Visits to Guiyang affairs applet hits 5.17 million

By the end of November, the first municipal WeChat applet for  Guiyang's affairs -- Shuzhi Guiyang -- on the government and people's  livelihoods, was a major success according to local media reports.

It registered about 89,000 real name users, about 37,000 monthly  active users and 5.176 million cumulative visits.

From the end of May the city of Guiyang, capital of southwestern  Guizhou province, worked on improving the service functions of the WeChat  applet.

Officials said that as of the end of November, Shuzhi Guiyang had  made it possible for users to access and handle a wide range of services. They  cover the areas of public security, the housing provident fund, human resources  and social security, medical insurance and information about water, electricity  and gas.

At present, six high-frequency used government services -- including  medical insurance registration in different places, withdrawals from the housing  provident fund after retirement and applications for disabled auxiliary  equipment -- can be handled online with the applet.

Officials said that next Guiyang will extend connections for the  Shuzhi Guiyang WeChat applet to the provincial government service mobile  terminal.

Plans are for it to access more provincial high-frequency government  services and continue to increase the number of services that can be handled by  residents.

It is estimated that 100 high-frequency government affairs services  will be processed online by the end of the  year.