Mr. Dai concluded that a public CRS model was a better fit with the Chinese reality: “The development of Chinese credit markets is relatively backward. The individual credit report must be very simple, as most Chinese are like me and do not have much credit or loan information. This is so different from the American system, and therefore it is more efficient for us to adopt a public centralized system.” He also believed that the PBC was the only institution in China with enough power and credibility to push forward the collection of individual credit data. He explained, “If we adopted an American private model, different firms would have different channels to interact with banks. The collected information might become inconsistent and problems would occur.”