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In May 2020, Chinese investigative media group Caixin reported that business social credit systems in China were insufficient in deterring problematic business activities and that the social credit system was easy to game in favour of businesses. [110] China's Social Credit System has been implicated in a number of controversies.
China has a much lower rate of credit use than developed markets. [4]: 67 As a result, it lacks the associated credit reports. [4]: 67 Zhima Credit was introduced on 28 January 2015. It was the first credit agency in China to use a score system for individual users, using both online and offline information. [5]
A Unified Social Credit Identifier is issued to registered companies and other types of organization by the Chinese government. It is "unified" in the sense that it is used both as the business registration number with the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) and as the taxpayer identifier with the State Taxation Administration (STA).
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Social credit may refer to: Social credit, a distributive philosophy of political economy Canadian social credit movement; Social Credit System, a Chinese national credit rating and blacklist system; Social Credit Board (1937–1948), a committee in Alberta, Canada
Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed in the 1920s and 1930s by C. H. Douglas.Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made them.
In 2019, the South China Morning Post reported that the Beijing Subway would also begin sorting passengers using facial recognition based on information pulled from the social credit system and criminal offending databases. Commuters who exhibited anti-social behavior or had previous bad credit scores would also be penalized under the system. [127]
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