Yi Jianlian's Chinese Citizen ID shows his birthday 10/27/1984

[yijianlian]

Yi's Citizen ID is 440301198410272713. Chinese Citizen ID is similar to SSN here. It is assigned at birth and cannot be changed. Yi's ID number clearly shows his birthday 19841027.

This ID number can be confirmed by visiting Chinese Government's Social Security Agency in Guangdong Province.

http://www.gdsi.gov.cn/jsp/query/personquery/allnewgrjbxx.jsp?loginname=440301198410272713&&xzqh=441900

If you can't read Chinese, here is the translation.

Basic Personal Information:
Name: Yi Jianlian
Sex: Male
Citizen ID #: 440301198410272713
Payment Status: Paying Social Security Tax
Last payment received: 200611

[ecuhus]

Wow, pretty interesting news on draft day. Thanks for the update, stranger.

Now the bigger question: how do you pronounce his last name? Zhehn-lin, Zhee-On-li-On, Zhang-lee-Ang?

[Hitster]

Nice for this to be confirmed, a couple of years could effect his draft position very slightly. Are we all sure that Greg Oden is actually only 19, he looks as if he could have been served alcohol several years ago without his age being queried.