The Government has just issued Resolution No. 77/NQ-CP on the regular Government meeting in March and the online conference between the Government and localities.

In particular, the Government directed to urgently complete the two-level local government organization model, promote the arrangement and streamlining of the administrative apparatus associated with institutional improvement, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state management; carefully prepare the contents to be submitted to the 11th Central Conference of the 13th tenure and the 9th Session of the 15th National Assembly.

Ministries, agencies and localities, according to their assigned functions, tasks and powers, focus on researching and proposing amendments and supplements to regulations related to the organization of the apparatus in the system of legal documents, ensuring continuous, smooth and effective operation of the state apparatus after reorganization under the direction of the Politburo and the Secretariat.

Focus on clearly defining the authority between local government levels when converting from a 3-level to a 2-level local government model, associated with promoting decentralization from the central government to local governments.

Ministries and ministerial-level agencies urgently develop and issue documents within their authority in April 2025 to guide localities in transitioning work, ensuring no interruption in the management of sectors and fields at the local level when merging provincial-level administrative units, not organizing at the district level, and continuing to merge commune-level administrative units.

The Government assigned the Ministry of Home Affairs to preside over and coordinate with agencies and localities to urgently complete the submission and project to rearrange and reorganize administrative units at all levels and build a two-level local government organization model to ensure adequate political, legal and practical foundations for submission to the Central Executive Committee for approval;

Submit to the Government to submit to the National Assembly Standing Committee to issue a Resolution on the arrangement of administrative units at provincial and communal levels;

Submit to the National Assembly, the National Assembly Standing Committee issues a Resolution on the arrangement and merger of provincial and communal administrative units in accordance with the schedule and requirements of the Politburo and the Central Executive Committee.

The Government assigned the Ministry of Justice to promptly appraise draft laws and resolutions to be submitted to the National Assembly for approval at the 9th Session.

Strengthen monitoring, inspection and urging ministries and agencies to speed up the drafting and promulgation process according to their authority and submit to the Government and the Prime Minister for promulgation of documents detailing laws and resolutions passed by the National Assembly, determined to completely resolve the situation of delay and debt in promulgating detailed regulations in April 2025.

The Government assigns ministries, agencies and localities, according to their assigned functions, tasks and powers, to focus on reviewing, reducing and simplifying administrative procedures related to production and business activities, business conditions, internal administrative procedures, decentralizing the handling of administrative procedures, implementing administrative procedures regardless of administrative boundaries within the provincial level, ensuring the set goals and requirements and being consistent with the organizational structure after the arrangement and streamlining.