Viet Nam to continue reorganization of political system's apparatus

Under the Conclusion, the Politburo requested authorities to study orientations to merge several localities, abolish district-level administrations, and merge a number of communes.

The Government Party Committee was assigned to coordinate with the Central Organization Commission, the National Assembly Party Committee, the Viet Nam Fatherland Front Party Committee, and central agencies to develop and finalize a plan to merge several localities, abolish district-level administration, and merge a number of communes and submit the plan to the Party Central Committee prior to April 7, 2025.

Over the past few months, central agencies have been restructured with an aim to save budget for investment and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the State apparatus.

For Party agencies, the Party Central Committee decided to end the operation of the Central Commission for External Relations and transfer the its functions and tasks to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Party Central Committee decided to end the operation of the Party Committee of the Central Agencies Bloc, the Party Committee of the Central Enterprises Bloc, the Party delegations and Party executive committees at central and provincial levels.

The Party Central Committee decided to establish four Party Committees directly under the Party Central Committee: The Party Committee of the Central Party Agencies; the Party Committee of the National Assembly, the Party Committee of the Government, the Party Committee of the Fatherland Front of Viet Nam and central mass organizations.

The Party Central Committee decided to establish the Central Commission for Communication, Education and Mass Mobilization by merging the Central Commission for Communication and Education and the Central Commission for Mass Mobilization.

The Party Central Committee decided to supplement new functions and tasks to the Central Economic Commission and change its name to the Central Policy and Strategy Commission.

For the legislative branch, the National Assembly ended the operation of the Committee for External Relations and transferred its tasks to the Committee for National Defense and Security, the Office of the National Assembly, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The National Assembly renamed the Committee for National Defense and Security as the Committee for National Defense, Security and External Relations.

The National Assembly set up the Law and Judicial Committee by merging the Law Committee and the Judicial Committee; set up the Economic and Financial Committee by merging the Economic Committee and the Finance-Budget Committee; set up the Culture and Social Affair Committee by merging the Social Affair Committee and the Culture Committee.

For the executive branch, the Government merged the following ministries: The Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance; the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Construction; the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment; the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Ministry of Science and Technology; the Ministry of Labor-Invalids and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The Government set up the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions on the basis of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs receiving functions, tasks and structural organization from the Ministry of Home Affairs./.