China Is Rewarding Its Best-Behaved Citizens With Cheaper Travel
- Authorities aim to boost tourism using social credit system
- Companies with good scores are being offered cheaper loans
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As China seeks to shore up its faltering economy, officials are rewarding citizens with travel discounts and offering companies cheaper loans — but only for the best behaved.
China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced plans to widen a pilot injecting stimulus into the tourism sector still in its nascent post-Covid recovery, using a controversial social credit system that rewards good deeds and punishes misbehavior.