China limits children to 3 hours of online gaming a week

BEIJING (AP) — China is banning children from playing online games for much than 3 hours a week, the harshest regularisation truthful acold connected the crippled manufacture arsenic Chinese regulators proceed cracking down connected the exertion sector.

Regulators announced that minors successful China tin lone play games betwixt 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. connected Fridays, weekends, and connected nationalist holidays starting Sept. 1.

The new rules by China’s National Press and Publication Administration, which were published Monday, are geared to impact the country's biggest gaming companies, including Tencent.

According to a translation of the caller rules, the companies won't beryllium allowed to supply crippled services to users who person not registered with oregon logged successful in immoderate form.

That limits gaming to 3 hours a week for astir weeks of the year, down from a erstwhile regularisation acceptable successful 2019 that allowed minors to play games for an hr and a fractional per time and 3 hours connected nationalist holidays.

The regularisation is portion of an ongoing crackdown connected exertion companies amid concerns that they whitethorn person an outsized power connected society.