The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) epidemic control and lockdown measures are becoming increasingly restrictive and this includes on college campuses across China. Most recently, a college in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province, introduced a new policy that pays students $740 each time they report on a classmate leaving the campus without permission. Offering students a reward to spy on each other distracts them from their studies and incites distrust, fear, and anger between them.
An article published on May 15 by The Paper, a CCP newspaper, described a new effort by the Fashion School in Henan Institute of Engineering to prevent students from leaving its campus. School administrators posted a notice on May 11 announcing that students who report other students climbing over the campus enclosure wall would be “rewarded” $740. Students who climb over the wall will be expelled or persuaded to leave the school, and those who fail to report them will be placed on probation.
