State President Luong Cuong works with Hung Yen and Thai Binh Provincial Party Committees

The working session drew the attendance of Members of the Party Central Committee: Head of the Office of the State President Le Khanh Hai; Permanent Deputy Head of the Central Inspection Commission Tran Van Ron; Member of the National Assembly Standing Committee, Head of the National Assembly Committee for Deputy Affairs Nguyen Thanh Hai; members of Working Group 2089. On the Hung Yen Provincial Party Committee and Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee, in the attendance were comrade Nguyen Huu Nghia, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of Hung Yen Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Khac Than, Secretary of Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee; comrades in the Standing Boards of Hung Yen Provincial Party Committee and Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee.

State President Luong Cuong at the working session

At the working session, Comrade Secretary of Hung Yen Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Huu Nghia, representing the two provinces, reported on the situation and results of the implementation of the Resolution of the 11th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee.

Comrade Secretary of Hung Yen Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Huu Nghia speaks at the working session

Accordingly, in the past time, Hung Yen Provincial Party Committee and Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee have organized to thoroughly grasp and seriously and effectively implement the Resolution of the 11th Central Conference and the conclusions and directions of the Politburo, the Secretariat, and the guiding documents of the Central Committee. The Standing Boards of Hung Yen Provincial Party Committee and Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee have established Steering Committees to reorganize administrative units in the two provinces and regularly direct the task of merging Hung Yen and Thai Binh provinces synchronously and effectively.

The Provincial Party Committees and the Standing Boards of Hung Yen Provincial Party Committee and Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee have directed Party committees at all levels, agencies and units to develop and basically complete 100% of the projects and plans (equivalent to 37 projects and plans) to rearrange the organizational apparatus to submit to the Hung Yen Provincial Party Executive Committee (new) for approval after the Politburo and the Secretariat established the provincial Party Committee and appointed the Hung Yen Provincial Party Executive Committee (new).

Delegates attend the working session

The project to rearrange Hung Yen and Thai Binh provinces, the project to rearrange commune-level administrative units, and the collection of voters' opinions have achieved good results. Currently, the projects are being submitted by the Government to the National Assembly and the Standing Committee of the National Assembly for consideration and approval at the 9th Session of the 15th National Assembly. It is expected that the number of commune-level administrative units in Hung Yen will decrease by nearly 71.94% and Thai Binh will decrease by 73.2%.

The Standing Board of Hung Yen Provincial Party Committee has coordinated with the Standing Board of Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee to complete the project to end the activities of Hung Yen provincial Party Committee (old), Thai Binh provincial Party Committee and establish Hung Yen provincial Party Committee (new); arrange and merge agencies and units of the two provinces...

Hung Yen and Thai Binh provinces agreed to effectively use existing headquarters and working equipment, limit the need to change workplaces and disrupt the normal operations of agencies and units during and after the process of merging and consolidating agencies, units and organizing a 2-level local government model; quickly switch to working mainly in a digital environment from July 1, 2025; proactively and readily carry out plans to arrange working headquarters and necessary public service facilities immediately after the arrangement and merger of the two provinces as well as not organizing district level, arrange and merge communal administrative units.

The Standing Boards of the Provincial Party Committees of the two provinces directed the organization of a working session between the Congress Document Editorial Team, agreeing on a number of contents in the coordination work of building the documents of the Hung Yen Provincial Party Congress (merged). The draft Political Report of the Hung Yen Provincial Party Congress for the 2025-2030 term (after the merger) is built on the basis of inheriting the reasonable content of the draft Political Reports of the Hung Yen Provincial Party Congress and the Thai Binh Provincial Party Congress; at the same time, promptly updating, fully absorbing the content, thoughts, and new guiding viewpoints in the draft documents of the 14th National Party Congress and closely linking with the practical situation of the new Hung Yen province.

Along with that, the work of building the personnel plan for the provincial Party Committee for the 2025-2030 term was also commented on, discussed and agreed upon by the Provincial Party Committees of the two provinces.

Comrade Nguyen Khac Than, Secretary of Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee, speaks at the meeting.

In addition, the task of leading and directing the socio-economic development of the locality was also focused on by Hung Yen Provincial Party Committee and Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee, achieving a lot of positive results.

The representatives of the two provinces requested the Politburo and the Secretariat to promptly approve the projects of organizations, agencies and units in the vertical sectors to serve as a basis for arranging and establishing new Party organizations in the locality; requested the Central Government to promptly issue official regulations on the functions, tasks, staffing, and job positions of advisory and assisting agencies of Party Committees, specialized agencies and public service units under the People's Committees of new communes and wards; the regulations on standards, conditions for titles, salary scales and regimes, the policies on salaries and allowances for cadres and civil servants at the new commune level...; the arrangement and appointment of cadres of the Military Command of wards and communes and the organization of militia forces after the merger of administrative units.

At the working session

In his concluding remarks, State President Luong Cuong highly appreciated the proactive, close and serious coordination between the Standing Boards of Hung Yen Provincial Party Committee and Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee, between the departments, branches and sectors of the two provinces in concretizing the resolutions and conclusions of the Central Committee in accordance with the practical situation of the locality; the implementation of the Project on the arrangement of administrative units; in the work of arranging personnel and preparing documents for the new Provincial Party Congress after the merger, creating high unity in the Party Committee, among the contingent of cadres, Party members and people of the two provinces.

State President Luong Cuong delivers a speech at the working session

The State President emphasized that the implementation of the 11th Central Resolution has been led and directed by the Standing Boards of the Party Committees of the two provinces to be carried out seriously, closely, and effectively, without affecting the identified political goals and tasks.

Along with that, the Standing Boards of the Party Committees of the two provinces have paid attention to leading the implementation of socio-economic development tasks; the Party building and rectification work has been promoted; national defense - security, order and social safety have been ensured, creating high consensus and unity in the political system and among the people.

Hung Yen Provincial Party Secretary and Thai Binh Provincial Party Secretary attend the working session

The State President assessed that the merger of Hung Yen and Thai Binh provinces is not simply an administrative merger, but a strategic step, a breakthrough choice; at the same time, he emphasized that if it is carried out closely and effectively, it will contribute to creating a new, stronger provincial administrative unit with enough capacity to compete in the Red River Delta and the whole country.

Delegates attend the working session

In order to continue to effectively implement the 11th Central Resolution, President Luong Cuong requested the Provincial Party Committees of the two provinces to continue to thoroughly grasp and closely follow the Central's directive documents; proactively grasp, organize leadership, closely direct, and well perform the remaining contents according to the determined plan.

The implementation of the organization and arrangement of the government apparatus must ensure streamlining, strong performance, efficient, and effective operations, close to the people; the organization of the apparatus must operate effectively, following the determined goals, objectives, and plans.

The implementation of the arrangement of the apparatus and cadres must ensure transparency, the arrangement and assignment of cadres at all levels to the right people, the right jobs; ensuring sufficient capacity to complete tasks; creating high solidarity and unity within the organization.

The process of perfecting the staff and reorganizing the apparatus must ensure the regular and continuous operation of agencies and organizations, absolutely without interruption, without affecting the activities of the Party, government, people and businesses.

Regarding the preparation for the Party congresses at all levels according to Directive No. 45-CT/TW dated April 14, 2025 of the Politburo, the State President requested the Standing Boards of the Party Committees of Hung Yen and Thai Binh provinces to continue to coordinate closely, prepare well and improve the quality of the content of documents; in which, it is necessary to pay attention to thoroughly grasping and supplementing the orientations and new points of the Central Committee in the draft Political Report, in the work of Party building, in the 10-year socio-economic development strategy (2021-2030), and the 5-year socio-economic development orientation (2026-2030); at the same time, the congress documents must also demonstrate the crystallization of the intelligence, will, and development aspirations of the new province. Regarding personnel work, it is necessary to continue reviewing the quality of the staff, in which it is necessary to pay special attention to the standards of cadres and Party committee members; not lower the standards because of the structure; uphold the principles, the arrangement of staff must be objective, impartial, and harmonious between the two localities.

In addition, the State President emphasized the need to strengthen the inspection and supervision of the implementation of the Resolution of the 11th Central Conference; at the same time, it is necessary to make effective measures in the management of public finance and assets, avoiding wastefullness, loss, and negativity in the process of the organization and apparatus arrangement.

Regarding proposals and recommendations, the State President assigned the Working Group to fully absorb opinions; any content that falls under the responsibility and authority of the Central Committees, ministries and branches, will be forwarded to relevant agencies for research, consideration and handling according to their authority.

The State President believes that with high political determination, and the spirit of "innovation, dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility", Hung Yen province (new) merged from Hung Yen and Thai Binh will rise to become a bright spot for development in the country.