EP34 Hot Issue - Strict limitation on online gaming for below 18 in China

About 62.5% of Chinese minors often play games online, and 13.2% of underage mobile game users play mobile games for more than two hours a day on weekdays, according to state media. Psychiatrists are seeing more cases of young patients who are hooked on gadgets such as smartphones, tablets and computers and manifesting signs of Internet gaming addiction (IGA) or Internet gaming disorder, and anxiety disorder comorbid major depressive disorder (MDD). China has since barred online gamers under the age of 18 from playing on weekdays and limited their play to just three hours most weekends.