Surveillance infrastructure in China: Key concepts and mechanisms enhancing the Party-state’s governance ambitions

Surveillance infrastructure in China monitors and enables authorities to react potential risky, miscreant or criminal behaviour. What type of behaviours are perceived be so, is determined large part by ideology. Therefore, surveillance relies on the machinery ideology define boundaries its use. In this paper, we outline six key ideological concepts relating governance Xi Jinping’s that have helped expand surveillance. We identify terms embedded promotional material Hikvision other technology firms as a springboard for conceptual discussion. The aim survey lexicon position within Party-state’s broad capacity-building ambitions Xi’s China. This positioning amplifies political responsibility state, social market actors work together broaden activities ‘society-building’ purposes, ultimately realisation goal National Rejuvenation.