Official opening of information portal on more than 846,700 martyrs' graves

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and delegates press the button to launch the electronic information portal on martyrs, martyrs' graves, and martyrs' cemeteries. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA

Data on martyrs, martyrs' graves and martyrs' cemeteries have been digitized and made public on the website http://thongtinlietsi.gov.vn. Relatives and families of martyrs can access to look up, search for information, and see with their own eyes images of each martyrs' grave and cemetery.
This information was given at the Ceremony of Awarding the Certificate of National Merit and launching the Electronic Information Portal on Martyrs, Martyrs' Graves and Martyrs' Cemeteries organized by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Information and Communications, Vietnam Television in coordination with Vietnam Post Corporation on July 26 in Hanoi.
Implementing the direction of the Government, since the beginning of 2018, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Information and Communications, and the Ministry of National Defense have coordinated to develop and deploy a website to manage information on martyrs and martyrs' graves and synthesize it on the basis of a geographic information system to integrate and synchronize the martyrs' database and combine socialization to have a common policy in caring for people with revolutionary contributions.
After nearly three months of implementation, Vietnam Post has collected information on over 846,700 martyrs' graves in over 3,000 martyrs' cemeteries. More than 2.6 million photos of martyrs' graves and martyrs' cemeteries have been taken by Vietnam Post staff. Through collecting data from detailed addresses, coordinates, and contact persons, Vietnam Post also compiled a list of over 53,000 unnamed martyrs' graves that need to be re-engraved; nearly 136,000 graves that need additional information.
Speaking at the ceremony, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc emphasized that the opening of the Electronic Information Portal on Martyrs, Martyrs' Graves and Martyrs' Cemeteries is an intellectual product of the Vietnamese people in the era of the 4.0 industrial revolution, which will help the authorities manage martyrs, martyrs' graves and martyrs' cemeteries. At the same time, it is an important information channel for people and martyrs' relatives to look up and exchange information about martyrs, thereby being able to visit martyrs' graves and martyrs' cemeteries through images, helping to shorten the geographical distance between relatives and families with martyrs' graves and martyrs' cemeteries.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed that the construction of the Electronic Information Portal has profound significance, demonstrating the Party and State's concern in paying tribute to heroic martyrs and taking better care of the spiritual life of martyrs' relatives.
With accurate information and images of each grave and martyr cemetery nationwide, the Electronic Information Portal for looking up martyrs, martyrs' graves and martyrs' cemeteries (address: http://thongtinlietsi.gov.vn) is now ready to serve a large number of people nationwide.
Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung hopes that the electronic information portal on martyrs, martyrs' graves, and martyrs' cemeteries will truly penetrate into life and become a useful information channel serving the management work of authorities and people, and will be a new feature in the cultural and spiritual life of the people and martyrs' relatives.
Mr. Pham Anh Tuan - Chairman of the Board of Members of Vietnam Post Corporation said: "With gratitude for the great sacrifices of the heroic martyrs for the cause of revolution, peace, independence and unification of the Fatherland, the cadres, civil servants and employees of Vietnam Post Corporation determined that this is not only a tribute to the heroic martyrs and their families, but also the social responsibility of the enterprise."./.