Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Quang Ninh (VNA)– Authorities of the northern province of Quang Ninh are striving to promote comprehensivedigital transformation, especially in administrative reform, with the aims of luring more investment intothe locality.
Bythe end of May, the province's administrative procedure settlement system hasbeen connected to the national population database one including the personalidentification and people's identity card verification service, householdinformation confirmation and information sharing services.
Provincial authorities are directing lower-level ones to review,standardise, restructure, and simplify the process of administrative procedures.
Since June 1, digitisation and data extraction platforms havebeen piloted at the provincial public administration service centre, and in thesectors of justice; labour, invalids and society; education and training;health care; and information and communication.
Over 9,300 enterprises in Quang Ninh have registered to use e-invoices.
Quang Ninh has so far provided 1,712 Level-4 online publicservices out of the 1,832 administrative procedures.
The rate of administrative procedure documents received andprocessed online via the online public service portal reached 62%.
Up to 1,180 online public services at level 3-4 of the locality havebeen synchronised on the national public service portal.
Local authorities have also paid attention to removing difficultiesfacing businesses, developing modern and synchronous infrastructure facilities,and enhancing regional linkages towards promoting economic growth and luringmore investment.
Thanks to the acceleration of digital transformation inadministrative reform, as of early June 2022, the province's non-budgetinvestment attraction reached nearly 37.9 trillion VND (over 1.6 billion USD).
Quang Ninh has granted new investment registration certificates and approved capital additionto nine domestic and foreign projects with a total newly-registered and added capitalof nearly 4 trillion VND; and gave in-principle approval for 29 projects worth over 33.9 trillion VND.
In the first half of 2022, Quang Ninh reported 1,320newly-established businesses, and 675 those resuming operation. The province ishome to 17,142 enterprises and their affiliated units which have a totalregistered capital of 382.5 trillion VND.
Lastyear, Quang Ninh topped Vietnam's Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI); and Satisfaction Index of Public Administration Services (SIPAS). It also ranked second in the publicadministration reform (PAR) index.
Quang Ninh is the province with 5 consecutiveyears of holding the first position in the PCI in 2017- 2021, and 9consecutive years during 2013 - 2021 inthe group of five provinces and centrally-run cities having the best performanceof economic management in the country.
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.
Quang Ninh collected over 27.18 trillion VND(1.17 billion USD at current exchange rate) for the State budget, an increase of 18% year-on-year.
Total social investment in the period is estimated at 42.3 trillion VND, up10.9% from the same period last year.
The province aims to increase its grossregional domestic product (GRDP) by 10 percent on an annual average during theperiod, and the per capita GRDP to over 10,000 USD by 2025. The urbanisation rate isexpected to surpass 75 percent, while the rate of poor households to go down tobelow 1 percent.
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 and servicelocality, an international tourismcentre and one of the economic drivers of the country in the future./.