Nghe An: Orientation for the Arrangement of Public Service Units, Schools, and Healthcare Facilities

Regarding the arrangement of public service units in the field of education:

The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee emphasized the thorough implementation of Resolution No. 71-CC’s Resolution, dated August 22, 2025, of the Politburo on breakthroughs in education and training development. Essentially, existing high schools, secondary schools, primary schools, inter-level schools, and public kindergartens are to be maintained; in cases where arrangement or adjustment is necessary, careful study must be conducted to select the optimal option, ensuring convenience and meeting the needs of the people and students; and the socialization of education should be promoted in areas with sufficient conditions.

Vocational education centers and continuing education centers are to be merged into vocational training centers equivalent to the high school level, under the Department of Education and Training, to provide public services across inter-communal or ward areas.

The province shall have a maximum of no more than three vocational schools to train skilled labor for socio-economic development and to attract investment locally (excluding schools that are self-financing for regular expenditures or higher).

Regarding the arrangement of public service units in the field of health:

The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee requested the thorough implementation of Resolution No. 72-CC’s Resolution, dated September 9, 2025, of the Politburo on several breakthrough measures to enhance protection, care, and improvement of people’s health. The aim is to consolidate a modern preventive health system with sufficient capacity for surveillance, early warning, timely epidemic control, and proactive organization of disease prevention activities.

Existing provincial-level public hospitals shall be maintained; socialization of healthcare services should be promoted in areas with sufficient conditions. At the provincial level, there must be at least one hospital with specialized capacity; there must also be a geriatric hospital or a general hospital with a geriatric department.

At the same time, commune- and ward-level health stations under the People’s Committees of the communes/wards and basic medical examination points shall be established based on the previous commune-level health stations to meet the needs of disease prevention, primary healthcare, and basic medical examination and treatment for the population in the area. District-level general hospitals and health centers (previously) shall be assigned to organize care, medical examination, and treatment services across inter-communal and ward areas.

Regarding the arrangement of public service units in other sectors:

The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee clarified the principle: Based on Resolution No. 19-CC’s Resolution, dated October 25, 2017, of the 6th Plenum of the 12th Central Committee, and the guiding documents of the Government, as well as instructions from the sectoral ministries, review and arrange public service units under management with the orientation of being streamlined, operating effectively and efficiently, ensuring the principle that a single public service unit can provide multiple public services of the same type, in order to drastically reduce administrative heads, overcome overlap, fragmentation, and duplication of functions and tasks.

For public service units under the provincial People’s Committee and under provincial-level departments and sectors, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee oriented: study, review, and propose the arrangement and reorganization of public service units under the provincial People’s Committee according to the principles mentioned above.

Continue to study, review, arrange, and reorganize public service units under provincial departments. Each department (except the Department of Education and Training, and the Department of Health) shall maintain only one public service unit performing state management functions; other public service units shall be self-financing for regular expenditures or higher.

At the commune/ward level, based on practical requirements, inter-communal or inter-ward project management boards or commune-level project management boards may be established if necessary. These project management boards shall operate under financial autonomy and self-financing for operational costs. At the same time, study the establishment of one commune-level public service unit providing essential public services to local residents (in areas such as culture, sports, information, communications, environment, agriculture, etc.); promote socialization where conditions allow.

Additionally, in Plan No.01, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee also oriented the arrangement of state-owned enterprises, including restructuring, equitization, and divestment of state capital according to the principle: State-owned enterprises shall focus only on key, essential, strategic sectors; important localities and national defense and security; and sectors necessary where enterprises from other economic sectors do not invest.

The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee assigned the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Provincial People’s Committee to lead the provincial People’s Committee in directing specialized agencies to coordinate and advise the provincial People’s Committee in building comprehensive proposals and plans for the arrangement and streamlining of internal organizational structures of departments, boards, sectors, agencies, units at the provincial level; public service units, schools, healthcare facilities; and state-owned enterprises under its leadership and management, and the implementation roadmap according to the orientations of the Central Steering Committee and Government Steering Committee, to submit to the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee before October 20, 2025, for consideration, approval, or submission to the competent authority for approval and implementation.