Monthly Archives: March 2019

Recently, the Communist Youth League Central Committee (CYLCC) launched a big-data credit app in partnership with the State-owned Tsinghua Unigroup. People with good scores can enjoy preferential treatment in education and employment. Analysts believe this is another attempt to control young people’s behavior.

The app is called Unictown. It is available for free download at the Apple Store. Each user of the app receives a credit score between 350 and 800. The user may be entitled to tuition discounts or preferential treatment in job hunting.

Citing the South China Morning Post, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported that, unlike the three credit rating companies in the United States, Unictown gathers and analyses a huge amount of non-economic and non-financial data. Academic publications, inventions, and volunteer activities may increase the user’s rating, while cheating on exams and plagiarism may lower his rating.

Analysts believe that this is nothing but the digitalized version of the personnel files that the Chinese Government has on everyone in China which follow a citizen all of his life. Online postings critical of the Chinese Government will likely lead Unictown users to have lower credit scores.

Unictown is said to be one of the products in the China Youth Credit Management (CY Credit) system that CYLCC and Tsinghua Unigroup have established. CY Credit is expected to cover all Chinese between the ages of 18 and 45, estimated at around 460 million.

Source: Radio Free Asia, March 25, 2019
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/meiti/xql-03252019104215.html

Recently, China reestablished an alliance of nine colleges, called the “Yanhe University Talent Training Alliance,” in order to inherit and perpetuate the Yan’an red DNA {a generic name for Communism}. It refers to the Yan’an period of Chinese communism’s education concept (1936-1949) when the party set up nine universities and training institutions for the next generation of Chinese officials and leaders. Therefore, it is called the “red DNA college.”

The Beijing Institute of Technology first initiated the concept of the “Yanhe Alliance.” In addition to the Beijing Institute of Technology, the other eight Chinese universities joining the alliance are Renmin University of China, China Agricultural University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, the Central Conservatory of Music, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Central Academy of Drama, the Central University for Nationalities, and Yan’an University.

A report stated that the nine colleges and universities had spread the fire of the Chinese revolution to the whole country. Today, they gathered together again to reestablish the alliance, to continue the “Yanhe Soul,” to promote the “red heart knot,” {and to carry on the work of “nurturing the next generation.}”

Beijing’s independent scholar Cha Jianguo said on Tuesday (the 19th) in an interview with Radio Free Asia, that the nine universities in the alliance were established in Yan’an, Shaanxi Province: “They want to inherit the red DNA. Now the Chinese Communist Party has fully indoctrinated the mainland. The education system has been indoctrinated, strengthening the party’s leadership, with everything revolving around the party’s tasks. This is part of the party’s national indoctrination. These nine schools may have to take the lead.”

Source: Radio Free Asia, March 19, 2019
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/kejiaowen/ql1-03192019101444.html

Xinhua reported that Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, presided over the 7th meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensive Deepening Reform, reaffirming the push for the implementation of major reform measures.

The meeting also called for “solidifying grassroots Party organizations and reorganizing the weak and lax rural Party organizations.”  The 7th meeting passed several Party directives including the “Guidance on Strengthening and Improving Rural Governance.”

That is, the meeting emphasized strengthening and improving rural governance.  It is necessary to establish a modern rural social governance system that the Communist Party heads, to solidify a strong grassroots Party organization, to reorganize weak and lax rural Party organizations, and to appoint strong leaders to the rural Party organizations.

The Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission, formerly known as the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms is a policy formulation and implementation body set up under the Politburo of the Communist Party of China in charge of “Comprehensively Deepening Reforms.”

Source: Xinhua, March 19, 2019
http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/leaders/2019-03/19/c_1124255626.htm