[MUD-Dev] [NEWS][BIZ] China to limit online gaming

[Ghilardi Filippo]

From:

  http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/30/1096401700159.html?oneclick=true

google search reference: china+Commission+of+the+games+online

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China to pick 'healthy' Internet games for the young

Beijing
September 30, 2004 - 1:48PM

China has set up an official body to promote "healthy" online
computer games for young people to play in its popular Internet
cafes, state media said Thursday.

The Professional Commission of Online Games will launch a national
club for game-players and build a server of suitable games, Xinhua
news agency reported. The body will recommend "healthy games to
juveniles as an effort to clean up young people's online
environment," the report said.

It will also rate online games according to their various levels of
"pornography, violence, horror, social morality and cultural
implications," it said.

The growing popularity of the Internet and cyber-cafes is viewed
with concern by the Beijing government, which prefers to keep the
flow of information and recreation activities under tight control.

By 2003, China had 13.8 million on-line game players, with sales of
related products and services amounting to 1.3 billion yuan ($US157
million), Xinhua said.

More than 30 percent of China's 87 million Internet users are
believed to be students and 50 percent are under the age of 24.

Of these younger Internet users, 46 percent visit lewd websites,
according to earlier state reports.

- AFP
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Filippo
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