China Overseas Chinese Network, February 17th: These businesses can be done without returning to China!

  In order to better serve overseas Chinese, Chinese students and other groups, many overseas Chinese hometowns and embassies and consulates have recently introduced convenient measures. Let's take a look!

Fuzhou, Fujian: Set up 30 overseas service stations for police and overseas affairs

  At the beginning of February, the Overseas 110 Alarm Service Desk of the Public Security Bureau of Fuzhou City, Fujian Province launched 3 cross-border convenience services for overseas Chinese living in Fuzhou for overseas Chinese living in Fuzhou. , information change "handheld office" and a series of traffic management services.

Fuzhou traffic police remotely handle the extension and replacement of driver's license for overseas Chinese.

Photo courtesy of Fuzhou Public Security Bureau

  According to reports, relying on the Fuzhou Public Security Overseas 110 Alarm Service Desk, overseas Chinese can call "0086-591-110" without submitting application materials, and can directly apply for the extension of the renewal of the certificate, the extension of the examination, and the extension of the submission of the physical condition certificate. The extension period of the driver's license shall not exceed 3 years.

  Overseas compatriots can go through the overseas 110 alarm service desk. After the real-name authentication is successful, they can modify the contact information and contact address of the driver's license on their mobile phones without returning to their hometown or submitting paper materials.

  Fuzhou Public Security has also cooperated with overseas organizations with many overseas Chinese from Fuzhou to set up 30 "Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Stations", involving 25 cities in 21 countries.

Overseas Chinese can go to the service station for a remote physical examination after making an appointment.

After passing the physical examination, the traffic police department directly handles the expiry of the certificate.

  According to the "Fujian Daily" report, after the opening of the alarm service desk, overseas alarm calls are mainly concentrated in the United States, Spain, Argentina, Japan and other places where overseas Chinese from Fuzhou are concentrated, mainly involving traffic management business and household registration business, such as motor vehicle driving. Cards, resident ID cards are about to expire, and other problems.

  This allows overseas Chinese from Fuzhou who are overseas to truly experience the overseas version of the "one trip without running" service.

Sichuan: Build the world's second "Tianfu Cloud Medicine Overseas Huiqiao Telemedicine Station"

  On January 27, the Sichuan Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Sichuan Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, the TCM Hospital Affiliated to Southwest Medical University, and the Argentine Overseas Chinese Assistance Center jointly built the world's second "Tianfu Yunyi·Overseas Huiqiao Telemedicine Station" in Argentina. Buenos Aires and Sichuan Luzhou were successfully connected and officially opened.

  It is reported that after the "Tianfu Cloud Medicine·Overseas Huiqiao Telemedicine Station" in Argentina is completed and put into use, famous doctors and experts from Sichuan will use this platform to provide thoughtful and accurate diagnosis and treatment services and professional lectures to the overseas Chinese in Afghanistan through the cloud, which will effectively alleviate the need for people living in Afghanistan. The overseas Chinese continue to fight the epidemic and seek daily medical treatment urgently.

  In fact, as early as February 2021, the first "Tianfu Cloud Doctor Overseas Huiqiao Telemedicine Station" was built and opened in Spain.

Up to now, 13 sessions of professional and high-quality online diagnosis and treatment, Chinese medicine health care lectures and other services have been carried out, which effectively alleviated the difficulty of seeing a doctor during the epidemic of Spanish overseas Chinese.

Consulate General in Vancouver: Launching "VR Virtual Service Hall"

  In addition to these recent domestic initiatives to benefit overseas Chinese, the Chinese Consulate General in Vancouver has also launched the "Chinese Student Home VR Virtual Service Hall".

  According to the Consulate General, there are 10 service platforms in the VR virtual service hall of Vancouver Chinese Students Home, including: admission preparation, colleges and universities in the consular district, management of public study abroad, information on self-funded study abroad, joining the student union, safe study abroad, consular protection , study abroad mutual aid, employment and entrepreneurship, news notices.

The scene of the VR virtual service hall of the Vancouver Chinese Student Home.

Photo courtesy of the Chinese Consulate General in Vancouver

  Guided by the needs of international students, the virtual service hall is designed with an interactive, intelligent and standardized online virtual situation based on realistic scenarios to provide one-stop VR scenario services for Chinese students studying abroad in the consular district, especially during the epidemic. The "metaverse" of study abroad services.

  In addition, during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, a number of Chinese embassies and consulates abroad also distributed "Spring Festival packages" to local overseas Chinese, Chinese students studying abroad, and scattered stranded people.

  In addition to the daily necessary anti-epidemic materials, the "Spring Festival package" also includes Spring Festival couplets, window grilles, greeting cards, condolence letters and other items.

Let Chinese compatriots overseas feel the warmth and care from the motherland.

  Overseas Chinese and international students have expressed that the "Spring Festival package" is full of the motherland's care and concern for overseas Chinese and foreign students. Make due contributions to the development of friendly relations in China.

  (Source of manuscript: WeChat official account of China Overseas Chinese Network; ID: qiaowangzhongguo; Source: Xinhuanet, China News Network, Fujian Daily, the website of the Chinese Consulate General in Vancouver, etc.; Author: Zeng Xiaowei)