“Increasingly people across the country cannot live outside the state’s line of sight.”Repeated calls to the Chongqing Public Security Bureau seeking comment from authorities on the rankings were not answered. Taxis in Chongqing older than six years now have to be scrapped and the new models have cameras inside, says Liu. The value of China’s video surveillance equipment market (excluding home video surveillance) reached US$10.6 billion in 2018 and is expected to reach US$20.1 billion in 2023, according to a report by market research firm IDC in August. In 2018, the country accounted for nearly half (45 per cent) of global video surveillance revenue worth US$18.2 billion. Chen Yuan opened a convenience store in 2015 and installed five surveillance cameras inside his 60-square-metre shop.

Source: New Strait Times October 12, 2019 03:11 UTC