If leading a country is like playing chess, then 2025 marked a year of carefully crafting a powerful board position. The question now is how Vietnam will make its strategic moves in 2026 and beyond.

Vietnam’s new Decree 370/2025 outlines staffing structures for provincial and local departments, with special provisions for Hanoi and HCM City.

City leaders urged to settle high-priority challenges post-merger, as Party discipline tightens.

Deputy National Assembly Chair Nguyen Khac Dinh affirmed that Vietnam’s Party and State currently have no policy to merge, split, or reorganize administrative units in the coming years.

A landmark decision in 2025 reshapes Vietnam’s administrative map, with far-reaching implications for governance.

Deputy PM Nguyen Hoa Binh presented a detailed progress report to the National Assembly, revealing a 5–15% workforce cut and enhanced regulatory measures.

The Politburo has issued a directive calling for urgent restructuring of commune-level schools and medical stations across Vietnam before year-end.

No longer are there scenes of people waiting or making multiple trips to process "Red Books". The decentralization of authority to resolve land procedures to the commune/ward level in some areas in Bac Ninh has helped citizens reduce travel time.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Home Affairs has firmly denied rumors that the country plans to reduce the number of provinces from 34 to 16.

The Vietnamese government sets limits on the number of provincial vice chairpersons depending on administrative structure and population.

The Politburo has greenlit a strategic initiative to standardize and modernize the classification of cities and localities.

Many experts believe that transferring the authority and functions of land registration office branches to communes will make administrative procedures more convenient for citizens, while allowing communes to manage land data.

On November 7, Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Thang presented the draft amendment to the Law on Planning and an updated version of the National Master Plan for 2021-2030, with a vision toward 2050, to the National Assembly.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered revision of overlapping regulations and building of a job-position framework as the basis for appropriate staffing to consolidate the two-tier local government system in November.

Lawmakers have expressed concern that the resignation of well-trained and experienced public officials is negatively affecting the quality of the public workforce.

Vietnam’s top leaders urge truth-telling and bold action to overcome institutional inertia and drive real change.

HCMC has submitted a report to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on staffing at 168 commune-level People’s Committees and has proposed several measures to improve the efficiency of two-tier local government operations.

Vietnam’s government is redefining its role, embracing a service-oriented model that prioritizes reform, resilience, and citizen-centered governance.

The Prime Minister demands clear responsibility and results from officials in resolving local challenges.

After nearly three months of administrative streamlining, mountainous areas near Da Nang are short of specialized personnel, while central areas have an excess of hundreds of public officials.