Foreigners Can Finally Use the Beijing Health Kit to Prove Their Health Status. Here's How.

For weeks now, Beijingers have been relying on the official Beijing Health Kit app (健康宝) to prove that they are in good health and have completed the necessary 14-day quarantine in the capital. After its release, the app was quickly updated to allow users to query the health status for children and elderly family members who may not use smartphones, but until now, it was not available to foreigners without a Chinese ID.

Finally, a version of the app now allows users to log in using their passport. This will allow foreigners to easily show their official health status if questioned, and will solve issues that were caused by official guidelines that recommended that certain industries require customers to prove their status using the app. For ease of use, the app has also been translated into English.

Now that foreigners, as the final frontier of Beijing Health Kit inclusion, are able to use the app, it may finally become the ubiquitous resource for proving health status that the city had imagined, and may even replace the text message systems and other apps that pull from SIM card metadata to prove where they have been in the past 14 days. The health kit is more reliable proof, as it uses official identification rather than cell phone tower data.

For this reason, we recommend that you now use this app over the alternatives out there. Here's how:

  1. In WeChat, drag down on your chats to reveal the Mini-Program interface. In the search bar, type in 'Health Kit' to find the app. Enter the app, and select language as English (if preferred).
  2. Press 'log in' to register your profile. Enter your name and passport number before taking a picture of your passport photo page.
  3. Once you have registered, you can press 'Query on me' to display your status.
  4. If you have completed your quarantine and are not suspected of infection, the app will display the message "No abnormal conditions." It will also provide your name, passport number, as well as the time and date of the query. If you are asked to provide a QR code, you can press the blue and white icon in the top right corner.

Stay safe and healthy, Beijingers!

READ: Use this Mini-App to Check Which Parks Are Open and Book Tickets

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For me, after I clicked on the Results button I got a picture of my passport with a green border, which meant that I had passed the health check.

Seems like you are not the only one having trouble.

Unless you are required to specifically show the Health Kit app, I would use your mobile phone providers QR code to get a Green Pass. Most communities and police stations have all 3 QR codes for the 3 mobile phone providers.

tsindavid wrote:

What happen after you click on Result. Mine says it havent feedback and try later. I dont understand what is this and what should i do next.

Sikaote wrote:

The instructions for the Health Kit app are almost correct. For me, on android, to take the picture, clicking the camera shutter button caused the app to exit. To take a photo, press the Results button at the bottom of the screen.

What happen after you click on Result. Mine says it havent feedback and try later. I dont understand what is this and what should i do next.

Sikaote wrote:

The instructions for the Health Kit app are almost correct. For me, on android, to take the picture, clicking the camera shutter button caused the app to exit. To take a photo, press the Results button at the bottom of the screen.

Giovanni Martini wrote:
Sikaote wrote:
Giovanni Martini wrote:
Sikaote wrote:

Foreigners Can Finally Use the Beijing Health Kit to Prove Their Health Status.

In my limited expeience using this health kit certificate, until community baoan knows what the heck it is, these health certificates are utterly useless for every day use. None of the baoan I have had to interact with knows what they are, that is if they even bother to look at my phone.

More useless beauracy that solves nothing.

The nong baoan here in Yanjiao know and accept the app's testimony. My colleagues in Beijing report no problems. Maybe you're stuck with an obtuse gate guard. Which can be a drearier prospect than the malady itself.

I'm in Beijing. The frustrating part is the same baoan who denied entry for me to go to Jenny Lou's near The Place let me in several times this past week. I know all us foreign devils look alike but I am pretty sure I'm the only one who looks uncivilized. This Jenny XXX(X)'s in inside a community. The one near me has a poor selection of cheese. I'll go to the one near the German Embassy for cheese I guess.

My poorly expressed point was that the app is well enough known that your baoan was probably being wilfully obtuse.

Nah, he was genuinely befuddled when I showed him my updated health kit certificate. Like I said previously, he seemed bothered that I showed him the health kit app on my phone.

As for targeting me personally, I doubt that is the case because the same guy previously let me enter the compound several days before. Hopefully the next time I need cheese, the guy will have a day off.

Giovanni Martini wrote:
Sikaote wrote:

Foreigners Can Finally Use the Beijing Health Kit to Prove Their Health Status.

In my limited expeience using this health kit certificate, until community baoan knows what the heck it is, these health certificates are utterly useless for every day use. None of the baoan I have had to interact with knows what they are, that is if they even bother to look at my phone.

More useless beauracy that solves nothing.

The nong baoan here in Yanjiao know and accept the app's testimony. My colleagues in Beijing report no problems. Maybe you're stuck with an obtuse gate guard. Which can be a drearier prospect than the malady itself.

I'm in Beijing. The frustrating part is the same baoan who denied entry for me to go to Jenny Lou's near The Place let me in several times this past week. I know all us foreign devils look alike but I am pretty sure I'm the only one who looks uncivilized. This Jenny XXX(X)'s in inside a community. The one near me has a poor selection of cheese. I'll go to the one near the German Embassy for cheese I guess.

Foreigners Can Finally Use the Beijing Health Kit to Prove Their Health Status.

In my limited expeience using this health kit certificate, until community baoan knows what the heck it is, these health certificates are utterly useless for every day use. None of the baoan I have had to interact with knows what they are, that is if they even bother to look at my phone.

More useless beauracy that solves nothing.

The instructions for the Health Kit app are almost correct. For me, on android, to take the picture, clicking the camera shutter button caused the app to exit. To take a photo, press the Results button at the bottom of the screen.