Ban on online video game playing游戲禁令

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新聞出版署對防止未成年人沉迷網絡游戲的加強管理對未成年人玩網絡游戲的時間實施了新的限制。據報道，未成年人現在每周只能玩三個小時網絡游戲。

China has put in place a new policy that limits online video game playing for young people to three hours a week.The new rules restrict online gaming for those under age 18 to one hour in the evening on Fridays,weekends and public holidays.

The new rules place the responsibility for carrying out the policy on the gaming industry.The limits do not include punishments for individual gamers.

China is the world's largest video gaming market.The Chinese government has worried for years about young people becoming addicted to games.Treatment centers have been set up in the country for people thought to have developed “gaming disorders”.

In 2018,Chinese officials also expressed concerns that gaming might be causing rising rates of eyesight problems among young people.

Chinese state media reported that about 63 percent of Chinese minors(未成年人)play online games often.And about 13 percent of underage mobile game users are believed to play them formore than two hoursa day on weekdays.

Chinese technology company Tencent Holdings took the first step to restrict online gaming for young people in 2017.It limited playing time for some young users of its popular game King of Glory.The move came after concerns from parents and teachers that children were becoming addicted to the game.

The first government restrictions followed in 2019.Those rules limited minors to one hour and a half of gaming time a day and three hours on weekends.The policy also limited the amount of money minors could spend on virtual items in gaming each month.

Current rules require minors to use their real names and national identification numbers when signing in to play.

Hotel manager Li Tong said he thought the new policy would be a good thing for his 14-year-old daughter.“My daughter is glued to her phone after dinner every day for one to two hours and it's difficult for me or her mother to stop her,” Li said.“We told her it's bad for her eyes and it's a waste of her time,but she won't listen.”

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