Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 6 presided over the inaugural meeting of the Steering Committee tasked with conducting a review of the 20-year Government apparatus model from the 12th to 15th tenures. As head of the Steering Committee, PM Chinh underlined the importance of reforming the Government's organisation and operations. According to the PM, the objective is to create a streamlined, efficient, and effective apparatus by reducing the number of ministries and ministerial-level agencies, promoting rational decentralisation between central and local authorities, and ultimately building a people-oriented, law-governed, professional, and modern state administrative apparatus. This reformed structure should ensure that the Government remains the highest state administrative body, exercising executive power and serving as the executive body of the National Assembly.Source: Vietnam News Agency