IfG.CC - The Potsdam eGovernment Competence Center

The Ministry of Public Security will initiate the project of Chinese citizen's new ID cards, which will change the present common ID card into the ID card containing a piece of IC card. The new ID card can store up more personal information and will be more difficult to forge. The Ministry of Public Security will initiate the project of Chinese citizen's new ID cards, which will change the present common ID card into the ID card containing a piece of IC card. The new ID card can store up more personal information and will be more difficult to forge.

Market scale of IC cards in China will exceed 500 million in 2004.

According to the report on IC card market recently released by China Center for Information Industry Development (CCID), the market of IC cards is expected to exceed 500 million in 2004.

Smart card, also called IC card refers to electronic identification card with integrated circuits, which has the functions of identifying cards and recognizing identities. Now, the widely used cell-phone cards, traffic cards and social insurance cards are all smart cards.

As smart cards are used more and more widely, about 556 million cards will be put on the market in 2004 and the market demand will be 689 million in 2006, according to the CCID report.

As introduced, the telecom cards occupy 70 percent of the whole market shares. Acceding to the report, the non-telecom card market will develop greatly. The market of social insurance cards, traffic cards and cards of e-government will increase steadily and the market of ID cards and bankcards will be the main target of manufacturers.

Quelle: People's Daily Online, 23.10.2003