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Vietnam to reduce number of administrative units nationwide

Vietnam will reduce the number of districts by six and the number of communes by 544 after merging administrative units.
Vietnam to reduce number of administrative units nationwide ảnh 1At a meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnamwill reduce the number of districts by six and the number of communes by 544after merging administrative units.

The resolution was approved bythe National Assembly Standing Committee at its meeting on February 11.

After re-organisation, ThaiBình province will have its communes trimmed by 26 units while Lao Cai provinceand Hanoi will decrease by 10 and five, respectively. Can Tho city and Khanh Hoaprovince will reduce by two and one communes respectively. 

Tra Linh, Trung Khanh, Phuc Hoaand Quang Uyen districts in Cao Bang province will be merged into two.

Addressing the meeting, Secretaryof Cao Bang province’s Party Committee Lai Xuan Mon said the rearrangement waswelcomed by constituents (over 90 percent), adding that the province haddispatched delegations to visit Quang Ninh, Thanh Hoa and Nghe An to gain moreexperience about the places.

Many people might raise concernover the merging of administrative units because some will get higher positionwhile others lose their jobs, he said.

However, the provincial PartyCommittee has introduced measures to handle all possible problems, Mon added.

According to the official, themerging will help boost the province’s economic development and improve itsdefence capacity and political security.

National Assembly ChairwomanNguyen Thi Kim Ngan emphasised the need to ensure all residents would be onboard with the plans.

“In addition to natural areas,it was necessary to consider defence and security factors as well as culturaltraditions before merging administrative units with a view to boost livingstandards and the region’s economy,” she said.

The Ministry of Home Affairs(MoHA) plans to merge 631 communal administrative units and 16 district-levelunits by 2021 in accordance with a resolution issued by the Politburo in 2018to streamline the apparatus of local authorities and ensure the resources forsocio-economic development are used effectively.

The units to be merged are theones that do not meet criteria in terms of natural area and population fortheir current classification.

To date 44 out of 45 provincesand cities (excluding Ho Chi Minh City) have submitted their re-organisationplans to the MoHA./.
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