

Date of birth – listed in the Gregorian calendar format, in YYYY年MM月DD日 Big-endian (ISO 8601) order.Ethnicity – as officially listed by the People's Republic of China.Gender – containing one character for either male (男) or female (女).First-generation ID cards contained handwritten names for rare Chinese characters, whilst the second-generation cards exclusively used computer-printed text in a larger font compared to that of the first generation, and do not support rarer characters.

Non-Chinese ethnic names and foreign names are transliterated into Chinese.
