(CNN) Five Chinese airlines announced on Monday that they'll start putting restrictions on "uncivilized passengers," according to China's National Tourism Administration.

The five airlines -- Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Spring Airlines -- said in a joint statement that unruly passenger behaviors disrupting airline operations that resulted in administrative and criminal penalties will be recorded into a new list.

Those passengers whose behaviors are recorded in the list will face certain restrictions on their services, the airlines said.

The airlines said they'll also set up a new mechanism to share those recorded unruly passenger behaviors with airline and tourism authorities.

The move is an apparent attempt to improve tarnished images of Chinese air passengers due to occasional rowdy behaviors, as reported by CNN in the past.

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