Regulation No. 377-QD/TW on decentralization of cadre management, planning, appointment, resignation, and dismissal of cadres

On behalf of the Politburo, Politburo member and Standing member of the Secretariat Tran Cam Tu signed and issued Regulation No. 377-QD/TW on decentralization of cadre management and planning, appointment, nomination, temporary suspension, removal from office, resignation, and dismissal of cadres (referred to as Regulation No. 377).

Issuing Regulation No. 377-QD/TW on decentralization of cadre management, planning, appointment, resignation, and dismissal of cadres. Photo: Khieu Tu/VNA

The Regulation includes 9 Chapters and 57 Articles.

Article 1 stipulates the scope of regulation and applicable subjects: This Regulation stipulates the purpose, requirements, principles, contents, responsibilities, and authority in cadre management and the principles, responsibilities, authorities, standards, conditions, procedures, and processes for planning, appointing, reappointing, recommending candidates, re-electing, designating, transferring, seconding, temporarily suspending work, removing from office, resigning, and dismissing cadres.

This regulation applies to Party committees, Party organizations, agencies, units and cadres, civil servants and public employees in the political system.

Purpose and requirements (Article 2): To specify the Party's policies, resolutions and conclusions, ensuring strictness, democracy, objectivity, publicity and transparency in personnel work and personnel management.

Ensure synchronization, unity, comprehensiveness, and connectivity in the Party's personnel work; regularly, objectively, impartially, and accurately evaluate cadres; properly plan, select, and arrange cadres; effectively implement the "in, out, up, down" mechanism in personnel work; meet the requirements of tasks and practical situations.

Strengthen the Party's leadership over personnel work; ensure continuous and steady transition between generations, proactively build a team of leaders and managers at all levels, especially at the strategic level, with leaders who have sufficient qualities, capacity and prestige, equal to the tasks in the new period, and are closely connected with the people.

Decentralization of staff management

Chapter II stipulates the Decentralization of staff management; in which Article 6 on "Management and decision-making responsibilities for staff" includes 5 clauses.

Accordingly, the Party Central Committee orients and decides on important policies and contents on personnel work and cadres according to the Working Regulations of the Party Central Committee.

The Politburo and the Secretariat manage and directly decide on a number of contents in personnel work; assign and delegate to Party committees and organizations at all levels to decide on a number of contents in personnel work for leadership positions under the Central management and other personnel positions; authorize the President, the Prime Minister, the National Assembly Chairman, and the Standing Secretariat to decide on a number of stages and contents in personnel work.

Party committees, party organizations, and heads of agencies and units directly manage cadres working and party activities in localities, agencies and units, including cadres under the management of superiors, and are responsible to competent authorities for the scope and content of decentralized and authorized authority in cadre management. Party committees, party organizations, and heads are responsible for periodically reporting to superiors on the situation of cadres and cadre work under the management authority of superiors according to current regulations on decentralized management.

In case a person simultaneously holds many positions under the management authority of different levels, the highest management level of the position shall consider and decide.

Party committees, party organizations, heads of agencies and units lead and direct the development of plans and organize inspections and supervision of the vote of confidence according to regulations; consider, decide or propose rewards, discipline and implement regimes and policies according to Party regulations, State laws, the Charter of the Vietnam Fatherland Front , socio-political organizations; temporarily suspend work, remove from office, resign, dismiss, remove from planning cadres under decentralized management or within the assigned scope of responsibility.

From Article 7 to Article 17, it stipulates the responsibilities and powers in decentralizing cadre management of: the Politburo, the Secretariat, provincial and municipal Party Committees, the Central Military Commission, the Central Public Security Party Committee, the Party Committees of Central Party agencies, the Government Party Committee, the National Assembly Party Committee, the Fatherland Front Party Committee, central mass organizations, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy, the State Audit, ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, central agencies and units, socio-political organizations, mass organizations (comprehensive leadership by the Party Committee), the Central Organization Committee, the Central Inspection Committee, the Central Propaganda and Education Committee, the Central Internal Affairs Committee, the Central Policy and Strategy Committee and the Central Party Office.

Only plan for higher positions, each leadership and management position plans no more than three officers.

Chapter III on Personnel Planning clearly states the planning principles as follows:

Pay attention to quality, ensure balance, harmony, rationality, and connection in the stages of personnel work; between planning and training and fostering; between assessment and planning, mobilization, rotation, appointment and arrangement, and use of cadres; between planned cadres and incumbent cadres; between the source of cadres at the central level and at localities, areas and fields of work; between the source of on-site cadres and the source of cadres from other places. Strive to plan according to the structure of three age groups, the proportion of young cadres, female cadres, ethnic minority cadres, cadres with scientific and technological qualifications appropriate to the locality and field of work.

Planning for Party committees at all levels must be linked with planning for leadership and management; planning for Party committee positions must be used as the basis for planning for leadership and management positions; planning for lower levels must be used as the basis for planning for higher levels; closely linking planning for agencies, units, and localities in the political system with planning for strategic-level cadres.

Only plan for higher positions, each leadership and management position plans no more than three cadres, one cadre plans no more than three positions at the same level. Do not carry out planning at the same time as proposing appointments and introducing cadres to run for election.

The following chapters of the Regulations deal with: Appointment and introduction of candidates for election; reappointment, introduction of re-election; transfer and secondment of officials; removal from office, resignation, and dismissal of officials; authority of the head in temporarily suspending subordinate officials from work and implementation provisions.

This Regulation takes effect from the date of signing (October 8, 2025) and replaces Regulation No. 80-QD/TW dated August 18, 2022; Regulation No. 50-QD/TW dated December 27, 2021; Regulation No. 41-QD/TW dated November 3, 2021; Regulation No. 148-QD/TW dated May 23, 2024; Conclusion Notice No. 20-TB/TW dated September 8, 2022 and Conclusion No. 165-KL/TW dated June 7, 2025 of the Politburo.

Issued together with Regulation No. 377 are 6 Appendices on: Cadre positions under the Central management; Planning subjects; Planning process for leadership and management positions under the management of the Politburo and Secretariat; Appointment process and introduction of candidates for leadership positions under the Central management from local human resources; Positions with authority to temporarily suspend work for subordinate cadres; List of personnel records for planning, appointment, nomination for candidacy, reappointment, and nomination for re-election.

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