On December 30, 2025, the Hai Phong City People's Committee officially issued Decision No. 5340/QD-UBND establishing a set of indicators to serve the city's direction and administration within the digital environment. This represents a breakthrough step in realizing the digital transformation strategy, shifting from traditional management to smart governance based on real-time data to meet the requirements for fast and sustainable development of the Port City in the new era.
Legal Foundation and Strategic Vision
Decision 5340 is based on critical legal grounds from the Government and Central Ministries, specifically Decision No. 1012/QD-TTg (September 20, 2024) of the Prime Minister regarding the plan to digitize online direction and administration activities based on data through 2030. Locally, this is an effort by the Department of Science and Technology to consult on the formation of a Provincial Intelligent Operation Center (IOC) model in accordance with the guidance of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
The core goals of this set of indicators go beyond mere statistics, aiming to:
- Form an information system to support leadership: Handling the central and urgent issues of the Government and city leaders in the timeliest manner.
- Build a multi-dimensional data warehouse: Creating a comprehensive resource of socio-economic data with ensured accuracy and synchronization.
- Optimize administrative resources: Exploiting, sharing, and reusing existing data between state agencies to reduce the burden of manual reporting, aiming to retrieve data directly from specialized information systems.
Structure of 86 Indicators: Comprehensive and Specialized
Hai Phong's new set of indicators is scientifically designed with a total of 86 indicators, divided into four strategic groups to cover all aspects of socio-economic life:
- Group A (61 indicators): Serving daily and monthly direction and administration. This is the most vital group, providing a panorama that helps leaders detect early problems or abnormal trends for flexible decision-making.
- Group B (15 indicators): Monitoring the implementation of annual socio-economic development plans.
- Group C (3 indicators): Tracking the progress of national target programs and key national projects through 2025.
- Group D (7 indicators): Serving administration during emergency situations such as natural disasters, epidemics, and search and rescue operations.
Economic Governance through a "Digital Lens"
In the economic sphere, the indicators focus on sensitive and high-impact variables:
- Consumer Price Index (CPI): Data is categorized into 11 main commodity groups (food, beverages, clothing, housing, household equipment, healthcare, transport, education, etc.) to compare monthly fluctuations and year-on-year changes. Additionally, gold and US dollar price indices are continuously updated.
- Finance – Budget: Collecting actual data on budget revenue and expenditure compared to estimates, and the detailed disbursement status of public investment down to each commune, ward, and special zone.
- Import-Export and Investment: Monitoring the value of goods through ports, trade balances, and the number of import-export enterprises by country and territory. Notably, realized and registered Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is closely monitored by economic sector.
- Industrial Production: Industrial production indices and the output of key products are updated monthly to assess the health of spearhead economic sectors.
Digitalizing Welfare and Social Governance
The set of indicators devotes a significant portion to social issues and human resources:
- Labor and Education: Tracking the number of Vietnamese laborers working abroad, job transactions, and vocational training for people with disabilities. In education, data covers from preschool to continuing education, clearly distinguishing between public and non-public institutions.
- Insurance and Healthcare: Statistics on the number of participants and beneficiaries of social and health insurance; the number of doctors and hospital beds per 10,000 residents.
- Administrative Reform: This is a modern group of indicators measuring the quality of service for citizens and businesses when performing administrative procedures in the digital environment in real-time.
Emergency Response Capabilities Based on Digital Maps
A highlight of Decision 5340 is the establishment of indicators specifically for emergency situations (Group D). The city requires the construction of a multi-layered data system on the digital map of Vietnam:
- Base map layer: Includes terrain, traffic, power grids, rivers, etc.
- Situational layer: Tracks storm intensity, flood-prone areas, epidemic heat maps, and locations of fires or chemical spills.
- Resource layer: Displays the location and readiness of military and police units, field hospitals, available ICU beds, food reserves, and specialized vehicles like helicopters and amphibious vehicles.
- Livelihood layer: Identifies population density and the location of vulnerable subjects (schools, nursing homes) to establish optimal evacuation routes.
Specific indicators in this group—such as wind speed at the eye of a storm, river water levels, the number of severe/critical cases, ICU occupancy rates, or the number of people rescued—will help leaders draw lessons to continuously improve disaster prevention efforts in accordance with the United Nations' Sendai Framework.
Key Projects and National Target Programs
For major projects like the North-South expressway or international airports, Hai Phong uses detailed dashboards with color codes (Green: on schedule, Yellow: at risk, Red: slow). Data on site clearance, material supply, and actual construction progress is updated continuously to resolve obstacles promptly.
Simultaneously, progress in sustainable poverty reduction and new rural development is quantified through indicators such as: multi-dimensional poverty rates, the number of laborers with vocational training, and the percentage of the rural population using standard clean water.
Implementation: Responsibility and Coordination
The Chairman of the City People's Committee has assigned the Department of Science and Technology to lead the implementation of this set of indicators. Key performing agencies include:
- City Statistics Office: In charge of price, industrial production, and transport indicators.
- Department of Finance: Monitoring budget revenue/expenditure and public investment.
- City Police: Managing population data, entry/exit, and security.
- Department of Agriculture and Environment: Monitoring agricultural output, rural development, and hydro meteorological information.
- City People's Committee Office: Monitoring the performance of tasks assigned by the Government and the Prime Minister.
The issuance of this set of indicators is a testament to Hai Phong's determination to completely digitize administrative work. By connecting data and utilizing modern analytical tools, the city's "digital brain" ensures transparency and efficiency, positioning Hai Phong as a leading center for smart governance in the region.