Digital transformation is an inevitable global trend and an important and urgent solution as a basis for the formulation and implementation of socio-economic development programs and plans of each locality and country. The Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress has identified digital transformation as one of six key tasks and three strategic breakthroughs to implement the country's development orientation for the period 2021-2030.

On July 22, 2021, the provincial Party Committee issued Resolution No. 51 on digital transformation for 2021 - 2025 with a vision to 2030, showing the determination to carry out digital transformation in the three pillars of digital administration, digital economy, and digital society.

So far, Yen Bai has put into use a data centre, a security operations centre, and a camera system for security and traffic safety surveillance, and been connected with the national population database. Meanwhile, a data transmission network for Party and State agencies in the province has been applied at 408 places, and a videoconferencing system deployed to 183 places, including 173 communes.

All the 425 public services in Yen Bai are now provided at Level 4 - the highest level, 78.33 percent of the papers of Level-3 and Level-4 online public services handled online, and 100 percent of the local people and businesses satisfied with the settlement and administrative procedures by the three levels of administration, thereby helping improve the local happiness index as in line with the resolution of the 19th provincial Party Congress for the 2020 - 2025 period.

In addition, Yen Bai has paid attention to developing digital technology company, digital content, e-commerce, and smart production. It has assisted 100 businesses to complete their e-commerce infrastructure on e-commerce platforms.

The rate of local households using smartphones now stands at 94.7 percent. Meanwhile, 100 percent of the educational establishments have applied education management software, and the telehealth consulting system been used in all district-level localities. Yen Bai is the sixth province nationwide to pilot the telehealth system at the communal level.

The Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Do Duc Duy affirmed: The initial results in the implementation of digital transformation in Yen Bai province over the past time are the result of a fundamental change in the thinking, perception and actions of officials, party members, civil servants and public employees in the political system and the whole society; especially the determination, dynamism and creativity of the heads of the Party Committees and authorities at all levels and the support and consensus of the business community and people in the province with the desire to catch up with the trend, and seize and take advantage of the opportunity of the fourth industrial revolution. This is an important basis and premise for Yen Bai province to continue effectively implementing the task of digital transformation in 2022 and the following years.