Shandong is the first Chinese province to set up a social credit system for religious people only. This new program is part of China’s existing “trustworthiness” checks, active since 2018. It uses a special platform where religious citizens earn or lose points based on their behavior. People discussed the policy in a two-day meeting in […]
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