Australian-Chinese Jihuaxia led the first new "green card" to Yunnan Province. (photo by Chinese website for overseas Chinese)
According to the news cited by the Chinese overseas Chinese website Yunnan, on September 7, the exit and entry Administration of the Kunming Municipal Public Security Bureau said that Yunnan issued the first new version of its permanent residence identity card for foreigners. As the talents introduced by Thousand talents Plan, Chinese of Australian nationality Ji Huaxia received the first new "green card" issued by Yunnan Province.
According to reports, Ji Xiahua is a national special expert, the first batch of national "Thousand talents Plan" to introduce talent, the introduction of Yunnan North Ored photoelectric Technology Co., Ltd., technical director, has been in Kunming for 10 years. Jixiahua said that when he first arrived, he had to go back to Australia every two years to apply for new visas and renewal, which is rather troublesome. "Old card" (old version of the permanent residence card) hotel, ticket purchase is not very convenient, and Chinese residents still have a lot of differences.
"but now it`s much easier to get a new `green card,` with which you can buy a train ticket, open an account, and make it easier to stay permanently in China."
Jin Jie, deputy director of the exit and entry Administration of the Kunming Municipal Public Security Bureau, said: in order to further improve the level of service management for permanent resident foreigners and enhance the convenience of the use of permanent residence certificates for foreigners, In mid-June this year, the Ministry of Public Security decided to issue a permanent residence card for foreigners and to stop issuing an old version of the permanent residence permit for foreigners.
The entry and exit Administration of the Municipal Public Security Bureau started the work of issuing permanent residence identity cards for foreigners on June 1. So far, two batches of 35 new applications for permanent residence identity cards have been accepted, of which the first 20 have been completed. "
It is reported that the Chinese version of the new document is referred to as "permanent residence permit (PRC)," referring to the technical standards for second-generation identity cards, and the holder`s name, gender, date of birth, nationality, and duration of validity will be taken into account. Personal data and management information such as issuing authority and document number are written into the chip, which can be read by the second generation resident ID card reader. In other words, foreigners who hold new "green cards" will be able to use them as identity cards when dealing with finance, education, medical care, transportation, accommodation, communications, work, taxation and social insurance, property registration, litigation, etc.
In addition, after the introduction of the new permanent residence card for foreigners, the old version of the permanent residence permit for foreigners can still be used. Foreigners holding an old permanent residence permit simply submit their valid passport, recent photos, old version documents and other application materials to exchange their new documents.
