Mr. Hoang Hai Van, Director of the Organization and Personnel Department of the Ministry of Construction, shared at the Conference on Summing up the Year 2024 and Directions, Key Tasks, and Solutions for 2025, held on December 14, about the plan to merge the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Transport.
According to Mr. Hoang Hai Van, following the directive on streamlining and reorganizing governmental bodies, the Ministry of Construction has been working intensively with the Ministry of Transport over the past two weeks to develop a proposal for the integration of the two ministries.
The proposal for the merger is built on the principle of treating the two ministries as one entity, without distinguishing between “us” and “them.” This approach allows for an honest evaluation of overlapping functions and tasks and those that are interconnected. As a result, bold and innovative solutions are suggested to dissolve, merge, or reorganize the units of the two ministries towards a more streamlined, scientific, and effective structure.
The Ministry of Construction was established in 1958 and has been in operation for over 65 years. On the other hand, the Ministry of Transport has an even longer history, dating back to 1945, making it nearly 80 years old.
Headquarters of the Ministry of Construction. Photo: The Anh.
The names “Ministry of Construction” and “Ministry of Transport” have a long-standing presence and are well-suited to the ministries’ functions and responsibilities in previous periods. The proposed name for the merged ministry is the “Ministry of Construction and Transport.”
Before the merger, the two ministries had a total of 42 units, with 19 units in the Ministry of Construction and 23 units in the Ministry of Transport.
It is anticipated that after the reorganization, merger, and integration, the number of units will be reduced to 25-27, equivalent to a 35-40% decrease. This includes 6 units in the advisory-cum-administrative block, 14-16 units in the specialized block, and 5 units in the public service block.
Regarding the internal restructuring of the Ministry of Construction, after 7 years of implementing Resolution 18, the ministry now has 15 administrative units, having dissolved 2 administrative units; the number of division-level units has been reduced from 57 to 41, a decrease of 19.3%.
In 2019, the Ministry of Construction merged the Administrative and Archives Office under the Ministry Office into the Administrative-Archives Office. They also reduced the number of division-level units in the Department of Housing and Real Estate Market Management from 9 to 6 and removed all divisions within the Departments (specifically in the Finance and Planning Department and the Organization and Personnel Department).
The Ministry of Construction has transferred the management of 14 units to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and local authorities. The Construction Hospital has been transferred to the management of Hanoi National University. The Viet Tri Construction Hospital and two Rehabilitation Centers have been transferred to local management. The merger of the Southern Institute of Urban and Rural Planning into the National Institute of Urban and Rural Planning has also been completed. Currently, the Ministry of Construction has 18 public service units under its management.
