Shenzhen's talent household registration goes paperless, contactless

Shenzhen has launched the city’s first “One-Stop Talent Household Registration” service, providing a seamless experience characterized by “zero visits, no face-to-face interaction, and automatic approval.” 

This marks a significant milestone in optimizing the business environment and facilitating the efficient flow and allocation of talent resources. The streamlined service now fully covers all major categories, including recent college graduates, returning overseas talents, and in-service talent introductions.

The service utilizes unified identity authentication and user management through Guangdong Province’s government service network and the “iShenzhen” platform. By enhancing integration between the talent introduction system and the public security department’s application systems, the process simplifies household registration applications, significantly reducing repetitive data entry of personal details such as name, marital status, household type, ethnicity, number of dependent children, and eliminating the need to submit duplicate documents like household registers and residence certificates.

Review results from the talent introduction process are shared and updated in real time via data feedback loops, enabling automatic verification and issuance of household registration quota cards while reinforcing comprehensive supervision throughout the process.

Upon receiving registration data, the public security bureau’s system completes approvals instantaneously and forwards migration information for subsequent steps. Once the applicant’s online outbound migration from their place of origin is processed, the household registration in Shenzhen is automatically established, and an electronic household registration card is issued. This innovation breaks away from traditional paper-based household management, eliminates physical archives, and enables a truly one-stop, fully digital household migration service.

Previously, applicants had to make multiple in-person trips between Shenzhen and their hometown’s public security offices, with processing times exceeding a week.