Rural areas of China’s eastern coastal Shandong Province have installed hundreds of thousands of surveillance cameras since 2013 as a part of its massive monitoring system, initiating a monitoring model which became known as the “Sharp Eyes Project.” The main targets of the system are Falun Gong adherents and rights defenders.
Linyi City in Shandong started installing surveillance cameras in some of its villages, which were connected via cable television to the surveillance platforms of the local police and governments.
By the end of 2017, the number of networked surveillance cameras in Linyi was 360,000, basically achieving “overall coverage” of video surveillance of public places in the city, according to a report of IQilu, a state-run news portal in Shandong, in 2017….