The Chinese social credit system is largely a myth. It was a thing that got instituted city by city and was originally intended to be something like the Better Business Bureau or the FICO credit score in the US, but after a few cities used it to justify punishing individuals instead of championing good business it got rolled back in most places, with a new edict from the central government that such systems must never be used for punishment or restriction. Most Chinese have never had a “social credit score” and it was never a nationally-managed program.