What's the difference between a medical card and a social security card?

The Social Security Card of the People's Republic of China is an integrated circuit (ic) card, which is uniformly planned by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and issued to the public by local human resources and social security departments, and used in various business fields of human resources and social security. This social security (individual) card is issued to urban workers, unemployed people and retirees, and is issued to employers as a social security (employer) card. In recent years, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has also upgraded its social security card to make it generally have financial functions. Social security cards have a wide range of functions. Cardholders can not only use the card for real-time settlement of medical insurance personal accounts, but also handle endowment insurance affairs; Go through the formalities of job registration and unemployment registration; Apply for unemployment insurance; Apply for employment training; Apply for labor ability appraisal and enjoy work-related injury insurance benefits; Handling labor and social security affairs online.

Social medical insurance card, referred to as medical insurance card or medical insurance card, is a special card for personal account of medical insurance. With the personal identity card as the identification code, the detailed information such as personal identity card number, name, gender, account capital expenditure and consumption are stored and recorded. The medical insurance card is undertaken by the local designated agent bank, which is a multi-functional debit card of the bank. After the insured unit pays the fee, the local medical insurance department will entrust the bank to transfer the personal account payment to the personal medical insurance card of the insured employee at the end of the month.