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

The full name of medical insurance card is medical insurance card, which 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, payment and consumption of account funds 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 medical insurance institution will entrust the personal account payment to the insured employee's personal medical insurance card at the end of each month.

The medical insurance card is an important voucher for the insured to purchase daily medical care. It is the carrier of personal account of medical insurance, which is used to record the basic information of the insured, including the basic medical insurance premium paid by the individual, the basic medical insurance premium paid by the employer in accordance with the prescribed proportion, other funds and interest. It is a non-financial special card for the insured to carry out basic medical consumption.

Social security card is an integrated circuit card (IC card) which is uniformly planned by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and issued to the society by local labor and social security departments and used in various business fields of labor and social security. Social security (individual) cards are issued to urban employees, unemployed people and retirees, and social security (employer) cards are issued to employers.

As the social security (personal) card is the focus of the card planning and standardization of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security at present, and most of the cards actually issued in various places are concentrated on this kind of card, the social security card we usually refer to refers to the social security (personal) card.