As Vietnam is moving forward with plans to restructure its administrative apparatus, the tourism industry finds itself presented with an unprecedented golden opportunity to forge inter-regional connections as well as drive growth in a new era – that of the nation’s rise.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is gradually realising its 100-year vision with the goal of becoming a developed, high-income country, and one of the first steps in this journey is the reform of the state administrative apparatus, in the expectation that the new system will operate more efficiently and better serve the people.

The Department of Survey, Mapping and Geographic Information Vietnam under the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment will complete and release an 1:1,000,000-scale administrative map of Vietnam online and in digital *.pdf format once the National Assembly’s Resolution on the reorganisation of provincial-level administrative units in 2025 takes effect.

VOV.VN - The National Assembly on June 12 approved a resolution on the reorganization of provincial-level administrative units, reducing the total number of provinces and centrally-run cities across Vietnam to 34.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang, Politburo member, President of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA), received Danish Ambassador to Vietnam Nicolai Prytz in Hanoi on June 11, during which the two sides discussed cooperation orientations in modernising public administration.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s new two-tier local government system is expected to start operating from July 1, 2025 after the National Assembly approves the amended Law on Organisation of Local Government, slated for June 16.

The National Public Service Portal will be upgraded into an unified digital “one-stop-shop” platform for all online public services, aiming to streamline administrative procedures for citizens and businesses, said Nguyen Duy Hoang, Director General of the Administrative Procedure Control Agency under the Government Office.

Vietnam’s National Action Centre for Toxic Chemicals and Environmental Treatment and the US Defence Threat Reduction Agency’s On-Site Inspection and Building Capacity Directorate have signed an administrative agreement to boost Vietnam’s capacity to respond to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear incidents.

VOV.VN - A delegation of nearly 50 representatives from Vietnamese agencies, businesses, and agricultural associations is travelling to the United States to seek trade promotion opportunities and boost imports of key US agricultural products from June 1 - 7.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on May 22 signed an official dispatch, ordering ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, and chairpersons of centrally-run cities and provinces to expedite the simplification of administrative procedures.