China says it's solved youth game addiction, previously described as 'spiritual opium'
The country's top industry body made the announcement yesterday,reported, following the introduction of a draconian set of rules which restricted anyone in the country under the age of 18 from playing video games longer than three hours in any typical week.
This crackdown has achieved"remarkable results", the China Game Industry Group Committee data provider CNG said, with more than 75 percent of all under-18s now claimed to be following the rules.The announcement is likely to be welcomed by China's gaming sector, and may suggest there are no current plans for a further crackdown on young people playing games.
25 percent of China's population aged under-18 evading the rules to play games longer than their government's limits is still a lot of people - but it is a lower figure than
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