HO CHI MINH CITY, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, which launched 236 online public services last year, plans to provide 148 others this year, according to the municipal Information and Communications Department on Tuesday.
Ho Chi Minh City's administrative procedures will be integrated with a national database, so that local residents can submit their files, supervise the process and receive results via the internet more conveniently.
The city's Justice Department is seeking ways to collect the fees of online public services provided by the three departments of health, planning and investment, and natural resources and environment.
The number of files, excluding those involving taxation, customs, social insurance and immigration, being resolved via the city's online public services surged 3.6 times, to 294,100 by the end of August 2017 from 81,600 in 2016.
Ho Chi Minh City had 552 online public services by the end of 2017, up 97.5 percent against 2016.
