Beijing sets up website for public to report gaming company ‘irregularities’ as anti-addiction drive ramps up

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Anyone with a Chinese ID and a mobile phone number can report gaming company irregularities to the regulator through the website. The website appears designed to support last month’s new regulations from Beijing, which limit gaming time for under 18s to one hour per day at weekends.

China’s gaming industry regulator has created a special website that encourages the public to report companies for any violation of state regulations designed to protect kids from video gaming addiction.

Anyone with a Chinese ID and a mobile phone number can report gaming company irregularities to the regulator through the website. Reported irregularities are grouped into three types; whether an online game has fully implemented real name registration requirements; whether an online game has implemented time limits of only three play hours to gamers under 18 each week; and whether an online game has stopped teenagers from spending too much money on it.

The rules, some of the strictest in the world and aimed at preventing gaming addiction among minors, are part of a broad effort by the Chinese authorities to align people’s online activities with the state’s future needs. President Xi Jinping said at a meeting in Beijing in March that teenage addiction to video gaming was a social problem that must be addressed.

 

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