Minister of Public Security To Lam and Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Tran Hong Ha on December 29 connected the databases at a ceremony. 

Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung and Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung attended the event.

MONRE created the database about land in all 63 provinces and centrally run cities. By the end of 2022, the work had been completed in 309 of 705 districts, with 43 million land plots. The data has been in regular use at land registration offices.

The ministry said it has connected and shared 18 information fields with 56 of 63 cities/provinces, 309 units at district level, and 4,267 units at commune level, with over 24 million land plots. The figure is continuing to increase.

It has also joined forces with the Ministry of Construction (MOC), MPS and Vietnam Post to check and administer data about land, houses and addresses, connecting and authenticating with the national population database to serve state management and administrative procedures.

The ministry has also been running an electronic file system that handles records and digital signing, ensuring that handling of documents is done in real time. 

Its electronic document management system has handled 301,500 incoming documents and 69,400 outgoing documents. The number of electronic documents with digital signing is about 100 percent.

On July 1, 2021, the national database about population built by MPS was put into operation with 17 information fields of 98.7 million citizens. The digitized data is considered one of the national digital resources.

With this important database, MPS has granted personal ID numbers to 100 percent of citizens. It has also received more than 60 million dossiers on granting chip-based ID cards.

As the Law on Residence takes effect on January 1, the linkage of the two databases will help solve problems when implementing land-related administrative procedures.

MONRE said it would complete land database of 454/705 districts in populous areas by June 2023, and 550 districts by the end of the year.

Kien Trung