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Vietnam’s ruling party charts new phase of administrative overhaul

The Communist Party says the July 20 to 24 third plenum will shift reforms from cutting bureaucracy to building capacity to govern, with plans spanning land law, growth model changes, and national security.

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Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party of Vietnam has used its third plenum of the 14th Central Committee, held July 20 to 24, to outline the next phase of a major administrative overhaul, as the country moves from “streamlining the apparatus” to strengthening the capacity to govern, according to SCMP Economy.

The agenda included 13 major items covering the development model, land law, and national security, organized around General Secretary To Lam’s “four strategic shifts”: improving party leadership capacity and the state’s operating quality; unifying governance of development space and national resources; shifting growth toward productivity, technology, and human capital; and moving from reactive crisis management toward prevention and resilience.

SCMP Economy reports the planned approach is designed to support a “developmental state” that steers growth through coordinated planning rather than leaving it entirely to markets, while positioning the first shift on party leadership as the hinge for the other changes.

The outlet also notes the reforms have already passed a first test in the past 12 months by restructuring the government footprint, including reducing provinces and centrally governed cities from 63 to 34, abolishing the district tier, and consolidating commune-level units, alongside nearly 210,000 civil servants and public employees taking early retirement or severance; the plenum’s second test will be whether the new governance machinery can perform effectively.

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