Time to face up to high-tech solution

Liu Yue'e manages her social security payments by swiping her smartphone and using facial recognition technology.

The self-employed businesswoman from East China's Zhejiang province connects through the online mobile payment app Alipay. The process takes less than five minutes.

Facial recognition technology was co-developed by Alipay and Megvii Technology Inc, an internet startup rolled out at Tsinghua University, China's top-ranking institute, in 2012.