BEIJING - China's first generation of resident ID cards will expire on January 1, 2013, the Ministry of Public Security said Thursday. More than 1.1 billion people, or 80 percent of China's ...

The second-generation cards were also distributed in east China's Shanghai municipality and Shenzhen city of south China's Guangdong province Monday. The newly released plastic chip ID card ...

The era of non-electronic ID cards has drawn to a close in Chinese mainland since January 1 as it finally phases out use of its first-generation cards for chip-embedded IDs. Chinese mainland did ...

Can digitisation be applied to burdensome and largely paper-based transactions to help China’s government ... The current ID card is the second-generation version that features an embedded ...

BEIJING -- China will issue a new version of the foreign permanent resident ID card starting from Dec 1, which will facilitate card holders' handling of their personal affairs online, according to ...

Of all the tactics, offering ID cards is a relatively new one, Wang said. "In the past, when Taiwanese people went to China, they were treated as foreigners. Now, they can be regarded as citizens ...

Shutterstock Dubai: Are you a Chinese expatriate in the UAE who just realised that your Chinese resident ID card is about to expire ... your place of residence. 2. Contact your local Public ...