Ha Long pilots settlement of administrative procedures at post offices. - Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Under the pilot project, post offices are to process anumber of district-level administrative procedures in Ha Long.
The project aims to further improve the quality of service to the people,making it easy for them in carrying out administrative procedures, helpingreduce the time for travel and minimise bureaucracy and negativity among officialsand civil servants.
It is also expected to concretise guidelines and policies of theParty and State in digital transformation, building a digital government, economy and society; and promote the role of the public postal servicein applying digitalisation in performing administrative services.
Inthe first phase, the project will focus on guiding and supporting organisationsand citizens to carry out 47 administrative procedures in nine fields at fourpost offices in wards and communes, namely Ha Tu, Gieng Day, Viet Hung, andThong Nhat.
At these post offices, citizens will be guided by postal staffto submit administrative procedures through the provincial public service portal.They can also register for the receipt and return of administrative proceduresat home.
In the second phase, the municipal post offices will be authorisedto support the receipt of dossiers and return the results of settlement of anumber of administrative procedures under the district-level jurisdiction toorganisations and individuals through all postal transaction stations in HaLong city and at home.
In the third phase, postal staff will replace civil servants in receivingdocuments and returning results at the city’s public administration centre fora number of simple administrative procedures which have been effectivelyimplemented at the two first phases.
Quang Ninh is striving to fulfill the work of digitisation;digital signature and electronic storage of records and papers, results ofadministrative procedures that have been successfully resolved at all the three levelsby 2023.
By 2024, 100% of the results of administrative proceduresettlement will be signed with digital signatures and returned to the people viadigital platforms.
Since June 1, digitisation and dataextraction platforms have been piloted at the provincial public administration service centre, and in the sectors of justice; labour, invalidsand society; education and training; health care; and information andcommunication.
Over 9,300 enterprises in Quang Ninh haveregistered to use e-invoices.
Quang Ninh has so far provided 1,712 Level-4online public services out of the 1,832 administrative procedures.
The rate of administrative procedure documentsreceived and processed online via the online public service portal reached 62%.
Up to 1,180 online public services at level 3-4 ofthe locality have been synchronised on the national public service portal.
Local authorities have also paid attention toremoving difficulties facing businesses, developing modern and synchronousinfrastructure facilities, and enhancing regional linkages towards promotingeconomic growth and luring more investment.
In the first half of 2022, Quang Ninhreported 1,320 newly-established businesses, and 675 those resuming operation.The province is home to 17,142 enterprises and their affiliated units whichhave a total registered capital of 382.5 trillion VND.
The locality posted an estimated growth rateof 10.66% in Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) in the first six months ofthis year, which is 2.64 percentage points higher than the rate in the sameperiod of 2021.
The province aims to increase the percapita GRDP to over 10,000 USD by 2025.
Priority will be given to drawingnew-generation direct foreign investment (FDI) into processing, hi-techmanufacturing and clean industrial projects located in designated economiczones and industrial parks.
It is striving to become a modern industrial andservice locality, an international tourism centre and one of the economicdrivers of the country in the future./.
VNA
