Lieutenant General Mai Hoang, Director of Ho Chi Minh City Public Security, announced this at a conference on the 90-day campaign to enrich and clean the national land database. The conference was organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and the Ministry of Public Security on the afternoon of 11/12.

The "enriching and cleaning the national land database" campaign was a comprehensive review and standardization of land data nationwide. It ran for 90 days from september to the end of november. Its goal was to ensure land information was accurate, complete, clean, and up-to-date, synchronizing it with the national residential database to enhance transparent management and better serve citizens.

According to General Hoang, Ho Chi Minh City collaborated with Department C06 of the Ministry of Public Security starting in july 2024 to synchronize over 2,5 million pieces of the city's land data with the national residential database. During this campaign, the city further cleaned over 3,8 million land plots and integrated them into the system.

Currently, over 447,000 verified land plots await re-authentication. This is mainly due to unissued certificates, inability to contact owners, or ownership by agencies and organizations.

Lieutenant General Mai Hoang speaking at the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment on the afternoon of 11/12. *Photo: Linh Dan*

Leveraging the cleaned data, Ho Chi Minh City Public Security pioneered a pilot program to utilize land database information for processing online residency registration procedures via the national public service portal.

Consequently, residents no longer need to provide documents proving legal accommodation. Local police also avoid manual verification steps, significantly shortening the processing time for residency procedures compared to manual methods.

By 1/7, through the application of the land database, Ho Chi Minh City Public Security had processed over 10,000 permanent and temporary residency applications for residents.

Since 1/7, the function connecting to and utilizing land data for residency registration has been temporarily suspended for further technical improvements. As a result, local police cannot directly access the land database to verify legal accommodation information for residency applications.

10,000 permanent and temporary residency applications in Ho Chi Minh City did not require submitting land use rights certificates to prove legal accommodation. *Photo: Nguyen Dong*

Addressing these issues, Mr. Hoang proposed the swift completion and official deployment of the database. This would allow residency registration officers to directly query the land database using professional software when verifying legal accommodation, rather than relying on documents provided by residents.

He also recommended adding and upgrading several utilities and applications on the national public service portal. For example: integrating an automatic cross-check function for land and residential data, enabling police to detect discrepancies immediately upon receipt.

Additionally, he suggested adding a function to automatically mark digitized certificates and a "land plot lookup" utility using identity card numbers or land use rights certificates. This would help residents quickly retrieve valid information for declaring their place of residency.

Over the past 90 days, units from the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment transferred over 2 million "accurate, complete, clean, and live" land plots to Department C06 of the Ministry of Public Security for integration. The remaining 40 million land plots are also ready for handover and further integration into VNeID.