People who cheat on exams or take others’ assigned train seats in Guangzhou will be added to a blacklist under the southern Chinese city’s social credit system, the state-owned Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.

According to the report, Guangzhou lawmakers on Friday approved a policy outlining the blacklist — intended to censure wrongdoers but not punish them otherwise — as part of an effort to crack down on undesirable behaviors like cheating on national- or provincial-level tests and disrupting public transit, as well as to curb crimes like fraud and tax evasion. Local authorities also aim to make the city’s current social credit system, which contains over 1 billion “pieces of data,” more comprehensive and tightly regulated, Xinhua said.

In 2014, China’s Cabinet unveiled plans for a nationwide social credit system, from which initiatives like Guangzhou’s have emerged. In 2018, another rule intended to strengthen the social credit system prohibited badly behaved travelers from buying tickets for the country’s planes and trains. (Image: VCG)