The Chinese government said that it will apply its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people and the tourists who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year.Published on : Tuesday, March 20, 2018
The Chinese government said that it will apply its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people and the tourists who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year.
Chinese government will put the people in the restricted lists included those found to have committed misleading acts like spreading false information about terrorism and causing trouble on flights, as well as those who used expired tickets or smoked on trains.
Those found to have committed financial wrongdoings, such as employers who failed to pay social insurance or people who have failed to pay fines, would also face these restrictions.
The move comes up with the President’s Xi Jinping’s plan to build a social credit system based on the principle of once untrustworthy, always restricted, said one of the notices which was signed by eight ministries, including the country’s aviation regulator and the Supreme People’s Court.
The Chinese authorities has flagged plans to roll out a system that will allow all the government bodies to share information on its citizens’ trustworthiness and issue penalties based on a so-called social credit score.
However, there are signs that the use of social credit scoring on domestic transport could have started years ago.
In early 2017, Supreme People’s Court said during a press conference that 6.15 million Chinese citizens had been banned from taking flights for social misdeeds.
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