National Assembly reviews and approves draft resolution to establish Đồng Nai City as a centrally administered city in the second part of the first session

The National Assembly reviewed and approved the draft resolution to establish Đồng Nai City as a centrally administered city during the second part of the first session.

Continuing the program of the first session, on the morning of 12 April, with 457 of 457 delegates voting in favor, the National Assembly approved changes to the program for the second part of the first session (April 20–23).

Program adjustments and additional items

The National Assembly approved adjustments to the first session’s program. Accordingly, it added four items for consideration and approval:

• The draft National Assembly resolution on a number of breakthrough mechanisms and policies for the development of Vietnamese culture.
• The draft National Assembly resolution on piloting the institution of public lawyers.
• The draft National Assembly resolution on establishing Đồng Nai City as a centrally administered city.
• The draft National Assembly resolution on mechanisms and policies specific to handling land-law violations by organizations and individuals that occurred before the 2024 Land Law took effect, and solutions to continue to unlock difficulties and obstacles for lingering projects.

The National Assembly adjusted the timing of related contents to fit and allocated additional items into sessions that still had reserve time. It will also work an extra half day, expected to adjourn on the afternoon of 23 April.

Background: Government proposal and administrative plan

Earlier, at the second plenary session (10 April), the Legal and Judicial Committee of the National Assembly considered the Government’s report on the proposal to establish 10 wards in Đồng Nai province and the proposal to establish Đồng Nai City as a centrally administered city.

The Government proposed establishing 10 wards—Long Thành, Nhơn Trạch, Trảng Bom, Xuân Lộc, Dầu Giây, Tân Phú, Trị An, Đồng Phú, Tân Khai and Lộc Ninh—based on the current natural area and population of the ten communes with the same names.

Simultaneously, the establishment of Đồng Nai City under central administration would be based on the entire natural area of 12,737.18 km² and a population of 4,491,408 people of Đồng Nai province.

Expected changes after rearrangement

After rearrangement, Đồng Nai City would not change in area or population, but the commune-level administrative structure would adjust to:

• Increase the number of wards from 23 to 33.
• Reduce the number of communes from 72 to 62.
• Raise the urbanization rate to 54.10%.

Assessment and standards for centrally administered city status

According to the Government’s assessment, establishing the 10 wards is a necessary condition to complete the standards for establishing a centrally administered city.

The Government noted that the 10 communes proposed to become wards all meet 5/5 ward standards. For Đồng Nai City under central administration, the locality has met 5/7 standards and will complete the remaining two standards after the Standing Committee of the National Assembly reviews and provides opinions.

Party guidance

At the second meeting of the 14th Party Central Committee, the establishment of Đồng Nai City under central administration was approved in principle.

The Central Committee directed the Politburo to guide the Government to finalize the proposal and documents as required for presentation at the first session of the 16th National Assembly for consideration and decision.