China eID is the electronic identity carried by the People's Republic of China resident identity card. The card issued by the Ministry of Public Security has a contactless chip. When the holder taps it against a phone with an NFC reader, the chip is read and the identity is confirmed against the official record, so the confirmation comes from the issuing authority rather than from a photograph of the card. A face check can be run against the record in the same session.
Why it matters
A scan of a Mainland identity card is easy to edit and cannot be checked by a Hong Kong firm. A chip read with a face check is evidence from the source. For a Hong Kong bank, insurer or wealth manager with Mainland customers, it answers the identity element of customer due diligence without the customer travelling to a branch.
The transfer to Hong Kong
The result is personal information of a Mainland resident, so it leaves the Mainland only under a route the PIPL allows. Fill Easy (Nansha) has filed a Standard Contract for cross-border personal information transfer (Filing No. 202500031), and the result reaches the Hong Kong client under that filing with the individual's consent.
How Fill Easy relates to it
Fill Easy markets its China eID verification as SinoConnect, part of GovVerify. The individual needs their resident identity card and a phone with NFC; it works in their own phone, in an agent's tablet or inside the client's app. The check returns the resident ID with a face check, and bank card, mobile number, address, education and court record checks can be added to the same request. See China eID verification.