On the evening of March 23, the Ministry of Home Affairs said it had sent a document to localities regarding the temporary suspension of certain tasks and work related to administrative units at all levels.

Pursuant to Conclusion No. 127-KL/TW dated February 28 of the Politburo and the Central Party Secretariat on implementing research and proposing to continue to reorganize the apparatus of the political system, including the content of developing a project to merge a number of provincial-level administrative units, not organizing the district level, continuing to merge commune-level administrative units; Document No. 1824/VPCP-NC dated March 7 of the Government Office requesting the Ministry of Home Affairs to study the appropriate time to submit to the Government a project to establish urban administrative units, the Ministry of Home Affairs requests the People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities to temporarily suspend the submission of the Project to reorganize and establish district-level and commune-level administrative units according to the provisions of Resolution No. 1211/2016/UBTVQH13 (amended and supplemented in Resolution No. 27/2022/UBTVQH15) and Resolution No. 35/2023/UBTVQH15.

The Ministry of Home Affairs also requested localities to temporarily suspend the classification of administrative units at all levels; temporarily suspend the appraisal and acceptance of dossiers and maps of administrative unit boundaries at all levels (Project 513) and create new, edit and supplement dossiers and maps of administrative unit boundaries at all levels according to the Resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee on the arrangement of each administrative unit at district and commune levels in the period 2023-2025. At the same time, localities temporarily suspend the construction of the Component of the Master Plan of district and commune-level administrative units for the period up to 2030 and vision to 2045 according to the requirements in Document No. 8657/BNV-CQDP dated December 31, 2024 of the Ministry of Home Affairs until there is a new policy from the competent authority.