After three years promoting administrative reform and improving the effectiveness of political system, Lao Cai has gained some achievements and positive changes in reforming administrative procedures. The government has provided 57,788 million VND to support administrative reform program from 2011 to 2013. There are 9/19 (equal to 36%) specialized offices at province level perform one-stop shop (OSS) mechanism, 9/9 (equal to 100%) offices at district level perform OSS mechanism, 154/164 (equal to 93.9%) offices at commune level perform OSS mechanism.

Supervisors at different levels and departments of Lao Cai province have checked and evaluated organizational situation and activities at provincial and district specialized offices are silmutaneously performed. Up to now, there are 29 departments, boards, branches and offices in Lao Cai province, including 19 specialized organizations and 10 specilaized organizations of State management at the people’s committee of Lao Cai province. There are 154 divisions, boards, agencies directly under department and branch level. At district level, the people’s committee of Lao Cai province has formed Division for Ethnic Affairs, directly under the people’s committees of nine districts and cities (directly under province) and renamed Division of Industry and Trade into Division of Economic Infrastructure. There are 117 divisions in nine districts and cities (directly under province).

Structural organization reform in State owned organizations is promoted at different levels and departments by checking the position, role, responsibility, right, structural organization and personnel of the people’s committee and specialized offices at province level and district level; gradually consolidate the structural organization to avoid overlap in function and responsibility and to promote efficiency of the organization which is closely to the establishment of personnel plan for state own administrative offices at provincial level;  raise the effectiveness of state management in all areas. Up to June 2013, the people’s committee of Lao Cai province has controlled and enforced the rules regarding function, responsibility and right of 12 offices and consolidated functions, responsibility and right of seven centers and offices at departments, boards and branches of Lao Cai province.

The pilot performance of no people’s committee at district and ward level of Lao Cai province is done at eight districts and 12 wards. One district and 13 communes have run the model of uniforming the title “secretary” and “chairman” as the government requires.

The project focuses on improving the quality of staffs and officials as well as the training and fostering of officials in state administrative organizations. There are positive changes in the quality of staffs and officials. The plan making, training, fostering, managing and using of staffs, officials, and civil servants and the mission rotation are silmutaneously performed. The quality of staffs and civil servants are raised.

Public finance reform at State administrative offices is well performed with the model of leaving the whole work to officers at personnel offices and administrative management cost offices. The responsibility to self-control and take charge of the organization, personnel, finance is assigned, making a great contribution to changes in management methods at which saving is encouraged and wasting is avoided, especially in public organizations.

In administrative modernization process at State administrative offices, information technology infrastructure at provincial level has been silmutaneously built, basicly meeting the requirements of news and data transmission for applying information technology in provincial offices. Applying information technology in activities of State orgnizations to support the people and entrepreneurs and to meet the social requirements in Lao Cai province is increasingly improved and spread.

In no. 27 project many important tasks are conducted. There are positive changes in administriative reform from provincial level to basic level at all aspects which are model reform, administrative structure reform, staffs’ quality improvement, public finance reform and state administrative modernization. Awareness of staffs and civil servant is better; they become more responsible to their given tasks and produce more effective results. Facilities and equipment are better. Administrative structure is effective and convenient for working; management efficiency is dramatically increased; administrative regulation is reformed and basically completed; there are changes in content and forms of document promulgation; many administrative procedures and regulations are simplized and publicized which helps save time and makes it convenient for both administrative organizations and the people, making a contribution to the positive changes in serving motto. As a result, an impetus for outstanding movements in the process of administrative reform of Lao Cai province is created.

However, there are some weaknesses in performing the Project such as a low level of sustainability with inconvenience when applied and implemented in reality; irregular and asynchronous propaganda campaign; simple, cursory, ambiguous and ineffective propaganda content. Policies are not attractive enough to attract excellent staffs and experts to work and devote for the province. The structure of workforce in political structure is cumbersome and overlapping with a part of disqualified and inefficient staffs.

In the future, administrative reform program is continued to be done in the political system of the whole province, focusing on below content: reforming the administrative procedures, reforming the structural organizations, improving the quality of staffs and civil servants. In detail, reforming financial model for administrative organizations and public service organizations, reforming assignment and personnel, and modernizing the administration, especially the application of information technology in State and Fatherland Front organizations, unions and offices at different levels. Lao Cai attempts to successfully perform the strategy of developing the economy and society from 2011 to 2015 in order to turn administrative reform into a regular and core task of every organization in political system.