China to step up work on national social credit system

The central government will take more steps to improve data quality and speed up the legislation process as part of its efforts to create a nationwide social credit system, officials said.

"Basic infrastructural construction of the social credit system has been done at the central and local levels. More efforts will be put on improving data quality and enhancing cooperation with different regulators and on legislation, the last of which may take several years or longer to accomplish," said an official with the National Development and Reform Commission who is in charge of drafting the guidelines.

Unveiled in 2014, the framework for a national social credit system is already in place, and the government aims to get the remaining work done by 2020.