On July 17, 2025, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Decision No. 1559/QĐ-TTg to transfer Mr. Tran Duc Thang, Member of the Party Central Committee and Standing Deputy Inspector General of the Government Inspectorate, to take up a new assignment at the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, concurrently appointing him as Acting Minister.

Standing Deputy Inspector General of the Government Inspectorate Tran Duc Thang was assigned by the Prime Minister as Acting Minister of Agriculture and Environment, effective from July 17, 2025

Mr. Tran Duc Thang was born in 1973 in Vinh Phuc province (now part of Phu Tho province). He previously served as Deputy Director General and then Director General of the Department of Public Asset Management under the Ministry of Finance. From 2018 to 2022, he worked at the Central Inspection Commission, where he held the positions of Member and subsequently Deputy Chairman. In October 2022, the Politburo assigned him as Secretary of the Hai Duong Provincial Party Committee for the 2020–2025 term.

Most recently, he was transferred, assigned, and appointed as Standing Deputy Inspector General of the Government Inspectorate, effective July 1, 2025.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment was established in March 2025 through the merger of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

The Ministry is responsible for state management in the following fields: agriculture, forestry, salt production, fisheries, irrigation, disaster prevention and control, rural development, land, water resources, mineral resources and geology, environment, meteorology and hydrology, climate change, surveying and mapping, remote sensing, and integrated management of marine and island resources and environmental protection.

Minh Thao