China to compare faces to eliminate fake hukous

China's Ministry of Public Security announced on Friday that all provinces in the country would set up a portrait comparison system by the end of 2014, in order to help solve the problem of mistaken, duplicated or fake Hukou, also known as household registration, China National Radio reports.

The ministry also stressed that achieving the uniqueness of residents' Hukou and ID number should start from its staff members.

Huang Ming, vice minister of Public Security, said that every policeman and official must promise that they and their family members only have one unique Hukou and ID number. Officials who help make fake Hukou or ID registration must be punished and dismissed from the public security system.

Till now, about 271,000 illegally-registered Hukou had been eliminated in China, and 149 cases of counterfeiting and selling Hukou had been investigated since this February.

The portrait comparison system has already been adopted in 25 provinces in China, and it will be used in the whole country by the end of this year. The system will help find out and solve the problem of one person with multiple Hukou, said Huang Shuangquan, deputy director of the ministry's security administration bureau