Facial recognition and bathtime bookings: How China's universities are reopening

BEIJING - As Covid-19 cases in China sink to new lows, the world's largest population of university students is heading back to campus in a migration defined by lockdowns, patriotic education and cutting-edge surveillance equipment.

"But they haven't yet told us the specific application process or what reasons will be considered reasonable," said one student at Beijing's Renmin University.A notice on its social media account confirmed students must apply to leave campus. On Chinese social media, students have chafed at the controls, which mirror restrictions on the wider population during the height of the outbreak in March.

HI-TECH SURVEILLANCE Procurement documents posted online in the past two months by dozens of Chinese universities give insight into campus life in the Covid era, detailing technology systems designed to bar outsiders and collect students' data. "It's like someone is watching you from when you wake up to when you go to sleep," said another Peking University student surnamed Mei, who found cameras in her dorm when she returned this month.One system at the University of Science and Technology Liaoning cost 429,000 yuan and uses cutting-edge facial-recognition temperature cameras that can spot people without masks, bidding documents show.

A system at Tianjin Normal University collects details on students' families, the addresses of places they visit off campus and how they get to the university.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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