Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed a decision to promulgate the key state administrative reform plan for the 2026-2030 period.

In the 2026-2027 period, the revision and supplementation of the organization and operation of the administrative apparatus must be completed. This ensures a stable and feasible legal basis for the government from central to local levels to operate smoothly, and efficiently.

Furthermore, this period must finalize institutions and policies on innovating management and financial autonomy mechanisms for public service units to ensure timeliness and alignment with the Party's guidelines; and complete the rearrangement of public service units, schools, medical facilities, and SOEs.

Another task requires that 100 percent of national digital platforms and shared digital platforms of the fields serving the digital government are to be completed and put into unified use from central to local levels according to plan. 

All ministries, sectors, and localities are to reach level 3 in data governance maturity. And all administrative procedures eligible must be provided as end-to-end online public services on the National Public Service Portal.

For the 2028-2030 period, the plan sets the goal of having a fair, unified, public, transparent, and feasible legal system.

The contingent of cadres, civil servants, and public employees should be professional, high-quality, and possess appropriate quantity and structure. The contingent of cadres at all levels, especially at the strategic level, must have sufficient qualities, capacity, and prestige on par with their tasks. Communal-level cadres and civil servants must effectively meet the requirements of the new era.

The satisfaction level of people and businesses regarding the resolution of administrative procedures should reach a minimum of 95 percent. Specifically, satisfaction regarding the resolution of administrative procedures in the fields of land, construction, and investment should reach at least 90 percent.

According to the plan, the key task is institutional reform. Specifically, the plan mentions continuing breakthroughs in building and perfecting institutions to release all resources for development, considering this the "breakthrough of breakthroughs" and a national competitive advantage.

The legal system regarding the socialist-oriented market economy needs to be perfected to create a favorable, open, transparent, safe, and low-compliance-cost legal environment, promoting innovative startups and improving a stable investment and business environment.

The legal system must promptly remove institutional bottlenecks and implement solutions to promote the state economy as a pioneering force in development, opening the way for industrialization, modernization, economic restructuring, and the establishment of a new growth model.

Breakthroughs are also required in law enforcement to ensure that laws are implemented fairly, strictly, consistently, promptly, effectively, and efficiently, closely linking law-making and law enforcement.

Regarding administrative procedure reform, the plan calls for continued strict control over the issuance of administrative procedure regulations during the drafting and promulgation of legal documents, especially procedures directly affecting citizens and businesses. Newly issued procedures must be genuinely necessary, simple, easy to understand, and easy to implement.

It also requires continued review and proposals to eliminate cumbersome and overlapping procedures that may be exploited for corruption or cause difficulties for citizens and organizations; removal of unnecessary and unreasonable dossier components; and strong integration and reduction of forms, declarations, notarization requirements, and unnecessary documents or those containing overlapping information, based on effective use of existing data in national and specialized databases.

Eliminating the “ask–give” mechanism, reforming salary and bonus regimes

In terms of organizational reform, the plan requires continued review and improvement of regulations on functions, tasks, and organizational structures of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and agencies under the Government to ensure unity, clarity, and the avoidance of overlapping functions and responsibilities.

It also calls for reviewing and streamlining internal organizational units within ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and specialized agencies under provincial People’s Committees, ensuring they are lean, strong, effective, efficient, and high-performing.

Institutions, mechanisms and policies must be improved to promote decentralization and delegation of authority in tandem with power control mechanisms, eliminate the “ask–give” mechanism, enhance the responsibility of heads of agencies, and ensure effective implementation.

Another key task is reforming the civil service regime, salary and bonus policies, and diversifying incentive policies for officials, civil servants, and public employees.

Tran Thuong