A corner of Ha Long city (Photo: VNA)
Quang Ninh (VNA) – The northeasternprovince of Quang Ninh is determined to build a digital administration, thenext step of e-administration.
This is considered an inevitable trend in thecontext of extensive international integration and the boom of the fourthIndustrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) as well as local development.
Based on“smart city” foundation
Following the success in building the e-administrationand reforming administrative procedures in the 2012 – 2018 period, Quang Ninhprovince has built a digital administration based on the implementation of aproject building smart cities in the 2019 – 2025 period.
Quang Ninh province’s smart cities will takepeople and tourists as the centre. They will be encouraged to help developtourism services.
The local authorities will work to improvemanagement capacity as well as the quality and efficiency of socio-economicactivities, creating an attractive investment environment and promoting inclusivedevelopment.
The province will continue refining legalregulations to facilitate the implementation and development of e-administration,digital ministration and smart cities.
The smart city project will be carried out in Cam Pha, UongBi and Mong Cai cities.
Lookingtowards knowledge-based economy
Quang Ninh was the first province in Vietnam toimplement e-document exchange at the central, provincial, district and communallevels.
So far, the provincial e-administration systemhas made e-document exchanges with 33 ministries and departments along with 62cities and provinces across the country.
The province is building information systems anddatabase for specialised fields such as business, land, health management,management of civil status, transport infrastructure, tourism, environment,entrance and exit management and management of database on children, amongothers.
Looking to become an information knowledge-basedeconomic centre in the northern region, Quang Ninh province is establishing aconcentrated information technology park at Tuan Chau ward, Ha Long city, onnearly 8.46 hectares.
The detailed planning scheme of the project hasbeen approved and the selection of the investor is underway.
The project will focus on research and development,training, producing and trading IT products and services, in addition toproviding infrastructure and services for organisations and businesses in thefield.
The establishment of the IT park is crucial forQuang Ninh province to develop creative smart services.
Ha Long city aims to become smart tourism city
HaLong city – which is home to the world natural heritage site of Ha LongBay is angling to become a smart tourismcity.
The city plans to apply technologies in various sectors including health,education, governance, transport, finance-banking and taxation with an aim toprovide convenient services to people and businesses.
Authoritiesplan to accelerate the smart city development process and make the city amodern metropolis by 2020.
Five smart-city projects have investment for the 2017-20 period, includingplans to upgrade lighting system, set up online tax collection system andtechnology application in urban management and improve tourism safety on HaLong Bay.
According to the local authority,nearly 3,500 Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamps have been installed on 18 keyroads of the city.
A publiclighting controlling centre has been built to supervise the operation of thecity’s lighting system.
The LED lamps help save electricity and morewill be installed in the areas far from the city centre.
To develop a smart city,local agencies have piloted smart tax collection system at 34 enterprises toavoid tax losses.
The municipal Taxation Department has applied technology inmanaging electronic bills of businesses, households and individuals.
A total 986 out of 3,607 local enterprises have usedelectronic bills. More than 3,000 units pay tax online.
Electronic bills will be applied at 60 percentof local businesses this year and all in 2020.-VNA
