Social Credit System in China

Occupation: Head, Center for Contemporary China Studies
Affiliation: Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: 32, Nakhimovsky prospect, Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation

Liubov Afonina

Occupation: Research Officer
Affiliation: Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: 32, Nakhimovsky prospect, Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation

Journal name

Problemy Dalnego Vostoka

Edition

Issue 3

Pages

125-142

Abstract

China's emerging nationwide social credit system is aimed at collecting and analyzing data on enterprises and individuals in order to assess the economic and social consequences of their activities, civic qualities, responsibility, and financial reliability. The preventive digital system for regulating public life looks like a continuation of China's social experiments in the second half of the 20th century. However, this time social engineering uses technical means that were previously unknown and devoid of the shortcomings of subjective assessment and application under the conditions of given parameters. Digitalization, therefore, has offered another tool for assessing social behavior — an additional control system based on strict mathematical principles and, importantly, in contrast to legal ones, operating in real time. In its regulatory function, it is comparable to moral norms, morality.

Keywords

Social credit system, social rating system, social credit, digitalization, China, CCP, State system, social experiment, Chinese political model, Public Administration

Received

03.06.2023

Publication date

28.06.2023

Number of characters

47307

Cite

GOST	Vinogradov A., Afonina L. Social Credit System in China // Problemy Dalnego Vostoka – 2023. – Issue 3 C. 125-142 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://pdv.jes.su/S013128120026254-0-1 (circulation date: 07.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013128120026254-0
MLA	Vinogradov, Andrey, Afonina, Liubov "Social Credit System in China." Problemy Dalnego Vostoka 3 (2023):125-142. DOI: 10.31857/S013128120026254-0
APA	Vinogradov A., Afonina L. (2023). Social Credit System in China. Problemy Dalnego Vostoka (3), pp.125-142 DOI: 10.31857/S013128120026254-0

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