Concerns have been raised about China’s planned national digital health code system. 

China is developing an integrated online health platform that will include the digital health records of every resident.

The scheme has already sparked concerns about intensified state surveillance. 

China's National Health Commission says each resident will be given a “fully functional digital health code” as part of a National Health Informatisation Plan to “digitise national health information” by 2025.

Chinese citizens have raised concerns online about the digital health codes in the post-COVID world. 

COVID-19 health codes have been central to China’s hardline pandemic strategy, with a green health code required for entry to almost every public place in urban China and for travel between localities. 

The system has allegedly been exploited to limit people's movement for non-health-related reasons.

This has prompted fears that the expanded health code system will allow the CCP to even more closely surveil and control the populace.

China’s current COVID-19 health codes work through mobile phone apps such as WeChat or Alipay, tracking people's movements as users check in at locations and noting when users visit a COVID “hotspot” or test positive for coronavirus. 

Their status  is displayed as either green, yellow or red. 

Red means the person must be quarantined in a medical facility, while yellow indicates they can quarantine at home.

Under the expanded system, China says “each resident will have a dynamically managed digital health record and a full-featured electronic health code”. 

The new health codes will reportedly be created based on residents' identification numbers. 

The plan does not appear to include any measures to make accessing proper health care easier for the elderly or people lacking digital literacy.