On April 3, in Hanoi, the Department of Asset Management (Ministry of Finance) held a conference to guide the review and standardization of public asset inventory data and collect comments on a number of draft legal documents in the field of public asset management and use. The conference was chaired by Mr. Nguyen Tan Thinh - Director of the Department of Public Asset Management.
The conference is within the framework of the Prime Minister's Decision No. 213/QD-TTg dated 1.2025 approving the Project on General Inventory of Public Assets at agencies, organizations, units and infrastructure assets invested and managed by the State. According to this decision, the total inventory must be completed before March 31, 2025; The ministries, branches and localities sent reports to the Ministry of Finance before June 15, 2025 and the Ministry of Finance reported to the Government before July 31, 2025.
In recent years, the Ministry of Finance has coordinated with ministries, central agencies and localities to actively implement the tasks under the project, including preparing the total inventory, carrying out assets tallying, and entering data on the general inventory software. Up to the present time, the actual counting work has been completed, the units are urgently completing data to serve the reporting on the software.
Speaking at the Conference, Mr. Nguyen Tan Thinh affirmed that this was an important conference to review and standardize the inventory data before the agencies officially sent the report. At the same time, the Party Committee of the Ministry of Finance reported to the Government Party Committee to continue reporting to the Politburo, which emphasized the policy of shortening the total inventory time to serve the arrangement and streamlining the administrative apparatus in localities.
"The spirit is that in April 2025, ministries and localities must send an official report to the Ministry of Finance. In early May 5.2025, the Ministry of Finance must complete the report to submit to the Government and the Prime Minister. If prolonged, the total inventory will not promptly serve the process of arranging the apparatus," Mr. Thinh emphasized.
The leader of the Department of Asset Management also noted that this inventory data is of special significance as it will long-term serve many state management goals, including handling surplus public assets, rearranging administrative units, and serving as a basis for inspection and auditing. Therefore, the requirement is to standardize and ensure the highest accuracy.
According to Mr. Thinh, the Ministry of Finance has regularly reviewed data on the general inventory software, promulgating guiding documents, requiring ministries and localities to review and revise the data if there is unreasonable problem. "We monitor the overall figures of the whole country, each ministry and locality on the system, so we can recognize the inappropriate points. If the data is incorrect, it will lead to a summary summary, affecting the orientation of public property," he said.
At the conference, officials of the Department of Asset Management directly disseminated and provided detailed instructions on the process of checking and reviewing data to delegates who are officials in charge of inventory work at ministries, central agencies and local Departments of Finance. Delegates also practice data standardization on the Public Asset General Census Software to ensure consistency and accuracy before making a report according to regulations.
