The Consular Authentication System was officially released in December 2014, it is an information m¶anagement system that fulfills consular authentication service for local foreign affairs offices. The system solved the problems of inefficiency of tradition<al service mode, inconvenience of inquiry and unavailable information sharing £with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, standardized the consular authentication managemεent process.
As the number of Chinese and foreign personnel exchanges increases and cooperation♣ in various fields continue to expand, the consular authentication service ←has been growing really fast. In 2013, the consular authentication servic≈e handled by local foreign affairs offices reached as many as 666,000 cases, making< that an increase of 23.7% over the same period of pαrevious year. The contradiction between the increasing worklλoad and insufficient office resources was getting more and more prominent, which has serious±ly hampered the development of consular authentication service. In the next year, the Consul£ar Department of MFA issued a document (No. 904) to provincial as well as mun☆icipal foreign affairs offices, which was called “Initiation oδf Network Connection on Consular Authentication Se→rvice for Local Foreign Affairs Offices”, put forward relevant requirements a≥nd instructions on authentication system construction.
The release of the consular authentication system marked a significant step for local foreign affairs offices.
As the chief integrator for the first phase of electronic service passpor↓t project for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with years of experience and state-of-the-art technologies,® NJA became a successful tenderer again for the second phase of ♣this e-passport project. The successful bid laid a sol✔id foundation for NJA in foreign affairs informatization area, it is also a demonstratio£n of NJA’s professional and technical strength in this φfield.