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China’s Bureaucrats Are Increasingly Judged on What They Do After Work

For Chinese bureaucrats, getting a promotion isn’t just tied to their performance on the job -- it’s increasingly about how well they behave in their leisure time. For Chinese bureaucrats, getting a promotion isn’t just tied to their performance on the job -- it’s increasingly about how well they behave in their leisure time. Last month, the southeast city of Quanzhou became the latest to start rating civil servants’ personal behavior. Earlier Wenzhou -- a commercial hub in the east -- began equally weighting behavior at work and at home for promotions and other rewards. The coastal city Zhoushan also keeps files on the so-called social credit of public servants to assess them. China is increasing pressure on its public...