ID
Card Project News
• China
will issue over 100 million of 2nd Generation
of National ID Cards in 2005
From the news of Ministry of Public
Security, by the end of 2005, China
will have a total issuance of 100 million
of the 2nd Generation of National ID
Cards. According to the responsible
spokesman, 6 million of this new ID
card has been issued since the beginning
of 2004. Within next five years, the
total of 1 billion of ID cards has to
be issued.
The "New ID Card" project
has been under a preparation over the
past 8 years ranging from the feasibility
study, project approval to the technical
studies and purchasing process. Due
to the security concern and the national
legal administrative law, this Project
has been done with tender bidding open
only to the local Chinese companies,
such as chip suppliers ( Huahong Micro-electronics,
Datang Microelectronics, Qinhua Tongfang
Microelectronics, China CEC Huada Microelectronics
) and card vendors ( EastCom Peace,
Beijing Aerospace Golden Cards, Shangdong
HuaGuan Cards, China Vehicle Test Center,
Hainan Pacific Smart Card, Shanghai
Zhongka, Tianjin Global Magnetic ).
From October of 2004, China International
Bidding Co., Ltd., entrusted by the
Government to conduct one tender for
the ID card readers' project in Beijing.
There were over 80 readers suppliers
and related technology companies that
took part in the bidding. At the final
stage, there were only 10 suppliers
that have been selected to be the contracted
suppliers to the new ID card readers'
project ever since. Beijing Zhongdun
Security Technology Co., Ltd, Shanghai
Postal Telecom Share Holding Company,
Huaxu Golden Card Share Holding Company,
Shangdong Shensi Electronic System Co.,Ltd.,
Inner Mongolia YiAn Science & Technology
Development Co., Ltd., Shenzhen China
Vision Electronics Readers Company,
Wuhan Jinlun Electronics Holding Company,
Beijing Chang Mao Technology Company,
HaerBin Xinzhong Electronics Share Holding
Company and Chendu Guoteng Telecom (
Group ) Company.
The potential market of business for
the card venders and reading equipment
will bring the incentives for the card
market within the next 5 years, such
as the installation of readers in hotels,
restaurants, at airports and banks etc.
The future new roll-out of ID card replacements
for losses or new born babies at an
annual birth growth of 10 million in
China. In this regard, the New ID Project
in China will provide the growing demand
for contactless technology for the next
10 to 15 years, because this is the
largest ID card project in the world.
Key data: new ID card has
a memory of 4K contactless chip technology,
at present the memory capacity is
only kept for storing the individual
data of ID cardholder, such as name,
sex, date of birth, household address
and location of household registration.
Originally the finger prints were
planned to be in the storage, but
this application has been denied.
E-passport
Project News
• Chinese
Government has approved the E-passport
Project to be on a trial in 2005
According to the reliable source of
Ministry of Public Security-MPS, recently
the Chinese Government has approved
the implementation of new machine-readable
electronic passport project, which
is catching up with the ICAO recommendation
and the international trend.
China has 4,000 border check-points
from land to airports and sea-ports.
The most busy check-points are cities
of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong (
including Luo Hu land-port adjacent
to Hong Kong in Shenzhen with a daily
visitors' handling at 200,000 and
Gong Bei land-port adjacent to Macao
in Zhuhai with a daily visitors' handling
at 100,000). In view of the fact that
the Central Government has approved
more homeland cities for the citizens
to travel on a tourist document to
Hong Kong and Macao, such as Beijing,
Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu,
Hubei etc. During the long-week holidays
in May, October and Chinese New Year,
the borders are heavily jammed with
the long lines of travelers, and sometimes
the systems have been jeopardized.
To solve this problem and follow with
the worldwide trends of ICAO recommended
electronic travel documents, China
has decided to take the action of
implementing the electronic passports
from 2004 onward. This week, the Central
Government has approved the E-passport
Project with the initial trials on
travel documents for Hong Kong and
Macao and will move on to the real
passport projects nationwide by 2008.
There will be two phases to carry
on, as such from E-travel documents
2004 onward transiting to E-passports
in 2008. Hong Kong has launched new
ID in 2004 till 2005 and Macao the
same in 2005. At present, the standards
and technical specification studies
have been carried on and the visits
to the leading chip suppliers and
manufacturing suppliers have been
done the week after CeBIT in Germany.
According to the reliable source,
the security is the focus of the E-passport
project, such as biometrics, COS etc.
At the same time, the border check-points
are planned for reconstruction in
Shenzhen and Zhuhai by January of
2005.
The official speakers from Ministry
of Public Security are invited to
speak at the 2nd E-passport Forum
to be held in Beijing on April 20
con-currently with 7th Smart Cards
+ Smart Label (RFID) Expo, China and
Users' Conference on April 19 - 21.
Important
Conference News in China
• 2nd
Asia Smart Label (RFID) Conference
to be held in Beijing on April 19
- 20
Jointly organized by China Federation
of Logistics and Purchasing and China
RFID Standard Working Group, 2nd Asia
Smart Label (RFID) Conference will
be held in Beijing on April 19-21.
The VIP attendants invited are from
the official administrations ( such
as Ministry of Information Industry,
Ministry of Railway, General Custom
Administration, and the officers from
Guangzhou and Shanghai). And the international
VIP speakers are also invited to make
key notes from India, Korea, China
Hong Kong and Taiwan Logistics Associations.
The leading international vendors
will make presentations at the Conference,
they are from Philips Semi-conductor,
ST, Symbol, TI etc.
The Organizers will keep half a day
for organizing China RFID Users' Summit,
by inviting the local end-users of
retailers, pharmacy, auto manufactures
and logistics, industrial gases cylinders
as well as the delegates in charge
of e-passport project to join in the
interactive discussions on the applications
of RFID in the different sectors and
the briefings on the RFID status.
The discussed issues and problems
in the RFID applications from the
different users will be collected
and compiled into the sum-up report
from the Summit. This sum-up report
will be taken as the valuable reference
for the promotion of RFID industry
in China. The relevant officers will
be invited to attend the Conference
and brief on the present status on
the RFID standard drafting work from
the related authorities of Ministry
of Information Industry and give Q
and A at the event.
To register, please click
here or visit: www.apsca.org
• 7th
Smart Cards + Smart Label (RFID) Expo,
China and Users' Conference promoted
at the international level
From the Organizers' report, 7th Smart
Cards + Smart Label (RFID), China
and Users' Conference has made outstanding
progresses in its booth sales and
over 70 exhibitors have taken two
third of the total 5,500 sqm. show
space. Those who are interested in
the exhibition or sponsoring the event
may contact with AIT Events Co., Ltd.
by the deadline at March 15. The show
will be held at Beijing Exhibition
Center Hall 9 and 11.
(www.atmia.org
; www.apsca.org
; www.globalsmart.com
; www.kepia.org
; www.chinawuliu.com.cn
; www.chinasmartlabel.com
; www.strategiestm.com
; www.cardtechnology.com
; www.universalparckaging.com).
Ever since its first event initially
organized in 1998, this Grand Event
has become the premier and officially
recognized industrial trade show taking
the lead of presenting the global
trend of the smart cards market and
local card industry in China. The
branded vendors at home and abroad
are from Philips Semi-conductors,
ST Micro-electronics, Muehlbauer,
Delo, ASK, Bielomatik, Schober, Sagem,
Verifone, Lipman, M-POS, E-smart,
Datang Micro-electronics, Huahong
Micro-electronics, China CEC Huada
Electronics, China CES Smart Cards,
Shanghai Beiling, Beijing Tianshi,
Shenzhen Promatic, Shanghai ShenBo
etc.
• 7th
The Users' Conference focusing on
the industrial hot topics
From the Organizers of 7th Smart Cards
+ Smart Label (RFID),China and Users'
Conference to be held between April
19 to 21. The Organizers will make
a multi-tracts Users' Conference rich
in contents and better than the previous
year's conference both in size and
more topics. There are more international
involvements in conducting business
communications at different levels
with the Chinese users, they are from
Global Platform, Asia IC Card Forum,
Asia Pacific Smart Card Association,
French Healthcare Card Association,
French Bankcard Association and Smart
Card Forum of India. The topics to
be addressed will be on Asia IC card
standard and application interoperability,
global e-passport, biometrics technology
and payment terminals and EMV migration
etc. Those who are interested in the
Users' Conference are welcome to register
for attendance.
• Global
Platform will organize its first GP
Seminar in Beijing on April 21
GlobalPlatform has decided to host
a one-day business seminar to be held
at the Shangri-La Hotel in Beijing,
China that will focus on "GlobalPlatform
Today and in the Future". At
the seminar, GlobalPlatform representatives
will provide to the Chinese attendants
with an overview of GlobalPlatform
and present examples of current and
future real-life worldwide implementations
for single and multi-application smart
card programs in the finance, government,
healthcare, and mobile telecommunications
industries.
Already there are in excess of 70
million GlobalPlatform smart cards
in circulation across the world and
an additional 450 million GSM cards
that utilize GlobalPlatform technology
for Over-The-Air (OTA) application
download. These figures are expected
to increase significantly over the
next few years.
Join GlobalPlatform Board Members,
Technical and Business Directors,
Mobile Telecommunication and Payment
organization leaders, and a panel
of industry experts, on 21 April to
learn more about GlobalPlatform's
worldwide implementation programs
across industries and attend a cocktail
reception where you will have the
opportunity to mingle with the experts!
Please R.S.V.P
by 4 April, 2005 to: http://www.globalplatform.org/events/bbs2005/showpage.asp?page=bbsregistration
