Chinese Government Introduces New Measures to Further Fine-Tune its Social Credit System, Seeks Worldwide Implementation
China’s social credit system is a government mechanism to track “the trustworthiness” – the loyalty to the communitarian government – of individuals, businesses, and organizations based on their compliance with laws and regulations.
Monday, a guideline featuring “23 policy measures” was issued by the General Office of the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), and other departments, as reported by Xinhuanet. The guideline seeks to enhance the system’s role in enforcing a unified national market, and addressing “challenges” like inconsistent regulatory frameworks and insufficient credit information sharing.
While the Xinhuanet article provides an overview, it does not list the 23 measures in detail. However, the “2024-2025 Action Plan for the Establishment of the Social Credit System,” published on June 5, 2024, offers insight into a comprehensive framework that aligns with the guideline’s likely objectives. This plan, formulated for the period 2024-2025, includes measures that generally correspond to the guideline – including legal standardization, credit information quality, evaluation systems, supervision, and international cooperation (so other nations can and will adopt China’s social credit blueprint).
The guideline acknowledges challenges such as fragmented regulatory frameworks and limited credit information sharing – insufficient centralization, which hinder “system efficiency“. Information security is a priority, with measures to prevent illegal data handling, as noted in the Xinhuanet article. This focus is crucial given public and international scrutiny over privacy and surveillance.
At this moment, we can deduct that the guideline includes the following categories and measures.
1. Legalization and Standardization
- Establish and complete credit regulations, including laws on social credit, provincial legislation, and updates to credit directories.
- Introduce management measures for ‘untrustworthy’ subject lists, enhance sharing, and improve deterrence.
2. Credit Information Quality
- Establish a unified credit information platform, further integrate resources across departments.
- Expand the implementation of a national sharing mechanism, standardize collection and use.
- Protect personal and business data, prevent leakage and misuse.
3. Credit Evaluation System
- Improve evaluation for market entities, ensure scientific accuracy. (Because, after all, political communitarianism is a scientific dictatorship. ‘Governed’ by unelected technocrats and bureaucrats who represent the faceless ‘community’.)
- Develop evaluation for government departments, enhance transparency. (Yes, “transparency“, similar to what DOGE is trying to achieve in the US.)
- Create evaluation for social organizations and individuals, ensure comprehensive assessment. (Everything, and everyone’s data must be logged, and accessible and at the disposal of the central government all of the time and anywhere in the country. No exceptions!)
4. Credit Supervision and Incentives
- Improve the implementation of the joint reward and punishment mechanisms, link credit to social services and ‘community’ participation.
- Establish credit restoration mechanisms, provide repair channels. (After reeducation or reorientation, one may avail of certain ‘privileges’ again.)
- Promote credit application in economy, society, and ecology. (The government will choose what you can consume, and which ‘health protocols’ you must submit to.)
5. International Cooperation
- Participate in international credit cooperation, promote mutual recognition.
- Internationalize China’s credit system, enhance global influence.
Here’s where you have more evidence of the fact that we are dealing with political communitarianism, and not just ‘technocracy’ or ‘algocracy’. China’s blueprint is meant to be implemented and enforced worldwide. Each country can adjust the general template in order to persuade its population, but the national mechanism’s output must be compatible with China’s, the UN’s and the WEF’s mechanisms and system protocols.
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