganization of administrative units in Tra Vinh province from January 1, 2025​ (Image from the internet)

On November 14, 2024, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of VIetnam issued Resolution 1277/NQ-UBTVQH15 regarding the reorganization of commune-level administrative units in Tra Vinh Province for the period 2023-2025.

Reorganization of administrative units in Tra Vinh province from January 1, 2025​

Reorganization of commune-level administrative units in Tra Vinh City is as follows:

- Merge the entire natural area of 0.29 km², with a population of 3,885 people from Ward 2, and the entire natural area of 1.01 km², with a population of 10,960 people from Ward 6 into Ward 3. After the merger, Ward 3 has a natural area of 1.47 km² and a population of 18,644 people.

Ward 3 borders Ward 1, Ward 4, Ward 5, Ward 7, and Ward 9;

- After the reorganization, Tra Vinh City will have 08 commune-level administrative units, consisting of 07 wards and 01 commune.

After rearranging the commune-level administrative units, Tra Vinh Province will have 09 district-level administrative units, consisting of 07 districts, 01 district-level town, and 01 city; 104 commune-level administrative units, consisting of 85 communes, 09 wards, and 10 commune-level towns.

The Government of Vietnam, the People's Council, the People's Committee of Tra Vinh Province, and relevant agencies and organizations are responsible for implementing Resolution 1277/NQ-UBTVQH15 of 2024; to organize and streamline the apparatus of local agencies and organizations; to stabilize the lives of local citizens, ensuring the requirements for socio-economic development, national defense, and security in the area.

In addition, the Government of Vietnam instructs relevant ministries and the authorities of Tra Vinh Province to continue researching and formulating appropriate reorganizations for administrative units that need to be arranged but have not been implemented during the period 2023 - 2025, determining the timeline for completing necessary standards and conditions to ensure reorganization in the subsequent years accordingly.

Cases where rereorganization of district and commune-level administrative units in Vietnam is not mandatory

- District and commune-level administrative units that are subject to reorganization but possess any of the following distinct factors are not required to implement the reorganization:

+ Isolated location and difficult to organize convenient transportation connections with adjacent administrative units;

+ The administrative boundary has remained stable and has not been changed or adjusted since 1945;

+ Has a critical position in terms of national defense, security or unique characteristics in terms of historical tradition, culture, ethnicity, religion, belief, and customs that, if arranged with another adjacent administrative unit, will lead to instability in national defense, security, order, and social safety;

+ Rural administrative units subject to reorganization which have been approved for development planning to an urban administrative unit by the competent authority during the period 2023 - 2030, having a natural area and population scale meeting the standards of an urban administrative unit as stipulated in the Resolution of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on administrative unit standards and classification.

- During the period 2023 - 2025, it is not required to rearrange district and commune-level administrative units that were already arranged during the period 2019 - 2021.

- During the period 2026 - 2030, it is not required to rearrange district and commune-level administrative units that were already arranged during the periods 2019 - 2021 and 2023 - 2025.

For the above cases, if the locality deems it necessary to implement reorganization for reasonable organization of district and commune-level administrative units, the provincial People's Committee shall report in the overall plan and proposal for rearranging administrative units of the locality for submission to the competent authority for consideration.

(Article 3 Resolution 35/2023/UBTVQH15)

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