On Monday Shenzhen's Futian District government published an article on their official WeChat account revealing the names, photos and ID numbers of 50 local residents apparently judged guilty of unpaid debts.
Although individual misdemeanors aren't specified, the post begins by listing a few behaviors of "deadbeats" who don't pay up – "playing dumb, showing no signs, getting fake divorces, transferring property, violently resisting...... resorting to every possible means."
The article then goes on to reveal identifying details of all 50 guilty parties, including the amount each owes and the number of his or her court case.
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The move is apparently intended to shame debtors as well as discourage dishonest behaviors, and falls in line with the stated goals of China's social credit system, slated to launch nationwide by 2020.
Already, some regions and private companies have enacted their own credit schemes, from Alibaba's Sesame Credit to the county-level city of Rongcheng, Shandong province. In the various trial systems underway, 'losing credit' by evading taxes, acting up on planes or trains and even jaywalking can get you slapped with travel restrictions or blocked from getting jobs, Business Insider reported in May.
According to the Futian District government article, as of the end of June 12.2 million have been prohibited from buying plane tickets and 4.6 million blocked from high-speed trains across China. In addition, 280,000 were reportedly prevented from becoming legal representatives, directors, supervisors and executives of domestic companies.
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Although Shenzhen still lacks a citywide credit system, this isn't the first time identifying information of debtors in Futian has been released publicly: besides a late May roundup of 38 names, photos and more on Futian Court's official website, online archives show the full names of 'discredited civil debtors' from cases dating as far back as 2007.
Also stored online are verdicts against debtors that contain individual names and addresses as well as punishments, including prohibitions against leaving the country, booking business-class seats on planes and trains, enrolling children in expensive private schools and traveling for vacation, among other things.
[Top image via Xingfu Futian]
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