Tongxin Micro Powers 3rd-generation ID Card and Digital Economy

China will accelerate the construction of new infrastructure such as the information networks, and promote industrial and consumption upgrading, according to an executive meeting of the State Council held on April 28. As new infrastructure is conducive to advancing the industrial upgrading, nurturing new growth drivers and promoting employment and entrepreneurship, efforts should be made to accelerate the construction of new infrastructure in light of the development needs, said the meeting. Meanwhile, the meeting also called on the government to make a big push to ensure 'six priorities' and stability in six areas in response to the needs of the society and the people.

From this point of view, the new infrastructure is facing unprecedented opportunities as China's economy will starts the digitalization in full swing. At the same time, social security card is essential to “people’s livelihood”, a part of the six priorities. This is good news for promoting the third-generation social card with the built-in chip from Tongxin Micro, as its powerful functionalities and broad application scenarios perfectly meet the requirements of national policies and the needs of "digital transformation”.

Compared with the 2nd-generation social security cards, the third generation features such additional features as the storage of biological profiles, non-contact card reading and accelerated small-amount payment. Moreover, it is deeply integrated with the Internet and big data to connect more social service channels through the online service platform for the social cards. This makes social security services for residents become more digital and intelligent.

Social security is relevant to the long-term stability of the country and the well-being of the people. In the process of promoting the orderly progress of the entire social security industry, the security chip suppliers who master the core technology shoulder great responsibilities. With deep insights into the development trend, Tongxin Micro has been making contributions to the progress and risk prevention of the social security undertaking with our high-quality chip solutions.

Aiming at the 3rd-generation social security card market, Tongxin Micro has launched a dual-interface social security card solution, which supports international and Chinese cryptographic algorithms and has four major functional advantages: large storage capacity, high security, strong reliability & durability, and wide application range. It perfectly aligns with existing market and future development trends.

Large storage capacity

In order to meet the needs of the society and people's livelihood, Tongxin Micro has created a number of large-capacity social security card chips for multi-application social security projects. In addition to social security identity certificates, self-service inquiry, medical settlement and traditional financial functions, such products also support additional functionalities such as benefit distribution, public management, urban transportation and smart city.

High level of security

It’s China’s first product receiving the international SOGIS CC EAL 5+ Certificate, China UnionPay Chip Certificate and OSCCA Level 2 Certificate, effectively protecting the information security of card holders.

Reliability and durability

The product meets the automotive-grade AEC-Q100 standard, supports up to 500,000 program/erase cycles and a data retention of as long as 25 years. With working temperature ranging from -40℃ to 105℃, it can be used even under harsh card environment, ensuring the security of the information in the cards.

Wide range of applications

Tongxin Micro’s products conform to the standards of more industries including social security card, bank card and transportation card. With rich experience in such fields as finance and transportation, Tongxin Micro can help card issuers integrate more applications to realize "one card with more functionalities".

More importantly, Tongxin Micro is mainly engaged in chip development, module packaging, and provision of personalized and differentiated solutions to meet client needs, help partners shorten migration cycles and accelerate the research and availability of the products.

Tongxin Micro’s security chips have been tested by the market. Since entering the 2nd-generation social security card market, we, together with our partners, have won several provincial projects to provide tailored security chips and solutions to such provinces as Shandong, Yunnan, Liaoning and Heilongjiang. In 2018, Hainan Province took the lead in launching the 3rd-generation social security card. Tongxin Micro, as one of the first-batch providers, again helped the construction and the transformation of the social security system in the province, hence meeting the growing needs of thousands of people for a better life.

As a major social security card chip supplier of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Tongxin Micro has been vigorously promoting the top-level design of social security undertakings for more than ten years, forming a full-process service chain from chip research and development, technical support to reading/writing devices. We’ve established our presence across China and built a good industry image thanks to our business reputation, high-quality after-sales service and professional technical team. During the practice, the company’s diversified business portfolios have been advancing together. With the global vision and innovation sense, Tongxin Micro is riding on the wave of the new-generation infrastructure development.

Nowadays, digital China is enjoying a promising prospect while all walks of life are advancing with the times. Joining hands with upstream and downstream partners, Tongxin Micro will continue making efforts to promote the healthy development of the people’s livelihood undertakings including social security through our premium products and boost the steadier growth of the digital economy via information technologies.