The above information was announced by Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc at the Conference to summarize the work in 2025 and deploy key tasks and solutions in 2026 to implement Resolution 57 of the Politburo, Project 204 of the Secretariat and Project 06 of the Government. The conference was organized by the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee on January 14.
According to Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc, Ho Chi Minh City is gradually operating urban areas based on data and digital technology in many key areas such as transportation, healthcare, and security and order.
In addition to the AI traffic control camera system, the city has achieved many outstanding results in digital transformation.
99% of hospitals in the area have deployed electronic medical records; more than 3.1 million people's health records are integrated on the VNeID platform. Applications such as SOS Security, Help 114 help shorten the time to receive and process people's reports to only 1-2 minutes.
In 2025, Ho Chi Minh City's digital economy is estimated to account for about 25% of GRDP. 100% of businesses carry out procedures on taxes, customs and electronic invoices. Over 90% of the adult population owns smartphones and has electronic payment accounts; the Digital Citizen application reached 650,000 downloads.
The city also focuses on training digital skills for people and cadres, civil servants, and public employees (CBCCVC). In the past year, Ho Chi Minh City has organized training and fostering on digital transformation and AI for more than 40,000 turns of CBCCVC, contributing to changing thinking and working habits in the digital environment.
For Project 204, Ho Chi Minh City has completed the "15 days and nights" campaign to clean up and standardize party member data, exceeding the progress by 10 days compared to the Central Government's requirements. To date, 90% of party members who are operating in party organizations throughout the city have installed and used software to study resolutions and regular monthly party cell activities.
With Project 06, Ho Chi Minh City is a pioneering locality to close the City Public Service Portal from June 18, 2025 to completely merge into the National Public Service Portal from June 19, 2025. The city is also the first unit selected by the Ministry of Public Security to pilot 5 essential public services and synchronize shared data to the National Data Center.
Notably, the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee said that on January 15, the city will announce the Northern Science and Technology Urban Project, located in the Binh Duong area.
This is expected to attract leading domestic and international scientists, forming a new growth pole for Ho Chi Minh City and the southern key economic region.
According to the development orientation, Ho Chi Minh City will develop according to a multi-polar, multi-focus model, in which the Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong and Ba Ria - Vung Tau regions will be important growth poles, closely connected in infrastructure, economy and technology.
Mr. Nguyen Van Duoc emphasized that in the coming time, the city needs to continue to improve its capacity and awareness of science and technology in leadership and direction, taking people and businesses as the center, and data as the foundation.
In 2025, Ho Chi Minh City achieved many impressive indicators in administrative reform: 100% announcement of administrative procedures not dependent on administrative boundaries; reduction and simplification of procedures issued by localities reached 36.36% (exceeding the target assigned by the Central Government by 30%); approval of 1,636 full-service online public services (reaching 80.1%).
In particular, 1,245 administrative procedures related to businesses were provided on the National Public Service Portal (reaching 100%); the rate of dossiers resolved on time reached nearly 96%, especially at the commune level up to 99.44%, contributing to reducing costs and time for people and businesses.
