Grid-style social management in China

Grid-style social management (Chinese: 社会网格化管理; pinyin: Shèhuì Wǎnggé Huà Guǎnlǐ) is a mass surveillance system used in China for what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) terms "stability maintenance." Launched in 2004, grid-style social management covers all of China. The grid-style social management process consists in subdividing a country's counties into smaller zones, and assign each zone to a person that reports all activity to the local government on a regular basis.

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