National law required to prevent abuse of social credit system

NATIONAL LEVEL REGULATIONS are required to avoid abuse of credit punishment measures and safeguard individuals' legal rights and interests, Southern Metropolis Daily comments:

At a recent news conference, Meng Wei, the spokesperson for the National Development and Reform Commission, said that promoting the social credit system should always abide by the laws and regulations and be reasonable and appropriate, in order to avoid any abuse of the system and excessive expansion of credit investigations and punishment measures.

Since the State Council, China's Cabinet, issued the Outline for the Social Credit System Construction Plan (2014-20) in June 2014, there have been widespread concerns about the possibility of the system being abused. The construction of social credit system, especially the punishment mechanism for discredited behavior, is playing a growing role in regulating market order and promoting integrity and keeping promises.