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Three Hours a Week: Play Time’s Over for China’s Young Video Gamers

Three Hours a Week: Play Time’s Over for China’s Young Video Gamers
People play online games at an internet cafe in Fuyang, Anhui province, China on Aug. 20, 2018. Reuters/Stringer
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8/30/2021|Updated: 8/30/2021
The Chinese regime has forbidden under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours per week, a stringent social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addiction to what it once described as “spiritual opium.”

The new rules, published on Aug. 30, are part of a major shift by Beijing to strengthen control over its society and key sectors of its economy, including tech, education and property, after years of runaway growth.

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