NA Standing Committee adopts resolution on arrangement of administrative units

The Resolution stipulates the arrangement of provinces and centrally-run cities and the arrangement of communes, wards and towns in 2025 according to the resolutions and conclusions of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat on continuing to arrange the apparatus of the political system, arrange administrative units and organise a two-tier local government model.
An overview of the 44th session of the National Assembly Standing Committee on April 14.
An overview of the 44th session of the National Assembly Standing Committee on April 14.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man has just signed and issued Resolution No.76/2025/UBTVQH15 of the National Assembly Standing Committee on the arrangement of administrative units in 2025. The Resolution was passed on April 14, by the National Assembly Standing Committee at the 44th Session.

The Resolution clearly states that the provincial-level administrative units formed after the rearrangement must meet the standards on natural area and population size of the corresponding administrative units as prescribed in the Resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee on standards of administrative units and classification of administrative units.

The National Assembly Standing Committee assigns the Government to lead and direct the People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to develop a project on rearranging commune-level administrative units in the locality to ensure a reduction in the number of commune-level administrative units nationwide according to the ratio prescribed in Clause 3, Article 1 of this Resolution.

This Resolution takes effect from April 15, 2025. Also from this point in time, Resolution No.35/2023/UBTVQH15 dated July 12, 2023, of the National Assembly Standing Committee on the arrangement of the district- and commune-level administrative units for the 2023-2030 period and Resolution No. 50/2024/UBTVQH15 dated August 22, 2024, of the National Assembly Standing Committee stipulating several contents related to ensuring requirements for urban classification and standards of administrative units to implement the arrangement of the district- and commune-level administrative units for the 2023-2025 period will expire.

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