Innovative society: a social credit system in China

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author: W. Gao

Urgency of the research. Considerable state support for scientific and technological research, their testing and implementation into social practice gives grounds to evaluate modern Chinese society as innovative. Significant social transformations take place at all levels of socio-political life: from management practices and strategies to the ordinary daily activities of citizens. The biggest resonance is the implementation of the Social Credit System (SCS) as a nationwide program for the implementation of educational and monitoring function. This experience is exemplary and significant for the study of an innovative society.

Target settings. The Chinese government positions its country's policies as open and democratic. But there is a reason to believe that this assessment is somewhat biased, since China is an economically successful socialist state against the backdrop of global world capitalism. Therefore, the research and analytics of the innovative society in China, especially

in view of the total government program of the Social Credit System (SCS), is an important problem of modern social philosophy and humanitarian knowledge in general.

Analysis of recent research and publications. An analysis of recent publications on the problem of research shows that the problem of innovative society in China is a pressing issue for modern humanities. Thus, Yongnian Zheng (2010) argues that the main driver of change in the social transformation of modern China is its openness policy. Xiao Ying (2015) proposes to change the methodology of China's innovative society analytics. Unlike the traditional categories of state and society, the author proposes to introduce the concepts of institutions and life. Another researcher Gladys Pak Lei Chong (2019) points out that post-socialist China is consumer oriented, so Social Credit Systems are evolving as a government program on an economic platform. Zhuo Huang, Yang Lei & Shihan Shen (2016) explore the development of a Chinese government-oriented personal credit reporting system. Donghee (Don) Shin (2019) considers widespread implementation of algorithms as the basis for the development of an innovative society in China.

The research objective. The main objective of the article is to analyze the implementation of the government program of the Social Credit System (SCS) in China's innovation society.

The statement of basic material. The basic principles of SCS

implementation are as follows: Formation of sustainable social structure and its operational management; Monitoring and correction of social transformations and behavior of the general population: transparency as a major factor in the life of an innovative society; Stimulating competition as a motivation for success. Due to the transparency of social life, different patterns of behavior in different conditions are published in the information space of the society. Accordingly, actionable life scenarios are made available to the general public, which is fulfilling an educational mission regarding adaptation mechanisms in an innovative society; the SCS system is a significant component of the national strategy of integration and consolidation of the Chinese innovation society; carrying out soft- policy foreign policy: The positive experience of the Chinese innovation society in implementing SCS is a prerequisite for expanding its area of application in Asian, African and Latin American countries, especially the countries participating in the One Belt One Road project. SCS covers all spheres of social life of the modern Chinese citizen, forms a sustainable form of accountability to the society for the content and flow of their daily activities, aspirations and preferences.

Conclusions. China’s innovative society is illustrative and significant for today's social transformation. The Chinese state's experience in implementing technical and managerial innovations is advanced and unique in nature. Particular attention should be paid to the study of the features of implementation of the Social Credit

System. Such a state strategy for building an innovative society is aimed not only at supporting the stability of the socio-political system of modern China, but also at providing the necessary direction for the development of the state and society, social institutions and the content of daily practices.

Key words: innovative society, Social Credit System, monitoring, “Chinese Dream”.

 

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