The land database building campaign is being implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (MAE) in coordination with the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and localities to realize the Politburo’s Resolution 57 on breakthroughs in science, technology, and national digital transformation.

Mai Van Phan, Deputy Director of the Land Management Bureau (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment), said the land database is a crucial foundation for all government levels to serve people faster and more transparently.

In establishing the two-tier local government model, complete and accurate land data will enable grassroots governments to process administrative procedures in communes, wards and towns, and people will no longer need to travel much. Records can be handled electronically, thus saving time and money.

The land database building campaign aims for three goals:

First, creation of a modern data foundation serving e-government and transparent land management with clear responsibility.

Second, better public service quality, enabling people and businesses to handle land procedures more conveniently.

Third, data connection between the land database and other national databases, enabling agencies to use it efficiently and serve people better.

Over many years, land user information has been formed across different periods, tied to identity documents like ID cards and citizen IDs. With changes in legal regulations, storage technology, and management methods, data in some places lacks uniformity and even contains discrepancies.

“There are cases where people have transferred, gifted, inherited, or transacted land via handwritten papers without completing legal procedures or changed land use purposes but failed to update management records. This causes mismatches between land data and user information, requiring review and supplementation,” Phan explained.

With the requirement to complete the national land database before 2026, this campaign is a key step to standardize information, ensuring data is complete, accurate, and shareable among state agencies.

Land certificates in VNeID 

On October 21, the Administrative Police Department for Social Order (C06) said that MPS is coordinating with MAE to build features on the VNeID app, allowing people to provide, check, and verify residential land and house ownership information through the national population database without submitting certificate copies.

This is one step in the national land database "enrichment and cleaning" campaign being implemented nationwide.

According to C06, after establishing the two-tier local government model, many land tasks have been transferred to commune, ward, and special zone governments. This requires a transparent land database so that localities have full management tools to resolve administrative procedures.

The Ministry of Public Security decided that the campaign would create "accurate - complete - clean - live - unified - shared" data. This will be a tool for agencies to resolve land procedures for people and businesses via one-stop and interlinked mechanisms.

For smooth campaign progress, MPS encourages people to cooperate in providing, supplementing, and verifying information with management agencies to "enrich and clean" data.

This is an important step for the state and people to jointly complete the national land database, serving land administrative procedures and other online public services in the digital environment.

5 requirements of the land database campaign:

First, the national land database must be reviewed and completed following the principle “accurate – complete – clean – live – unified – shared,” ensuring synchronization with the two-tier local government model.

Second, data must be centralized and unified at the central level, connected and shared with the national population database, national data center, and the entire political system, from Government, Party agencies, NA, and Fatherland Front to Courts to the Procuracy.

Third, restructure administrative processes and procedures, cut paper records, and reuse information in national databases to quickly resolve land and attached asset procedures.

Fourth, ensure information safety and cybersecurity throughout building, operation, and data connection.

Fifth, implementation must be decisive, scientific, with “clear people, clear tasks, clear timelines, clear results, clear responsibility, clear authority”.

MPS is drafting a Decree amending and supplementing several articles of Decree 69/2024 on electronic identification and authentication. The notable new content is MPS plans to integrate and update 188 individual documents and 390 organizational documents into VNeID.

Per the draft, 188 documents planned for integration and update on VNeID include citizen IDs, identification, residence; entry-exit; road vehicle management; business; medical examination and treatment, vehicle inspection, publishing, pharmaceuticals, real estate, university diplomas, master’s and doctoral degrees; land use rights certificates, birth and death certificates; passports, visas, treatment transfer papers, discharge papers, etc.

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