China set to crack down on dishonest behaviour

China has concluded plans to launch a campaign to crack down and eliminate unethical or dishonest behaviour in response to the lack of integrity in various economic and social areas of public concern.

According to a statement from the Central Commission for Guiding Ethics and Cultural Progress on Monday, the campaign targets problems including telecom and Internet fraud, falsification of poverty-alleviation projects, plagiarised or falsified published papers.

Others are cheating on workplace examinations, and the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports, according to the statement.

In addition to the campaign, China also aims to implement its social credit system by 2020.

The system strives to use a credit mechanism that combines rewards with punishments to foster a good social atmosphere and promote integrity within the country.

“More efforts should be made to promote the construction of the credit system, set up credit records in all areas, establish a credit information network covering the whole society, and improve the publicity mechanism of the credit information,’’ the commission said.