On the afternoon of December 5, the Hanoi Party Committee held a conference to implement the Resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee and the city's plan to rearrange administrative units for the 2023-2025 period.

At the conference, Director of the Department of Home Affairs Tran Dinh Canh disseminated Resolution No. 1286 of the National Assembly Standing Committee on the arrangement of commune-level administrative units of Hanoi City, period 2023-2025; effective from January 1, 2025. The Resolution stipulates the arrangement of 109 commune-level administrative units to form 56 new commune-level administrative units in 20 districts, towns and cities of Hanoi City.

Since the Resolution takes effect, Hanoi has 30 district-level administrative units, including: 17 districts, 12 urban districts and 1 town. Of which, 526 commune-level administrative units, including: 345 communes, 160 wards and 21 towns (the number of district-level administrative units remains unchanged, a decrease of 53 commune-level administrative units compared to the present).

Regarding finance and public assets in the implementation of administrative unit arrangement, Director of the Department of Finance Nguyen Xuan Luu said that out of 109 commune-level working offices to be arranged, according to the handling plan proposed by districts, towns, and cities, 99 working offices will be retained to continue to be working offices of new administrative units or converted into community activity houses, village cultural houses, and residential groups, managed by the People's Committees of the new communes; 6 working offices will be transferred to other agencies to be used as schools or headquarters of the commune police; 4 offices will be transferred to the People's Committees of the districts.

The Director of the Department of Finance also emphasized that no fees will be collected when converting documents related to the arrangement of administrative units in accordance with the spirit of the Resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee.

Regarding residence management and adjusting and updating citizen information in the national population database, Lieutenant General Nguyen Hai Trung, Director of Hanoi City Police, said that citizen information will be transferred to the new administrative unit by the data system in parallel with completing paper records.

Answering and clarifying issues related to personnel work at administrative units implementing the arrangement, Director of the Department of Home Affairs Tran Dinh Canh said that the Department of Home Affairs will have instructions on transferring commune-level cadres and civil servants to state civil servants.

"For cases of leaders and heads, we request that localities prioritize salary and rank arrangements for Party officials so that we can make a decision before December 31. Later, if the officials are transferred to deputy positions, they will also be civil servants," said Mr. Tran Dinh Canh.

Regarding the transfer of cadres from wards to districts or from districts to public service units, Mr. Tran Dinh Canh said that they do not accept those from other provinces, but within the city, they are carried out normally, especially giving priority to districts, towns, communes, wards, and towns that have arranged administrative units.

Speaking at the conference, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Nguyen Van Phong requested localities to focus on leadership and direction in a proactive spirit; continue to do a good job of ideological work, grasp public opinion; and prepare for the Party Congresses at all levels in administrative units to be reorganized. In particular, it is noted that the work of arranging cadres must be carried out according to the roadmap, and ideological work must be done well, consistently.