Good helper for epidemic prevention and control
Health code really works
The audience scanned the health code at the entrance of the Beichen Fortune Center Cinema in Kunming, Yunnan Province. Photo by Chen Xinbo (issued by Xinhua News Agency)
In the community neighborhood committee of the Branch Office of Andingmen Street, Xiaojingchang Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing, a resident scans the code of the "Beijing Healthbao" Mini Program. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Huanzong
Scan the code with your mobile phone and enter with the green code. Nowadays, scanning the health code has become a habit of most Chinese when going to communities, companies, shopping malls, or taking transportation or even going to the vegetable market to buy food.
The small "health code" is like a necessary "life pass" that you must carry with you. It is used to prevent and control the new crown pneumonia epidemic and promote the resumption of work, production, and business. The "health code" rooted in mobile internet technology is replacing traditional certification methods to help people flow safely and orderly during epidemic prevention. According to incomplete statistics, since the outbreak of the epidemic, 31 provinces across the country have successively achieved full coverage of health codes.
How does the health code appear? How does it achieve "one yard to travel the world"? What role does it play in smart city construction and social public governance?
"Code" is very convenient
Take out your mobile phone, enter a social platform, click on the "Guizhou Health Code" applet to scan and register your information-61-year-old Wang Yinghua, a citizen of Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, is very familiar with this "program". Whether he is going for a walk in the park or buying vegetables at the vegetable market, he will first take out his mobile phone and do it again.
"With the health code, you can see your health status by scanning it, and you don't have to be as troublesome as before." Wang Yinghua said that before the health code, for the needs of epidemic prevention and control, individuals must be registered in and out of communities, hospitals, parks, etc. Information such as name, address, mobile phone number, and ID number is "too inconvenient, and there is no other way." When the epidemic was serious, he took his grandson to a community hospital once, and waited in line for half an hour before entering.
Nowadays, the health code has become an important tool for people to seek medical treatment, work, shop, and travel. This kind of “code” traffic makes it easier and faster for people to travel. It also makes the epidemic prevention and control under the background of normalization more efficient and the city operation more scientific and orderly.
"When I see the health code, especially when the residents scan the green code, I feel very relieved." Yan Yan, deputy director of the Community Construction Office of Jingshan Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, has been on duty at the community prevention and control checkpoint since the Spring Festival this year. , Just withdrawn a few days ago. Like many colleagues, the changes brought about by the scan code impressed her deeply.
Yan Yan introduced that since the outbreak, there have been more than 400 people in Jingshan Sub-district who are responsible for returning to Beijing and investigating returned personnel, as well as the sinking cadres and volunteers on duty in the community. In the past, their main energy was spent on "knocking on doors", telephone calls, etc. Manual investigation and manual registration of resident information.
In early March this year, the health code began to be used in Beijing. This not only reduces the workload of Yan Yan and his colleagues, but also greatly improves work efficiency. For example, she said, relying on the cooperation of health codes and residents' travel codes, staff can quickly understand the authenticity and accuracy of relevant personnel's epidemiological survey information, the situation of migrants, and residents' statements, making 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. According to the results of a questionnaire survey conducted by the People’s Think Tank of 5928 respondents through the Internet and WeChat public platforms recently, more than 90% of the respondents have applied for the health code. The role of control is highly recognized.
"From a macro perspective, the health code solves the problem of the safe and orderly movement of people across regions under the background of outbreaks of epidemics in local areas and the promotion of resumption of work and production, and while assisting community epidemic prevention and control work, it further improves grid services System." said Wang Hong, a researcher at the People's Think Tank.
Safe and accurate without adding chaos
In early February of this year, many residents in Shenzhen were surprised to find that they don’t need to fill in information at the gate or apply for a temporary pass when entering and leaving the community. They only need to log in to the "Shen I You" platform at home to enter health information, receive an exclusive health code, and enter and exit the community. Just light "Code". With the launch of the health code, Shenzhen became one of the earliest cities in the country to realize "Travel by code".
Is it possible to make a "code" that can replace paper passes to reduce direct personnel contact and repeated information filling? This is the original intention of the Tencent Cloud government team to develop the Shenzhen Health Code.
"From paper certificates to digital graphics codes, it seems simple, but in fact there are many hurdles." said Li Xiaohui, technical director of Tencent Cloud's government affairs industry. From a process perspective, it is necessary to assist the local government to quickly clarify 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 perspective of goals, the health code should achieve the function of allowing relevant data to be quickly transmitted from the front line to the government decision-making agency, and timely transmission of government decision-making and service information to residents and enterprises; at the same time, enterprises only build channels and platforms, and do not retain relevant data to ensure Data security of information reported by the public.
Despite the difficulties, it took only 7 days for the first version of the Shenzhen Health Code to go live, and the version was continuously updated according to local needs. Behind the high speed of innovation is the full dedication of Li Xiaohui and his colleagues. "Almost all of our departments are involved, and the company's other product teams and security teams guarantee the entire 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.
In general, the health code systems of various regions present many common features. First, they are convenient and fast, and take full account of factors such as the age and educational level of residents. For example, Hangzhou Health Code has launched an agency application, which can display the health code by swiping the citizen card, which solves the problem of using the health code for people without smartphones. The second is safety. For example, the Beijing Municipal Government stipulates that all data of "Healthbao" is retained by the municipal government and is only used for epidemic prevention; and every time that day expires, all relevant data will be invalidated, so that information protection is automated and data storage is standardized. The third is accurate. Through the verification and comparison with national databases such as confirmed and suspected case database, close contact database, inter-provincial health code database, and data from health, public security, railway, civil aviation and other departments, authoritative and reliable results are generated.
"In terms of epidemic prevention and control, the health code only helps and does not add to the chaos." Pan Helin, executive director of the Institute of Digital Economy, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, said that the health code only obtains basic information and health information of residents; in the process of use, it mainly passes Color recognition, and only display part of personal information, greatly reducing the risk of personal privacy exposure.
Make social governance more warm
As the national epidemic prevention and control becomes normal, how can we unify the health code standards of various regions and truly realize "one code will go to the world"?
At the end of April this year, the "Personal Health Information Code" series of national standards were released, which means that the personal health information code will achieve unified code system, unified display mode, and unified data content. Experts said that to fully realize the mutual recognition of health codes in various regions, it is necessary for all regions to further improve the prevention and control system, recognize the health codes presented 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 health code systems of various regions should be opened up, so that the health codes of each province connected to the central hub can achieve "one access and mutual recognition". "Using the central hub status of the national platform to connect and manage distributed health code services in various regions."
Regarding the future direction of the health code, the results of a survey by the People’s Think Tank show that over 90% of the respondents hope that the health code will play a more important role in the post-epidemic era, especially in the fields of health care, urban governance, transportation, travel, and cultural tourism.
Li Xiaohui said that the health code is a product that serves the people's livelihood, and many new ideas have been incubated during the research and development process. For example, in future urban governance and urban service scenarios, digital graphics are a good channel to connect residents, governments, legal persons, social organizations, etc., and more services can be provided through technological upgrades in the future.
The health code can play a greater role by improving the construction of related systems and mechanisms. Dong Yizhi, a lawyer at Shanghai Zhengce Law Firm, suggested that laws and regulations should be improved as soon as possible to clarify the authority of government departments to capture and use epidemic-related data and information uploaded by citizens, as well as supervision mechanisms and legal responsibilities. In the future, for project expenditures involving major emergencies and public health safety, the government can purchase services to ensure the public welfare of projects and effectively supervise R&D enterprises.
“The health code brings a lot of enlightenment 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; Code fully applies artificial intelligence, big data, mobile communications, cloud computing, blockchain and other technologies for actual combat training, providing new means of refined, precise and rapid management for social governance.
"When everyone can easily and quickly submit their personal needs to the public platform, it means that in the future urban governance will become more emphasis on humanistic care, and social governance will be warmer." Pan Helin said.
Further reading
Hangzhou puts a health code on the road
The municipal road health monitoring system "Smart Road Chief", an important module for the third phase of the "Cloud on Urban Management" launched in Xiacheng District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, has recently been launched. The system divides the road in the lower city area into millions of small squares of 1 square meter. Each small square corresponds to a red, yellow, and green "health code". Red means "unhealthy" and yellow means "sub-health". , Green means "healthy". The system will mark millions of points with corresponding positioning and information tags, and use the 24-hour mobile "intelligent sensing device" to feed back 16 kinds of disease conditions such as potholes, subsidences, cracks, and defective manhole covers in real time. Cloud, 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." said Zhang Yiheng, director of the Office of Urban Management Bureau in Xiacheng District.
The core of the "smart road" is big data computing and transmission. How to make data safer and more reliable and share it? The system uses blockchain technology. The data output by the system analysis is authorized by the blockchain encryption algorithm and the certificate, and the “road information storage and sharing” function is implanted in the “road intelligent system”, which not only can effectively ensure that the road maintenance index is safer, more real, and convenient. The data can also be shared with the traffic police, transportation, municipal and other departments. After ordinary citizens install mobile phone sensors and upload the data, they can be converted into incentive values to get rewards, which truly realizes "the road can be read and the temperature is managed."
Currently, Xiacheng District has achieved informatization coverage of nearly 200 roads and millions of points in the district. The average time to find road 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 to include road surface water and road garbage issues into the monitoring range.
(Source: Hangzhou Daily)
Peng Xunwen