Resident Identity Card

Resident Identity Card
居民身份证
(above) and obverse (below) of a Resident Identity Card (Second-generation identification card)
TypeIdentity card
Issued by China
PurposeIdentification
Valid inPeople's Republic of China
EligibilityHukou registration required
CostRegistration fee: RMB20,
Replacement for lost or damaged cards: RMB40
Size85.60mm×54.00mm×1.00mm [1]
Resident Identity Card
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese居民身份证
Traditional Chinese居民身份證
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinjūmín shēnfènzhèng
Bopomofoㄐㄩ ㄇㄧㄣˊ ㄕㄣ ㄈㄣˋ ㄓㄥˋ
IPA[tɕý mǐn ʂə́n fə̂n ʈʂə̂ŋ]
Wu
Romanizationciu min sen ven tsen
Hakka
Romanizationgi24 min11 siin24 fun55 ziin55
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationGēuimàn Sānfánjing
IPA[kɵ́y mɐ̏n sɐ́n fɐ̌n tsēŋ]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJku-bîn sin-hūn-tsìng
Tibetan name
Tibetanགཞུང་གི་ལག་ཁྱེར་དང་པ་སེའི།
Zhuang name
ZhuangCuhminz Sonhfwnceng
Uyghur name
Uyghurكىملىك قانۇنى

The Resident Identity Card (Chinese: 居民身份证; pinyin: Jūmín Shēnfènzhèng) is an official identity document for personal identification in the People's Republic of China. According to the second chapter, tenth clause of the Resident Identity Card Law, residents are required to apply for resident identity cards from the local Public Security Bureau, sub-bureaus or local executive police stations.[2]

  1. ^ GA/T 448-2021 居民身份证总体技术要求, 中华人民共和国公安部, retrieved 2023-08-17
  2. ^ 中华人民共和国居民身份证法 – www.gov.cn