‘Worse than doing time’: life on the wrong side of China’s social credit system

David Kong felt shattered after a recent business trip to Chongqing. It took him more than 30 hours to travel to the city from Beijing, on a hard sleeper known in China as the “green-skin train” for its distinctive dark olive hue. The same 900-mile journey would have taken just three hours by air, or about 12 hours by high-speed train. But Kong could not take either, as he was a “deadbeat.”
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