Khai trương hệ thống Cơ sở dữ liệu Quốc gia về dân cư và Căn cước công dân

The ceremony was broadcast live at the main bridge in Hanoi, 63 bridge points of the Public Security of provinces and cities and bridges extending to some communes and wards in Hanoi, Hung Yen, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City.

At the Nghe An Provincial Police bridge, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee attended.

Overview of the bridge at Nghe An Provincial Police. Photo: Pham Bang

The National Population Database System and the Citizen Identification Production, Issuance and Management System are 1 of 6 databases prioritized for deployment to create a foundation for e-Government development.

The construction of the National Population Database creates a foundation for modern state administrative management, applying information technology to handle administrative procedures for people and businesses, aiming to simplify administrative procedures, reduce citizen paperwork, reduce time and costs for handling administrative procedures, and improve the effectiveness of state management.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and leaders of the Party, State, ministries, departments and sectors visit the population digital map system at the National Population Data Center. Photo: VGP/Quang Hieu

Through the organization of collecting and updating basic information of citizens, a centralized and unified population database system will be created from the central to local levels for common use to provide complete, accurate and timely population information to serve state management, planning socio-economic development policies, and ensuring social security.

The two systems, when officially put into operation, will have a positive impact on many aspects of the country, helping to reduce paperwork costs, verification time and the State budget when building specialized databases and record keeping.

Preliminary calculations for the entire economy show that the National Population Database system will help reduce costs in terms of time spent preparing applications and declarations by nearly VND370 billion; not having to present applications and declarations will save more than VND4,200 billion/year; specialized databases will not have to enter citizen data, saving about VND246 billion. The total cost saved is VND4,864 billion.

General To Lam - Minister of Public Security speaking at the ceremony. Photo: VGP/Quang Hieu

For the Citizen Identification Card Production, Issuance and Management project, rolling fingerprints will be used instead of flat fingerprints; electronic chip cards will be used because of their high security and faster processing speed compared to other types, integrating many utilities during use; investing in fingerprint and facial recognition applications to serve the fight against crime and build a crime prevention library. The Ministry of Public Security strives to complete the goal of issuing 50 million cards to eligible cases before July 1, 2021.

According to the Law on Residence (amended), the role of household registration books and temporary residence books will cease when the national population databases and residence databases are completed and operated smoothly, and agencies, organizations and localities have effectively connected and communicated to ensure that only personal identification numbers can be used to identify personal information and information about a citizen's place of residence.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and delegates perform the inauguration ceremony of the National Population Database system and the Citizen Identification Card Production, Issuance and Management System. Photo: VGP/Quang Hieu

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and delegates perform the opening ceremony of the National Population Data Center. Photo: VGP/Quang Hieu

After pressing the system activation button, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Standing member of the Secretariat Vo Van Thuong witnessed leaders of ministries, departments, branches, localities and enterprises signing electronic commitments to join hands in connecting and sharing information databases and inaugurating the National Population Data Center.

Speaking at the ceremony, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said that the launch of the two systems demonstrated the great determination of the Government, ministries, branches and localities in building an e-Government, towards digital technology and digital economy. At the same time, it demonstrated the strong commitment of the Vietnamese Government to the international community and the people in building an action-oriented, honest and creative Government.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the ceremony. Photo: VGP/Quang Hieu

Appreciating the spirit, responsibility and efforts of the Ministry of Public Security as well as the active coordination of relevant ministries and branches, the head of the Government said that the opening of the two new systems is only an important initial result and there is still much work to be done ahead.

Therefore, the Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Public Security to continue to complete the two systems according to the set roadmap; Continue to coordinate with ministries, branches and localities to connect and share information databases to serve the socio-economic development process, better serving people and businesses.

Ministries and branches need to advise on perfecting the institutional system through implementing plans to simplify administrative procedures and citizen papers that have been approved in 19 specialized Resolutions of the Government according to the Overall Project to Simplify Administrative Procedures and Citizen Papers and Data Related to Population Management in the 2013-2020 period (referred to as Project 896). Thereby, contributing to establishing a digital citizen platform in the regulations of state management agencies, enterprises and people.

Nghe An police carry out procedures to issue citizen identification cards to people. Photo: Document

On this occasion, the Prime Minister awarded the Government Emulation Flag to the National Population Data Center and presented Certificates of Merit to 8 groups; the Minister of Public Security also presented Certificates of Merit to many groups and individuals for their outstanding achievements in building the National Population Database project and the Production, issuance andCitizen ID Management.