Kim Kyung-Hoon | Reuters
A nurse distributes medicine at Daxing Internet Addiction Treatment Center in Beijing.
These institutions have prospered in recent years amid high demand from parents seeking treatment for their children. But there have been many mainland media reports of the centers using violence, electric shocks or drugs to force teens to change their behavior. Oversight of these institutions is also a grey area.
Under the most recent draft, organisations and individuals cannot abuse or threaten minors during treatment.
Online game firms should also have systems in place to prevent young people becoming addicted to the technology. This includes making the games off limits to minors between midnight and 8am every day and restricting the length of playing time
source”cnbc”
