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Completing the national land database will not only improve land administration, but also enhance market transparency, lower transaction costs and create new growth drivers for the digital economy.
Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW on breakthroughs in science and technology development, innovation and national digital transformation identifies data as a new factor of production. Just as expressways, seaports and airports underpin the movement of goods, data is becoming a key pillar of the digital economy.
Among core datasets, land data is regarded as one of the most important resources, given its direct links to planning, investment, credit, real estate and the management of national assets. The government aims to complete the national land database in 2026 to modernize land administration while laying the groundwork for a data-driven growth model.
Land management has long been associated with a large number of administrative procedures, disputes and complaints. According to experts, one of the reasons is that land information systems remain fragmented, lack uniformity and are not effectively interconnected among government agencies.
Associate Professor Dang Hung Vo has repeatedly said that transparency is a prerequisite for building a modern land market. When information on land-use rights, planning, land prices and the legal status of real estate assets is not publicly available and standardized, transaction costs rise, increasing risks to the market.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, Vietnam currently has around 106 million land plots. This amounts to a vast volume of data related to ownership rights, land-use rights, assets attached to land, planning, land prices and a broad range of socio-economic information.
Progress achieved so far reflects significant advances in the digital transformation of the land sector, while also highlighting the substantial amount of work still required to complete the national database.
The government has repeatedly called for faster progress in building the national land database. Under Directive No. 05/CT-TTg on accelerating cadastral mapping, land registration, the establishment of cadastral records and the development of the national land database, the Prime Minister instructed ministries, agencies and local authorities to mobilize resources to complete the system in 2026, identifying it as a key task under the national digital transformation program.
Can Van Luc, member of the National Financial and Monetary Policy Advisory Council, said data is becoming a strategic resource for the digital economy. The development of national databases, including land data, would help reduce transaction costs, enhance market transparency and unlock new growth opportunities.
For the real estate market, comprehensive and reliable data could help curb speculation driven by rumors. Land price surges seen in many localities in recent years have shown that a lack of transparency often fuels herd mentality and speculative activity.
Nguyen Van Dinh, Chairman of the Vietnam Association of Realtors, said a sustainable property market must be built on a foundation of transparent information. Easier public access to data on planning, legal status and prices would enable more rational investment decisions, helping curb abnormal market fluctuations.
The benefits of a national land database extend far beyond administrative purposes. One of the most significant changes lies in the ability to reuse data. In the past, citizens were often required to repeatedly submit documents already held by government agencies.
Once land data is integrated with the national population database and other information systems, many procedures can be carried out online without the need for additional paperwork. This is one of the goals being pursued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment through efforts to connect and share land-use right certificate data with the administrative procedure settlement system.
Similar benefits are expected in the credit sector. Banks would be able to verify collateral more quickly, property developers could shorten project preparation times, tax authorities would gain additional tools to monitor land-related transactions, and local governments would have more accurate data to support planning and urban development.
In other words, a comprehensive land database would not only serve the natural resources and environment sector, but also have spillover effects across multiple sectors of the economy.
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