The evaluation of administrative reform results in 2024
The Government's Steering Committee for Administrative Reform on January 15, held its ninth meeting to evaluate the results of administrative reform in 2024 and deploy directions and tasks for administrative reform in 2025. The meeting was connected online to provinces and cities across the country. Comrade Nguyen Hoa Binh, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister of the Government, Deputy Head of the Government's Administrative Reform Steering Committee chaired the meeting at the Central bridge point. At the Hung Yen bridge point the conference saw the presence of Comrade Nguyen Duy Hung, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, First Deputy Head of the Provincial Administrative Reform Steering Committee.
Delegates attend the meeting at the Hung Yen bridge point
In 2024, with the attention, close and drastic direction of the Government, the Prime Minister, and the strong participation of ministries, branches, localities, people and businesses, the review and handling of difficulties and shortcomings in administrative reform have been actively implemented, contributing to promoting administrative reform and improving the business environment. Institutional reform and administrative procedure reform continue to receive attention. The Government and the Prime Minister have spent time listening to and meeting with people and the business community to direct the study and handling of feedback and recommendations on mechanisms, policies, APs, etc.
During the year, 13 ministries and branches implemented a plan to simplify 313 APs and citizen papers related to population management in 35 legal documents. The arrangement, consolidation of the organizational apparatus and the completion of regulations on job positions in agencies and organizations in the political system, and the reform of salary policies continue to have clear changes, achieving positive results. In 2024, Hue city will be newly established under the Central Government; 38 district-level administrative units (ADUs) and 1,178 commune-level ADUs will be arranged. After the arrangement, 9 district-level units and 563 commune-level units will be reduced; at the same time, 137 urban ADUs will be newly established and upgraded to promote the speed of urbanization...
Along with that, the task of building and developing e-Government and digital Government will continue to be directed by the Government and the Prime Minister for ministries, branches and localities to implement synchronously and drastically. From January 1 to December 20, 2024, the number of electronic documents sent and received on the national document interconnection axis was over 12.2 million documents, an increase of more than 4 million documents compared to 2023; to date, there have been more than 46.5 million documents sent and received on the national document interconnection axis, an increase of more than 18.3 million documents compared to 2023. The rate of online records of ministries and branches reached 59.57% (an increase of nearly 2 times compared to 2023); of localities reached 56% (an increase of 1.92 times compared to 2023). The rate of digitization of records and results of handling administrative procedures at ministries and branches reached 61.4% and at localities reached 67.46%.
At the meeting, delegates analyzed, discussed and clarified many issues related to the construction and development of e-Government and Digital Government; building a national database; improving the quality and efficiency of handling administrative procedures to serve people and businesses; providing online public services at localities...
Concluding the meeting, Comrade Nguyen Hoa Binh, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister of the Government, Deputy Head of the Government's Steering Committee for Administrative Reform, requested: Ministries, branches and localities thoroughly grasp, strictly, comprehensively, synchronously and effectively implement the State Administrative Reform Master Program for the period 2021-2030; closely follow the Party and Government's policies on judicial reform to effectively implement assigned tasks; continue to promote the role and enhance the responsibility of heads of ministries, branches and localities in leading and directing the implementation of administrative reform tasks; synchronously and effectively implement the task of arranging the apparatus of State administrative agencies to ensure urgency, without interruption or omission of work; focus on removing “bottlenecks” in implementing administrative reform; strengthen decentralization, delegation of authority, and individualization of responsibilities associated with inspection and supervision.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh assigned specific tasks to ministries, branches, and localities in improving the effectiveness of administrative reform and requested members of the Steering Committee, ministries, branches, and localities to proactively coordinate closely in the implementation of assigned tasks to promote administrative reform, improve the investment and business environment, and contribute to creating breakthroughs for the country's development...
