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A working staff introduces electronic passport application procedures to citizens at reception hall of the exit-entry administration organ in Qingdao, a coastal city in east China's Shandong Province, March 15, 2012. Shandong began on Thursday to issue electronic passports containing electronic data storage chips, which can provide personal information such as photo and fingerprint, as an effort to foil forgers. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)