Hanoi, Sept. 18 -- Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung has signed off a plan to establish a national enterprise database with a view to serving governance and enhancing business support services.

The database will cover enterprises of all economic segments nationwide, comprising state-owned firms, non-state companies, and foreign-invested ones.

It will gather data from six main sources, namely business registration, taxation, import - export, social insurance, credit, and labour and employment, aiming to monitor enterprise performance to serve governance, enhance business support services, ensure transparency, and gradually build a open and big data source to support enterprises and citizens' investment, production, and business activ...