China to issue new intelligent ID cards
Xinhuanet Online
www.chinaview.cn 2004-01-28 09:28:23
BEIJING, Jan. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- China is planning to issue new intelligent ID cards for its 1.3 billion people, and some citizens will be issued computer readable cards as early as March. According to officials with the Ministry of Public Security, the new ID card will hopefully be an effective way of preventing rampant forging of old ID cards in use.
The new card contains a module that integrates a special chip containing information on the card holder. The chip-module was jointly developed by the Institute of Microelectronics under elite Qinghua University and Qinghua Tongfang Microelectronics Co. Ltd., a subsidiary controlled by Qinghua University.
According to ministry officials, the thumbnail-sized module will make the new card greatly superior as information within the module can be read and processed by computer. This will greatly increase security because police can use a card processing machine to check if information in a new card matches a preset code storedin the machine.
The information stored in the chip includes digital data for management and anti-counterfeiting. The new ID card, 85.6 mm by 54 mm, will be put into use in March in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Changsha, according to ministry officials. The ministry expects that the nationwide replacement program will be fully completed by the end of 2008 when a total of 1 billion ID cards will be given out.
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