On the afternoon of the 5th of December, the Hanoi Party Committee organized a conference to deploy the Resolution of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee and the city’s plan for the arrangement of administrative units for the period of 2023-2025.
At the conference, Director of the Department of Home Affairs Tran Dinh Canh promulgated Resolution No. 1286 of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on the arrangement of 109 administrative units at the communal level in Hanoi, for the period of 2023-2025; which will take effect from January 1, 2025. The Resolution stipulates the arrangement of these units to form 56 new communal-level administrative units across 20 districts, suburban districts, and towns in Hanoi.
From the effective date of the Resolution, Hanoi will have 30 administrative units at the district level, including: 17 rural districts, 12 urban districts, and 1 town. There will be a total of 526 administrative units at the communal, ward, and township levels, comprising: 345 communes, 160 wards, and 21 townships (with no change in the number of district-level units and a reduction of 53 communal-level units compared to the present).
Regarding finances and public assets in the implementation of administrative unit arrangement, Director of the Department of Finance Nguyen Xuan Luu shared that out of the 109 commune-level office buildings involved in the arrangement, according to the proposed handling plan of the districts, suburban districts, and towns, 99 office buildings will be retained for continued use as offices of the new administrative units or converted into community houses, village cultural houses, or ward cultural houses, under the management of the People’s Committees of the new communes.
Six office buildings will be transferred to other agencies for use as schools or offices of the Commune-level Police, and four office buildings will be transferred to the district-level People’s Committees.
Director of the Department of Finance also emphasized that no fees of any kind will be collected when citizens apply for the conversion of documents related to the arrangement of administrative units, in accordance with the spirit of the Resolution of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee.
Regarding the management of residence registration and the updating of citizen information in the national database on population, Director of the Hanoi Police, Lieutenant General Nguyen Hai Trung, assured that citizen information will be transferred to the new administrative units in parallel with the completion of paper records.
Providing clarification on issues related to personnel matters in administrative units undergoing arrangement, Director Tran Dinh Canh of the Department of Home Affairs, stated that the department will provide guidance on transferring commune-level officials and civil servants to become state civil servants.
“For the heads of units, we request that localities prioritize the salary and rank arrangement for Party officials so that we can issue decisions before December 31. Even if these officials later become deputies, they will still be civil servants,” said Tran Dinh Canh.
Regarding the transfer of officials from wards to districts or from districts to units of a professional nature, Mr. Canh said that transfers from other provinces would not be accepted, but transfers within the city would be carried out normally, especially with priority given to districts, suburban districts, towns, communes, wards, and townships that are undergoing administrative unit arrangement.
Speaking at the conference, Mr. Nguyen Van Phong, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, requested that localities take the lead in a proactive manner; continue to do well in ideological work and grasp social sentiments; and prepare for party congresses at all levels in the administrative units undergoing arrangement. He particularly emphasized the need to pay attention to the arrangement of personnel, which should be carried out in a roadmap with consistent ideological work.
Nguyen Huong
