At the beginning of this year, the municipal government approved the "Opinions on the Implementation of Ningbo Citizen Card Project". According to the plan, by 20 15, with this small card, you can pay, settle accounts, inquire about transportation, education, water, electricity, communication, television and other kinds of consumption, eat and live, travel, shopping, entertainment, enjoy medical care, pension, work injury, childbirth and so on.
Ningbo is the first pilot city in China to implement electronic payment, and its informatization level is in a leading position among major cities in China. The launch of "Citizen Card Project" will accelerate the construction of "Digital Ningbo", and at the same time, it will also change the present situation of various cards and inconvenient use. According to reports, the citizen card has two main functions: information service and transaction payment. The former records personal basic information. With it, you can swipe your card when you go to a government department to handle affairs or go to a hospital to see a doctor, eliminating the trouble of registering and filling out forms again and again. The latter is a small registered "electronic wallet", which can be used to pay expenses below 1000 yuan, such as taking a bus, taking a taxi, shopping in a convenience store, etc.
The first to join the "big family" of citizen cards is the bus Yongcheng Tong IC card with 600,000 users at present. After being integrated with the citizen card, the functions of the existing bus IC card will not change, and it will not bring any trouble to the citizens to use the bus IC card. The existing recharge points, recharge methods and usage methods remain unchanged. Du Yonghua, deputy director of the Municipal Information Industry Bureau, believes that the citizen card project is a huge systematic project. It is necessary not only to integrate the resources of each system, but also to coordinate the interests of all departments and completely open up all the "information islands". A better solution is to be operated by a third party.
"The citizen card should be as popular as the Octopus card in Hong Kong, and it is definitely more practical and convenient than the Octopus card, because it also integrates various functions of government affairs." According to the person in charge of the citizen card service center, the first batch of citizen cards was originally planned to be launched at the end of this year. As this project is the first pilot project of multi-field application of financial IC cards approved by the People's Bank of China, the most advanced international key management standards are required. In order to ensure the quality of the system and ensure that citizens can use the citizen card more safely and safely, they are actively debugging the new system, and the release time will be postponed until the first half of next year.