The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Office has sent a document to the municipal Department of Home Affairs conveying city leaders’ instructions to continue studying possible adjustments to commune-level administrative units across the city.

Under the direction of Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Manh Cuong, the Department of Home Affairs will lead the review in coordination with the municipal Party Committee’s Organization Commission and other relevant agencies and units.

The review will focus on administrative units that do not fully meet prescribed standards and conditions, as well as those where practical problems or shortcomings have emerged during operations.

The process must follow criteria, principles, conditions and procedures stipulated by central authorities.

Based on the findings, the city will develop adjustment plans where genuinely necessary, following a scientific and cautious approach designed to build public consensus and minimize disruption.

The Department of Home Affairs is responsible for advising the municipal People’s Committee, which will submit the matter to the Standing Board of the People’s Committee Party Committee before reporting to the Standing Board of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee for consideration and policy guidance.

This work must be completed by August 25.

Earlier, the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee also sent a document to the People’s Committee Party Committee, Party committees of communes, wards and the special zone, as well as relevant agencies, calling for further study of possible commune-level administrative restructuring.

The move is intended to implement Conclusion No. 76-KL/TW of the 14th Party Central Committee.

Under the instructions, Party committees of communes, wards and the special zone must convene expanded meetings of their Party executive committees to assess their organization and operations following a period under the two-tier local government model.

Where adjustments are considered necessary, they must prepare proposals based on the principles of scientific planning, caution and public consensus, and submit them to the municipal Party Committee’s Organization Commission by August 30.

By the same deadline, the City Development Research Board must complete a specialized report analyzing the current status of commune-level administrative units.

The municipal Party Committee’s Organization Commission will consolidate the findings and submit them to the Standing Board of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee for consideration before September 5.

Ho Chi Minh City currently has 168 commune-level administrative units, comprising 113 wards, 54 communes and one special zone, following its merger with Binh Duong and Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

Phuoc Sang