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 ...

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 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 ...