Party, government leaders and National Assembly delegates at a National Assembly session on June 16, 2025.

Lawmakers voted unanimously to do away with district level administration, reducing the governmental structure to two layers -- provinces and communes.

The move is the latest in a series of drastic changes to Vietnamese government aimed at saving billions of dollars in expenditure.

Last week lawmakers in the assembly voted to merge most of the country's provinces and cities, cutting nearly 80,000 jobs.

Vice Chairman of the NA Nguyen Khac Dinh described the resolution as a historic milestone, marking the start of sweeping institutional reform and laying the constitutional foundation for a leaner and more effective political system.

He stressed that it will set the stage for building a powerful and prosperous Vietnam where its citizens live in happiness.

Lawmakers on Monday also voted on the Law on Teachers, the revised Employment Law, and the Law on amendments and supplements to a number of articles of the Law on Advertising.

After that the parliament will listen to a supplementary proposal and verification report concerning revisions to the Railway Law.

The morning session devoted considerable attention to the NA’s draft resolution on tuition fee exemptions for preschool children, elementary, secondary, and high-school students, and learners in general education programmes across the national education system. Besides, it focused deliberations on a resolution to universalise preschool education for children aged three to five.

According to the Government’s proposal, the preschool resolution is designed to implement key directives from the Politburo and the 13th Party Central Committee on social policy reform and education quality enhancement.

It also aims at establishing a legal framework enabling broader investment and support for early childhood education, making contributions to implementing children’s rights.

The Government has committed to securing financial resources for achieving universal preschool education for children aged three to five. State budget allocations will supplement the existing 20% of total education and training expenditure mandated by the Education Law, complemented by socialized education capital and other legally mobilized funding sources.

In the afternoon, the law makers will discuss at the hall the draft Law on Participation in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations. They will then break into groups to deliberate over the revised Railway Law and the investment plan for the construction of Ho Chi Minh City’s Ring Road 4 project.

Bac Giang smoothly handles administrative procedures after apparatus arrangement

BAC GIANG- Together with the whole nation, the newly established and merged agencies and units in northern province of Bac Giang have quickly come into stable operation since March 1, ensuring smooth and effective performance.

Streamlined, effective administrative apparatus: A mark of March decisions

Within just the first 15 days of March - the month marking the commencement of the new organisational apparatus - a series of swift, decisive, and practical national and social policy decisions were made, demonstrating a firm commitment to the principles of ensuring an “elite, streamlined, strong, efficient, valid and effective” newly-formed system.

 

Bac Giang reaches public consensus regarding apparatus streamlining

Bac Giang – Implementing the 12th Party Central Committee’s Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW, dated October 25, 2017, on "Some issues regarding the continued innovation, rearrangement, and streamlining of the political system’s organisational apparatus for greater efficiency," the Politburo and the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee have issued several conclusions on the task. 

Officials, party members set good examples in streamlining apparatus

BAC GIANG- Together with the whole nation, the northern province of Bac Giang has been implementing rearrangement of organizational apparatus towards “streamlined, powerful, efficient and effective” political system. In which, good examples of many officials and party members have facilitated smooth and rapid organizational arrangement and streamlining.

Government apparatus for 2021-2026 tenure after streamlining

The Government apparatus in the 2021-2026 tenure, after being restructured and streamlined, will feature 14 ministries, three ministerial-level agencies, and five government-affiliated agencies.

 

Vietnam’s business climate unaffected by State apparatus reshuffle: Spokeswoman

The ongoing state apparatus restructuring will not affect Vietnam’s business and investment environment, affirmed Spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang.