When these two puzzle pieces are joined, the picture of a society stratified and surveyed from cradle to grave, mirroring the Chinese model becomes unmistakably clear. The government’s plan to build an “elite human resources” program evokes the concept of state-directed class filtering. Citizens are placed into state filters from the start, selecting who is deemed a “red seed” for special treatment.
As these individuals mature, they fall into a second net: the MPS’s citizen scoring system via the VNeID application. The proposal to classify citizens as “positive,” “basic,” or “unranked” completes a closed loop of control.
