This is a blatant behavior modification program that will eventually get teeth when users are punished for making the wrong choices. Canadian leaders love China and its implementation of Technocracy, so now social scoring apps are showing up across Canada.
Already heavily embedded in Technocracy, China has zero ethical problems with using technology for any conceivable advantage to its own cause. Technocracy prepares society for scientific dictatorship while Transhumanism prepares humanity to live in a Technocracy.
The plea for cashless society is always preceded by glowing benefits. China is the world's largest and first big model of Technocracy, and as an authoritarian state, it can force whatever it wants down its citizens throat. A dictatorship is always the shortest path to Technocracy, and even in 1933, early Technocrats called for FDR to declare himself dictator in order to summarily implement it. Those who do not understand Technocracy cannot recognize China as anything other than a Communist dictatorship.
The grass was not greener on the other side of the ocean, and turns out to be a cheap plastic imitation. Companies are not looking for cheaper labor markets since it is cheaper to invest in robotics right where they are. This trend will hit the west like a ton of bricks over time. Read the entire story and pull out the displacement numbers for China alone.
As a maturing Technocracy, China is following the prescribed course of action to control carbon and hence, energy. The carbon trading market has thus far failed in every instance, but that does not deter scientists who are certain that the 'science is settled'.
China is happy to bypass Washington to talk directly with fellow Marxist Jerry Brown, who has gone to Beijing as the self-described "envoy for humanity". The U.S. Constitution forbids states from making deals with foreign governments, but Brown openly scorns the Constitution and the Republic form of government that it guarantees.
California will tackle Global Warming and carbon mitigation all by itself as its Governor seeks to make his own deal with China. There is little wonder why some Californians refer to their own state as the 'PROC' - People's Republic of California.
Pandora's Box has been opened as Microsoft caves to China's demands for full control over encryption and telemetry. This allows China a 'back door' to spy on everyone and every thing in its society. China is an autocratic Technocracy that is consumed with the micro-managed engineering of its entire society. Now, other nations will demand that Microsoft build 'back door' versions for them as well, and you can bet that the U.S. will be at the head of that line.
China's call for a "global intercontinental energy system that will unite the electric power networks of the whole world" is identical to the Global Energy Network Institute's (GENI) ''energy web" or "Internet of Energy." I covered the global smart grid in Chapter 8 of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation in 2015. Control over energy production and consumption is a prime directive of Technocracy as a means to control all economic activity.