Electronic chips store personal information
China’s e-passport is an electronic chip embedded in a traditional ordinary passport. The chip stores the holder’s name, date of birth, photo and other personal information. information, and can also collect the applicant’s fingerprint information and signature information on the spot.
Dozens of technologies prevent forgery and alteration
China’s electronic passport has a strong anti-counterfeiting function. Technically, the public security department has adopted dozens of anti-counterfeiting technologies such as special-shaped rainbow printing, multi-layer colorless fluorescent printing, multi-color wiring gravure printing, glossy ink, laser perforation and numbering, etc., which can effectively prevent forgery and alteration of passports. The chip adopts a high-security smart card that complies with the relevant ICAO standards. The chip data is protected through asymmetric cryptography technology with high security strength. It adopts a double password protection mechanism. The fingerprint information is only passed by the Chinese passport issuing authority and the border inspection authority. Only decoding equipment can be used to read and restore it, and other individuals and institutions at home and abroad cannot read and restore it.
Brilliant China-themed pattern design
The design of the passport pattern is more beautiful. The theme of the electronic ordinary passport pattern is "Brilliant China", which selects regionally representative theme elements from 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, as well as three national image representative elements, Tiananmen Square, the Great Wall, and the Temple of Heaven.
The procedure adds the collection of personal information
For citizens over the age of 16 to apply for an electronic ordinary passport, the public security department’s entry-exit management agency should collect the applicant’s fingerprint information on-site. If a citizen under the age of 16 applies for an electronic ordinary passport and the guardian agrees to provide the applicant's fingerprint information, the exit and entry management agency of the public security department can collect it on site. If the applicant cannot take fingerprints due to missing or damaged fingerprints, fingerprint information does not need to be collected. Citizens should sign the passport application form on the spot so that the exit and entry management agency of the public security department can scan the applicant's signature information into the information page of the electronic ordinary passport.
Electronic passports cannot be bent or punched
Electronic ordinary passports have sensitive electronic components built into them. In order to maintain their best performance, please do not bend or punch holes in electronic ordinary passports. Or exposed to extreme temperatures and humidity. 1. Diplomatic electronic passport: Its theme pattern is the Great Wall, which makes the diplomatic electronic passport more strongly Chinese. The Great Wall pattern selects the main parts of each representative section of the Great Wall from Shanhaiguan to Jiayuguan. It is connected end to end and highlights the main body of the Great Wall. The overall picture is harmonious and natural, and is a panoramic open style. Each page has a different pattern, which is an internationally accepted method; the entire The inner pages of the diplomatic passport also show a continuous Great Wall pattern under fluorescent lights. The watermark on the passport paper also uses the Great Wall pattern to highlight the theme and enhance the anti-counterfeiting performance of the passport. The design form of the pattern is simple and modern, looking stable and layered. The color is mainly warm tones of red and yellow, with reddish brown auxiliary colors.
2. Official and ordinary official e-passports: both use China's world natural and cultural heritage listed in the "World Natural and Cultural Heritage List" as the theme, striving to show China's rich and long-standing natural and cultural heritage and promote China Traditional history and culture, while embodying the concept of harmony. The patterns on the inner pages are selected from the world's natural and cultural heritage sites in various provinces in mainland China (arranged according to administrative divisions). The design is in the form of double pages, showing beautiful and spectacular pictures. Each page is supplemented by China's unique cultural symbol "Chinese Knot" as the background shading pattern. Under fluorescent lights, each page can also show a different form of "Chinese Knot" pattern, echoing the shading pattern on the inner page of the passport, implying harmony. Peace and prosperity. The color mainly adopts neutral tones of blue-green, with medium yellow supplementary colors, which makes it appear ancient and heavy.
3. Electronic Ordinary Passport: Electronic Ordinary Passport is a new type of document that embeds an electronic chip in the traditional ordinary passport and stores the holder's basic personal information, facial portrait, and fingerprint information in the chip. . The electronic ordinary passport uses a high-security smart card chip to ensure digital anti-counterfeiting performance, and uses a number of anti-counterfeiting technologies such as special-shaped color separation, glossy ink, laser perforation, and high-resolution holography to enhance the level of physical anti-counterfeiting.