China's ID Card Law Shows Care for Citizens, Law Experts

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China's ID Card Law Shows Care for Citizens, Law Experts

China's top legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), passed overwhelmingly the law of citizen identification card Saturday.

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China's top legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), passed overwhelmingly the law of citizen identification card Saturday.

The law, compared with the resident ID card regulations adopted in 1985, focused more on safeguarding the citizens' rights, said Ying Songnian, a member of the Committee for Internal and Judicial Affairs of the NPC and law professor with the National School of Administration.

According to the law, no organization or individual has the right to check or distrain citizen's ID card except for the police holding proper reasons. The police must keep confidential any personal information obtained from citizens' ID card.

The new ID card, with the application of integrated circuit (IC)technology, can be read by computer as well.

The new law enlarges the scope of ID card holders by including those below the age of 16, who may thus exercise their civil rights.

The low-income citizens will be less or not charged accordinglyfor the cost of their ID cards in accordance with the law.

"The law shows more care for citizens," said Ying, adding that the legislators took suggestions widely from the public during their discussion of the legislation.

Jiang Zhenghua, vice-chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, said that the ID card law means a great progress in improving the legal system and protecting citizens' legitimate rights.

The new law will be in effect as of January 1, 2004.

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