SchlumbergerSema, a business segment of Schlumberger Limited, today launched its new Qianflex smart card, certified by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MOLSS) of the People's Republic of China. This marks the successful transition of the new Qianflex card from single banking application to multi-application capabilities, fully satisfying the extensive requirements of various core industries.
To date, SchlumbergerSema smart cards are among the selected few to receive certification from the MOLSS, having passed and met all the stringent requirements under the MOLSS Certification Program. The MOLSS has carried out strict and comprehensive evaluations with the Qianflex card, and concluded that it fully meets the requirements of Specifications of Social Security Card for Individual. It surpasses the limits of a single financial application, and is highly recommended for multiple applications in various fields, such as social security and multi-purpose payments in China. The new Qianflex card is compliant with both the PBOC ICC Card Specification and SINOPEC ICC Card Specification, and approved by the ICCR (Integrated Circuit Card Registration) bureau.
"It's great to import smart card technology into our social security system. We are confident that by doing so, it will help to enhance speedy information flow to enable our smooth transition to a higher level of modernization for the current system," stated MOLSS officials.
"We look to strengthening our cooperation with our Chinese partners and local authorities as we extend our world-leading smart card technology and experience to the Chinese market," said Lucas Witkam, vice president, e-Transaction Cards, SchlumbergerSema Asia. "The certification from the MOLSS is timely as it provides SchlumbergerSema with the prestige and credibility to promote and deploy our Qianflex card extensively in many fields, such as banking, retailing, self-service petrol retailing, social insurance, taxation, campus, traffic control and utilities. We will leverage both our technology and our excellent local development capability and partnerships to create more specific and comprehensive end-to-end solutions targeted at the banking, energy and utilities, and public sector areas within Chinese market."
