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Xiaoshan Airport Facial-Recognition Security & One-ID Travel

Revision 2026-08-27-claims-and-sources · effective 2026-08-02

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 11 claims and 4 source dossiers.

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source dossiers
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publication dates recorded
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archives linked
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exact locators
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Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-6565d21a6e781138 quantitative
adopted Alibaba Cloud's 'ET Aviation Brain' facial-recognition identity checks in its T3 terminal from June 2018
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Both July 2018 reports describe the ET Aviation Brain facial-recognition identity check running in Xiaoshan's T3 terminal, in service since June 2018.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Hangzhou News — facial recognition security
  2. China News — 3-second security check
Claim 2 clm-00db25c071ebd46a quantitative
cutting the identity-check step at security from a manual look-and-compare to about 3 seconds per passenger with a claimed 99.6%+ match accuracy
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The China News report gives the three-second per-passenger check time and the 99.6%-plus match rate; the accuracy figure is stated by the operator and its supplier, not independently measured.
Caveat
The 99.6% figure is a vendor specification. No false-match or false-reject rate for the deployed system has been published.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. China News — 3-second security check
Claim 3 clm-8210bcc5dd4743a1 descriptive
in its first month the system caught five travellers using someone else's ID
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The Hangzhou News report states that five passengers travelling on another person's identity document were detected in the first month of operation.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Hangzhou News — facial recognition security
Claim 4 clm-311110e3e0e79e18 quantitative
By the end of 2022 the airport extended this into full 'one-ID travel' for domestic departures — passengers check bags, clear security and board using only their ID card, without a paper boarding pass or QR code
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The municipal announcement of 30 December 2022 describes domestic departing passengers completing bag drop, security and boarding with the identity card alone.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Hangzhou Municipal Government — one-ID travel
Claim 5 clm-b8c5724dccc4f6eb quantitative
international departures gained electronic boarding passes in December 2024
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The Xiaoshan district announcement of 18 December 2024 covers the extension of electronic boarding passes to international departures.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Xiaoshan District Government — electronic boarding pass
Claim 6 clm-d1b51c4195151c2c descriptive
The airport is run by the provincial Zhejiang Airport Group, not the city government
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The municipal announcement attributes the airport and the one-ID rollout to Zhejiang Airport Group, the provincial operator, rather than to a city department.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Hangzhou Municipal Government — one-ID travel
Claim 7 clm-fb9980e2ef832822 quantitative
Identity check time cut to ~3 seconds per passenger versus manual comparison, claimed accuracy above 99.6%
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Same source as the snippet claim: three seconds per passenger, accuracy above 99.6% as stated by operator and supplier.
Caveat
Accuracy is an operator/supplier claim; no error rate for the deployed system is public.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. China News — 3-second security check
Claim 8 clm-0c107aef4da16670 quantitative
caught 5 people travelling on someone else's ID in the technology's first month at T3 (2018)
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The July 2018 report gives five detections in the first month at T3.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Hangzhou News — facial recognition security
Claim 9 clm-8058800e7f371726 quantitative
full domestic 'one-ID' coverage achieved by end of 2022
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The municipal announcement of 30 December 2022 reports domestic one-ID travel as complete.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Hangzhou Municipal Government — one-ID travel
Claim 10 clm-bbe909342dd63ceb quantitative
the 99.6% match accuracy is a supplier specification, and no false-match or false-reject rate has been published for the deployed system
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The accuracy figure appears only as a stated specification alongside the supplier's name; none of the four sources publishes an error rate measured in service.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. China News — 3-second security check
Claim 11 clm-905b547f9a50c705 descriptive
the airport belongs to the provincial Zhejiang Airport Group, so the city's most-cited facial-recognition installation is not run by the city at all
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The municipal announcement itself names the provincial group as operator.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Hangzhou Municipal Government — one-ID travel

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Zhejiang Airport Group / Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, using Alibaba Cloud's ET Aviation Brain
Actor types
regional-government
Funding model
ppp
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
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Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

4 source dossiers

Hangzhou News — facial recognition security hznews.hangzhou.com.cn · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-8ad831b43f777fab
Publisher
Name not classified · hznews.hangzhou.com.cn
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2018-07-14
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-02
Dossier created
2026-09-02
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Launch date (June 2018), 3-second processing time, 99.6% accuracy claim, 5-passenger catch figure in first month.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
China News — 3-second security check chinanews.com.cn · 4 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-98004da10d1786e6
Publisher
Name not classified · chinanews.com.cn
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2018-07-14
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-02
Dossier created
2026-09-02
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Independent press corroboration of the same facts.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Hangzhou Municipal Government — one-ID travel hangzhou.gov.cn · 4 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-72e480bd40565055
Publisher
Name not classified · hangzhou.gov.cn
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2022-12-30
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-02
Dossier created
2026-09-02
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Confirms full domestic 'one-ID' departure coverage achieved by end of 2022.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Xiaoshan District Government — electronic boarding pass xiaoshan.gov.cn · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-0f284f390923385a
Publisher
Name not classified · xiaoshan.gov.cn
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2024-12-18
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-02
Dossier created
2026-09-02
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

December 2024 international-departure electronic boarding pass extension, confirming the system is still live and expanding.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.