social credit system
Sign in to savenational reputation system being developed by the Chinese government
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It is catalogued under topics including Credit scoring, Data and Finance in China.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Simplified chinese
- 社会信用体系
- Traditional chinese
- 社會信用體系
- Hanyu pinyin
- shèhuì xìnyòng tǐxì
- Wade giles
- she -hui hsin -yung t'i -hsi
- Ipa
- [ʂɤ ̂ .xwe ̂ ɪ ɕi ̂ n.iʊ ̂ ŋ tʰi ̀ .ɕi ̂ ]
- Yale romanization
- séh-wuí seun-yuhng tái-haih
- Jyutping
- se5 wui2 seon3 jung6 tai2 hai6
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- credit bureau
- Subclass of
- surveillance
- Country
- China
- Official website
- credit.gz.gov.cn
- Image
- SZ 深圳 Shenzhen 南山區 Nanshan 愛榕路 Airong Road November 2019 IX2 10.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
The social credit system (Chinese: 社会信用体系; pinyin: shèhuì xìnyòng tǐxì) is a national credit rating and blacklist implemented by the government of the People's Republic of China. The social credit system is a broad governance strategy to track businesses, individuals, and government institutions and enhance their perceived trustworthiness rather than a single system. It is based on varying degrees of whitelisting (termed "redlisting" in China) and blacklisting. There have been widespread misconceptions in media reports about a unified social credit "score" based on individuals' behavior, leading to punishments if the score is too low or rewards if the score is high.
The origin of the concept can be traced back to the 1980s when the Chinese government attempted to develop a personal banking and financial credit rating system, especially for rural individuals and small businesses who lacked documented records. The program first emerged in the early 2000s, inspired by the credit scoring systems in other countries. The program initiated regional trials in 2009, before launching a national pilot with eight credit scoring firms in 2014. By 2023, most private social credit initiatives had been shut down by the PBOC, as the central government has been re-centralizing the score system.
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