Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the Government’s regular April meeting on 6 May, announcing plans to commence and inaugurate 80 major projects to mark 80 years of the August Revolution and National Day. These initiatives also commemorate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the South’s liberation and national reunification.

In April, the Government, ministries, sectors and localities continued to reorganise the political system and build a two-level local administration model.

The NA's 9th session holds particular importance as it is aimed at promptly institutionalising the policies and conclusions of the Party Central Committee and its Politburo and Secretariat, especially those recently adopted at the 11th plenum of the Party Central Committee.

Currently, in Vietnam, there are more than 670 SOEs, with about two-thirds wholly owned by the state. In the remaining ones, the state holds more than 50% of the charter capital.

In the optimistic scenario, the apparatus streamlining efforts will reduce administrative time and costs, and legal policies will be eased, providing vital support for the real estate market.

Party General Secretary To Lam chaired the second meeting of the Central Steering Committee for summarising the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW of the 12th Party Central Committee in Hanoi on January 21.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Tran Thanh Man on December 19 stressed the need to step up dissemination to create consensus and unity in the process of rearranging and streamlining public employee positions.

The central steering committee for the review of the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW, issued by the 12th Party Central Committee in 2017, on December 5 requested all units to complete their proposals for restructuring and streamlining the organisational apparatus in December 2024, in preparation for extraordinary meetings of the Party Central Committee and the National Assembly, scheduled to take place in February 2025.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is researching and developing a policy that is strong enough and outstanding for redundant officials, public employees, and civil servants during the process of streamlining the organisational apparatus, Chief of the Office, and spokesperson of the ministry Vu Dang Minh told reporters at the Government’s monthly regular press conference on December 7.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired a meeting in Hanoi on May tk88 between permanent Government members and the central steering committee for the reform of wage and social insurance policies and the one on benefits for national contributors.