The campaign aimed at implementing Plan No. 2959/KH-BNNMT-BCA dated March 29, 2026, issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and the Ministry of Public Security, on strengthening and accelerating land surveying, cadastral mapping, cadastral record preparation and completion of the national land database.
The entire political system joins the effort
According to a report by the Lao Cai Provincial Department of Agriculture and Environment, as of early October 2026, a total of 4,899,737 land parcels had been updated and managed in the province’s land database system. Data from all 99 out of 99 communes and wards had also been synchronised with the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment’s system for monitoring progress in the development of the national land database. The total area for which cadastral surveying had been completed stood at 70,413 out of 92,748.01 hectares, equivalent to 75.9% of the workload under projects approved by the competent authorities. The surveying results provide a basis for continuing land registration, cadastral record preparation, digitisation of records and development of the land database in areas where data are not yet available, gradually completing a unified cadastral records and land database system across the province.
Depending on their specific circumstances, a number of communes and wards in Lao Cai have adopted effective and innovative approaches. Ban Xeo Commune established a Steering Committee and three supporting teams in the areas of Muong Vi, Ban Xeo and Pa Cheo, with commune People's Committee leaders assigned to directly monitor and urge progress. According to Nguyen Van Thanh, Vice Chairman of the Ban Xeo Commune People's Committee, more than 90% of the local population are ethnic minority people living in scattered settlements, making implementation considerably challenging. In response, the locality stepped up public communication and mobilisation efforts, deploying supporting teams to individual villages, hamlets and households to provide guidance and assistance to residents, thereby ensuring that land data were completed on schedule.
More than 3,900 land parcels across the commune had already had databases established but has not met requirements, while more than 61,300 parcels lacked spatial data and fields containing legal attribute information. The Ban Xeo area alone accounted for more than 31,000 parcels, the largest share of the workload. Faced with this volume of work, immediately after its establishment, the supporting team in the Ban Xeo area proactively conducted public communication through social media and loudspeaker systems, and visited individual households to guide residents in making declarations and providing information, thereby accelerating progress.
Assigned to oversee the Pa Cheo area, one of the most remote and disadvantaged parts of Ban Xeo Commune, Bui Thi Van, Deputy Head of the Commune's Economic Division, said that residents were usually out working in the fields during the day and were rarely at home. The supporting team therefore took the initiative to visit individual households during lunch breaks or in the evening to carry out its work.
The supporting team assigned members who could speak local ethnic languages to small groups to facilitate communication with and guidance for residents. A “rolling” approach was also adopted, with work in one village completed before the team moved on to the next. Thanks to these innovative and effective approaches, together with the determined involvement of the entire political system, Ban Xeo Commune completed all the tasks assigned under the 120-Day Campaign by June 24, becoming one of the earliest localities in the province to fulfil its targets.
Meanwhile, in the border commune of Ban Lau, a total of 4,195 land parcels required supplementary information and the citizen identification details of their land users. By May 18, the locality had completed 100% of its assigned target. Of the 48,790 land parcels for which spatial data were available but attribute information and unstructured data were missing or incomplete, the commune had reviewed and supplemented information for 46,131 parcels by June 30, reaching approximately 95%.
According to Giang Trung Dung, Chairman of the Ban Lau Commune People's Committee, the process of completing the local land database had encountered a number of difficulties due to the commune's large area, complex terrain and fragmented topography. In addition, cadastral maps drawn up over different periods contained discrepancies in coordinates and boundaries compared with actual conditions, requiring on-site inspection and verification. However, thanks to specific approaches closely aligned with local realities and the joint efforts of authorities and sectors at all levels, Ban Lau achieved positive results, gradually overcoming difficulties and improving the quality of land data, thereby contributing to the province-wide completion of the 120-Day Campaign.
Continuing to complete and standardise land data
Nguyen Thi Vi Hue, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment, said that the province's land database had now basically met the requirements for State management of land and was gradually proving effective in the management and administration activities of State agencies.
The land database system has been connected to and shared data with relevant information systems, helping improve the efficiency of administrative procedure processing and online public service provision, shorten document processing times, and reduce the need for residents and businesses to resubmit information and documents already available in the database. The quality of land data continues to improve through regular reviews, standardisation, updates, adjustments to records reflecting changes, and data enrichment in accordance with regulations. The province is currently stepping up efforts to complete this process, ensuring that the data meet the criteria of being “correct, complete, clean and live”. A number of communes and wards are still carrying out cadastral surveys, issuing first-time Certificates of Land Use Rights, receiving land declarations and registrations, and updating changes. As a result, land data are continually being generated and modified, making timely updates and adjustments to the system necessary.
Following the administrative unit reorganisation and provincial merger, Lao Cai Province has had to integrate, standardise and synchronise the land databases established in the localities prior to the reorganisation. As the data were developed over different periods and on different systems, with differences in data structures, administrative unit codes and levels of completion, further reviews, standardisation, duplicate data processing, and synchronisation of spatial data, attribute data and scanned records are required. This will ensure that the database following the merger is unified and accurate, and meets the requirements for long-term use and operation.
