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Health Code (健康码) — Hangzhou's Pandemic Status QR

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Claims, one by one

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Claim 1 clm-fdba0a6d8940c0c0 quantitative

Within 39 days of Hangzhou's launch, all 31 of China's provincial-level administrations had adopted health-code systems built on its template

Published field: impact · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: No support note recorded
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Decoding China's COVID-19 Health Code Apps: The Legal Challenges (peer-reviewed)

Source dossiers and revision state

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1: archives linked
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator: Hangzhou Municipal Government (Yuhang district pilot), with Alibaba Cloud, Ant Financial/Alipay and DingTalk
Actor types: city-government, private
Funding model: Not recorded
Funding description: Not recorded
Cost: Not recorded
Ownership: Not recorded
Decision rights: Not recorded
Exit conditions: Not recorded

6 source dossiers

How Alibaba built China's 'health code' system (TechNode) technode.com · background

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Stable source ID: src-06a011af0db7aea7
Publisher: Name not classified · technode.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2020-04-07
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-03
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Yuhang district task force with Ali Cloud/DingTalk/Alipay; colour-status meanings (green = travel freely, yellow = 1-week self-quarantine, red = 2-week home isolation).
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Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

杭州网 (Hangzhou News Center) hznews.hangzhou.com.cn · background

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Stable source ID: src-e5bc6ccc8aabbea0
Publisher: Name not classified · hznews.hangzhou.com.cn
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2020-02-18
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-03
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Yuhang pass precursor 10 Feb; citywide three-colour Hangzhou health code launched 11 Feb with 10 million first-day visits; provincewide 16 Feb; national version the same week.
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Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

Decoding China's COVID-19 Health Code Apps: The Legal Challenges (peer-reviewed) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID: src-d34748a4dc462590
Publisher: Name not classified · pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2020-02-06
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-03
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: Open archived copy ↗ · 2026-01-30
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Task force formed 6 Feb 2020, app launched 11 Feb; all 31 provincial governments adopted variants within 39 days.
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Claims linked: clm-fdba0a6d8940c0c0

City's Plan for Permanent 'Health Codes' Sparks Online Backlash (Sixth Tone) sixthtone.com · background

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Stable source ID: src-10c16d87c5806114
Publisher: Name not classified · sixthtone.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2020-05-25
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-03
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
May 2020: Hangzhou Health Commission proposed a permanent 0-100 lifestyle score; 86% of a Weibo poll opposed it.
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Chinese City Faces Backlash Over Proposal to Make Health Tracking App Permanent (RADII) radii.co · background

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Stable source ID: src-817c8e42b42bf93a
Publisher: Name not classified · radii.co
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2020-05-27
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-03
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
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Locator: Open the recorded source note
Four days after the proposal, Hangzhou officials walked it back, calling the scored code conceptual only.
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Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

杭州政协网 (Hangzhou CPPCC) hzzx.gov.cn · background

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Stable source ID: src-e980c6b662a77602
Publisher: Name not classified · hzzx.gov.cn
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2023-01-20
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-03
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
January 2023: the health-code mini-program was rebuilt into a medical-services platform after nationwide colour-code venue checks ended in December 2022.
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Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

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.