Chinese Communist Party Sets Up VR Technology for Testing Party Members’ Loyalty

A Correctional Services Department officer interacts with a virtual reality training exercise program during a demonstration for the media at the CSD Staff Training Institute in the district of Stanley in Hong Kong on Feb. 27. ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images

The Chinese Communist Party has devised a new high-tech method of testing Party members’ loyalty: using virtual reality.

In the town of Qingyang in Zouping County, Shandong Province, the local authorities have established the country’s first VR center for ensuring that Party members maintain the “Party spirit.”