#1: [转帖]China to buy 3 billion RFID tags (1342 reads) 作者: valley, 时间: 2006-3-15 周三, 08:56 — 作者：valley 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
By 2009 nearly 3 billion RFID tags will have been shipped into China, a country of about 1.4 billion people, according to market forecast company In-Stat. The company said that 100 million RFID shipped into China in 2005 and the flow will increase in subsequent years.
The major application for the RFID tags would be for the identification of humans by way of China's second-generation resident ID card program, said In-Stat (Scottsdale, Ariz.). The shipments could easily be worth billions of dollars, according to price estimates from the firm.
“With a population of over 1.3 billion, the issuance of RFID-tag-inlaid Resident ID cards by the Ministry of Public Security is one of the biggest RFID projects in the world,” said Anty Zheng, an In-Stat analyst, in a statement. “More than one billion ID Cards will be issued before the end of 2008.”
In-Stat did not say which semiconductor maker of makers would supply the RFID chips for inclusion in cards, or which companies would make the cards or reader systems.
RFID tags vary in price from about 15 cents to over $200 the company said.
