Scan the code with your mobile phone and enter with the green code. Nowadays, scanning the health code has become the habit of most Chinese people when they go in and out of communities, companies, shopping malls, or take transportation or even go to the vegetable market to buy food.
The small "health code", like a necessary "life pass", has played a great role in preventing and controlling the COVID-19 epidemic and promoting the resumption of work, production and business. The "health code" rooted in mobile internet technology is replacing the traditional proof method to help people flow safely and orderly during epidemic prevention. According to incomplete statistics, since the outbreak, 31 provinces across the country have achieved full coverage of health codes.
How did the health code appear? How does it achieve "one yard goes to the world"? What role does it play in the construction of smart cities and social public governance?
It is very convenient to pass on the code.
Take out your mobile phone, enter a social platform, click on the "Guizhou Health Code" applet, and register my information by scanning the code-61-year-old Wang Yinghua, a citizen of Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, knows this "program" by heart. Whether going for a walk in the park or going to the vegetable market to buy food, he will first take out his mobile phone and do it again.
"With the health code, you can see the health status at a glance, so you don’t have to be so troublesome as before." Wang Yinghua said that before there is a health code, for the sake of epidemic prevention and control, it is necessary to register personal name, address, mobile phone number, ID number and other information when entering and leaving communities, hospitals and parks. "It is too inconvenient and there is no other way." When the epidemic was serious, he once took his grandson to a community hospital and waited in line for half an hour before entering the door.
Nowadays, health code has become an important tool for people to seek medical treatment, work, shop and travel. This kind of "code" traffic makes people travel more conveniently and quickly, and also makes the epidemic prevention and control more efficient and the city operation more scientific and orderly under the background of normalization.
"I feel particularly at ease when I see the health code, especially when I see the residents scanning the green code." Yan Yan, deputy director of Jingshan Street Community Construction Office in Dongcheng District, Beijing, has been on duty at the community prevention and control bayonet since the Spring Festival this year, and was removed a few days ago. Like many colleagues, she was deeply impressed by the changes brought by scanning code.
Yan Yan introduced that since the outbreak, there have been more than 400 workers in Jingshan Street who are responsible for returning to Beijing and returning personnel, and sinking cadres and volunteers on duty in the community. In the past, their main energy was spent on manual investigation and manual registration of residents’ information through "knocking on the door" and telephone calls.
At the beginning of March this year, health codes began to be used in Beijing. This not only lightens the workload of Yan Yan and his colleagues, but also greatly improves the work efficiency. For example, she said that relying on the cooperation of health code and residents’ travel code, staff can quickly understand the authenticity and accuracy of epidemiological investigation information of relevant personnel, the situation of floating personnel and residents’ statements, so as to make epidemic prevention and control more accurate.
Statistics show that the whole country has basically achieved full coverage of health codes except Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The people’s think tank recently conducted a questionnaire survey on 5,928 respondents through the Internet and WeChat public platform. The results show that over 90% of the respondents have applied for health codes, and the public feels better about the use of health codes as a whole, and has a high recognition of its role in epidemic prevention and control.
"From a macro perspective, the health code has solved the problem of people’s safe and orderly flow across regions in the context of local epidemics and promoting the resumption of work and production, and has further improved the grid service system while helping the prevention and control of community epidemics." Wang Hong, a researcher at the People’s Think Tank, said.
Safe, accurate and not disturbing.
At the beginning of February this year, many residents in Shenzhen were surprised to find that they don’t need to fill in information or apply for a temporary pass at the gate to enter and leave the community. They just need to log in to the platform such as "Shen I You" at home to enter health information, get the exclusive health code, and light the "code" when entering and leaving the community. With the launch of health codes, Shenzhen has become the first city in China to realize "traveling by codes".
Can you make a "code" that can replace the paper pass, so as to reduce the direct contact between people and the repeated filling of information? This is the original intention of Tencent Cloud government team to develop Shenzhen Health Code.
"From paper proof to digital code, it seems simple, but actually it takes a lot of hurdles." Li Xiaohui, technical director of Tencent Cloud’s government affairs industry, said that from the process point of view, it is necessary to assist the local government to quickly define and establish data collection standards, and design a set of technical architecture that can support tens of millions of users online and ensure its availability. From the goal, health code should realize the function of quickly transmitting relevant data from the front line to government decision-making institutions, and timely transmitting government decision-making and service information to residents and enterprises; At the same time, enterprises only build channels and platforms, and do not keep relevant data to ensure the data security of public information.
Despite the difficulties, the first version of Shenzhen Health Code took only seven days to go online, and the version was constantly updated according to local needs. Behind the innovative speed is the full commitment of Li Xiaohui and his colleagues. "Almost all our departments are involved, and other product teams and security teams of the company guarantee the whole process. It can be said that the company is supporting it."
Today, Internet companies such as Tencent and Ali are providing technical support for health codes in more and more cities.
Generally speaking, the health code systems in different places have many common characteristics. First, they are convenient and fast, and they fully consider the age and education level of residents. For example, Hangzhou Health Code launched the agency application, and the health code was displayed by swiping the citizen card, which solved the problem of using the health code for people without smart phones. The second is safety. For example, the Beijing Municipal Government stipulates that all data of "Health Treasure" shall be kept in the municipal government and used only for epidemic prevention work; And every time the day expires, all relevant data will be invalid, so as to achieve automation of information protection and standardization of data storage. The third is accuracy. Through the verification and comparison with the national databases such as confirmed and suspected case database, close contact database and inter-provincial health code database, and the data of health care, public security, railway, civil aviation and other departments, authoritative and reliable results are generated.
"In the prevention and control of the epidemic, the health code only helps and does not add chaos." Pan Helin, executive director of the Digital Economy Research Institute of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, said that the health code only obtains basic information and health information of residents; In the use process, mainly through color recognition, and only part of personal information is displayed, which greatly reduces the risk of personal privacy exposure.
Let social governance have more temperature.
With the normalization of national epidemic prevention and control, how to unify local health code standards and truly realize "one code goes to the world"?
At the end of April this year, a series of national standards of Personal Health Information Code were released, which means that the personal health information code will realize the unification of coding system, display mode and data content. Experts said that to fully realize the mutual recognition of health codes in different places, it is necessary for all places to further improve the prevention and control system and mechanism, recognize the health codes produced by outsiders, and upgrade the local health code system according to the new national standard.
Li Xiaohui suggested that relying on the existing national integrated government service platform as the central hub, the local health code systems should be opened, so that each province’s health code connected to the central hub can realize "one access and all mutual recognition". "Use the central hub position of the national platform to connect and manage the distributed health code services in various places."
Regarding the future trend of health code, the survey results of People’s Think Tank show that over 90% of the respondents hope that health code will play a more important role in the post-epidemic era, especially in the fields of health, urban governance, transportation and entertainment.
Li Xiaohui said that Health Code is a product that serves the people’s livelihood, and many new ideas have been hatched in the research and development process. For example, in the future urban governance and urban service scenarios, digital map code is a good channel to connect residents, governments, legal persons and social organizations, and more services can be provided through technological upgrading in the future.
Only by improving the relevant institutional mechanisms can health codes play a greater role. Dong Yizhi, a lawyer of Shanghai Zhengce Law Firm, suggested that laws and regulations should be improved as soon as possible, and the authority of government departments to capture and use data and information related to the epidemic, as well as the supervision mechanism and legal responsibility should be clarified. In the future, the government can purchase services to ensure the public welfare of projects and effectively supervise R&D enterprises.
"Health code brings a lot of inspiration to social governance innovation and smart city construction." Pan Helin said that the rapid establishment of a cross-provincial mutual recognition mechanism for health code information has accumulated experience for the national unification of other types of government information in the future; This health code comprehensively applies artificial intelligence, big data, mobile communication, cloud computing, blockchain and other technologies for actual combat training, providing a new means of refined, accurate and rapid management for social governance.
"When everyone can submit their personal needs to the public platform conveniently and quickly, it means that urban governance will pay more attention to humanistic care in the future, and social governance will be more temperature-sensitive." Pan and Lin said.
Extended reading
Hangzhou put a health code on the road.
The municipal road health monitoring system "Smart Road Chief", an important module of the third phase of the "Cloud City Management" launched in Xiacheng District of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, has recently been launched. The system divides the pavement in the downtown area into millions of square meters, and each square meter corresponds to a red, yellow and green "health code". Red means "unhealthy", yellow means "sub-health" and green means "healthy". The system puts corresponding positioning and information labels on millions of points, and feeds back 16 diseases such as potholes, subsidence, cracks and defective manhole covers on the points to the cloud in real time through the "intelligent sensing equipment" that moves 24 hours, so as to achieve real-time monitoring, classification and identification, intelligent push and continuous follow-up. "We use health codes to manage roads, inspired by epidemic prevention and control." Zhang Yiheng, director of the Xiacheng Urban Management Bureau Office, said.
The core of "Smart Road Length" is the calculation and transmission of big data. How to make data more secure and reliable and realize sharing? The system uses blockchain technology. The data analyzed and output by the system is authorized by the blockchain encryption algorithm and certificate permission, and the function of "road information storage and certificate sharing" is implanted in the "road intelligent system", which not only can effectively ensure that the road maintenance index is safer, more authentic and more convenient, but also can share the generated data with traffic police, transportation, municipal administration and other departments. After ordinary citizens install mobile phone sensors to upload data, they can also be converted into incentive values to get rewards, thus truly realizing "road surface can be read and managed with temperature".
At present, Xiacheng District has achieved information coverage for nearly 200 roads and millions of points in the area. The average time for finding pavement problems has been shortened from 5-7 days to 1-2 days.
According to reports, the "Smart Road Length" system will be upgraded in the next step, and problems such as road surface water and road garbage will be included in the monitoring scope.