[Breitbart] The Communist Party of China (CPC) is boasting of over 100 smartphone applications designed to allow senior party members to more accurately track their underlings’ loyalty, based in part on how much communist propaganda the individual consumes on the app.The Chinese state newspaper Global Times notes that these apps "place additional pressure on members to properly and timely show their loyalty and enthusiasm for the Party." Party members can be reprimanded if their superior notices they have not been interacting with other party members, reading speeches by president Xi Jinping, or taking online communism classes often enough through the app. The article notes that those who excel and indoctrinate themselves with the apps may be eligible for prizes such as pens and notebooks.
The apps offer a variety of indoctrination media aside from Xi’s speeches, according to the Global Times‐among these quizzes to hone knowledge of Maoist thought and broader classes on communist philosophy with required homework.
"The apps not only provide online classes to learn Party doctrines, but also enable users to pay their CPC membership fees or socialize with each other," the Times adds. "More importantly, the apps will help the CPC evaluate the performance of their nearly 90 million members in a visible, traceable and interactive manner."
The article provides a number of reasons for there being so many apps, including the use of separate apps for different regional Communist Party structures, different features‐like paying Communist Party dues‐and different developers. They are all being organized under an umbrella project called "China’s Good Party Member."